ny300exrider
06-18-2007, 02:18 PM
heres the scoop(its gonna be long)
i sold my 05 450r about a month or so ago to some 25 year old kid. it had a bunch of real good mods, including a set of freshly rebuilt elka shocks and a rebuilt stock rear that i bought from a member on here. i rode with the new suspension for a good 2-3 weeks and loved it....felt the difference from before to after big time....
i bought the quad new, never had ONE problem with it, never crashed it once, never flipped, no motor trouble, ALWAYS MAINTAINED. the quad was my baby.
so this kid calls me up yesterday while im at a family party and tells me i sold him a peice of chit and he's pissed. he said the first time he rode the quad "through his backyard" both rear rims fell off the hub because"i had the lugnuts on backwards". well for one, when you get itp rims your supposed to flip the lugs flat..i know it for a fact...he goes NO, the dealership told me your supposed to keep the lugs with the taper in so they dig into the rim....yea makes a ton of sense, i know im right.
anyway here comes the doozie. he tells me he drove 6hrs upstate to go riding with his buds, second time on the quad, took it off the trailor, rode it through a feild, and the rear shock exploded into 10 peices......i rode this shock through woop sections and sandpits and never ever had a problem. then he goes on to tell me one of the front elkas was leaking oil so he drives 6hrs back home, takes the front shocks to the dealer, they send the shocks back to elka, and elka says the shocks were blown and were never even rebuilt. i know for a fact they were indeed rebuilt because i friggen rode them....now hes *****in at me that he has to keep dropping money into the quad and he hasnt even ridden it. weird how i rode for 2 1/2 years without a single problem and he rides it "through a feild" and the wheels fall off and all 3 shocks blow out. he tells me to mail him the invoice showing i had the shocks done because he thinks i scammed him into buying a quad with blown suspension....i had the shocks done over 2-3 months ago and threw out all that crap after i sold it.
what would you guys do?
i know its tempting to tell him to pound sand and stop calling....i made sure to include as-is on the bill of sale and he knows that so it really isnt even my problem.
i will give him the number to the place that did the shocks, but im sure they will tell him they cant do anything anyway....
this kid pulled up to my house in a 70k f250 lifted to the sky and spent 20min boasting about all of his toys and this and that, and hes calling me cursing that he had to spend $130 to get the shocks from elka
the joys of living on long island...even fellow riders are pricks
i sold my 05 450r about a month or so ago to some 25 year old kid. it had a bunch of real good mods, including a set of freshly rebuilt elka shocks and a rebuilt stock rear that i bought from a member on here. i rode with the new suspension for a good 2-3 weeks and loved it....felt the difference from before to after big time....
i bought the quad new, never had ONE problem with it, never crashed it once, never flipped, no motor trouble, ALWAYS MAINTAINED. the quad was my baby.
so this kid calls me up yesterday while im at a family party and tells me i sold him a peice of chit and he's pissed. he said the first time he rode the quad "through his backyard" both rear rims fell off the hub because"i had the lugnuts on backwards". well for one, when you get itp rims your supposed to flip the lugs flat..i know it for a fact...he goes NO, the dealership told me your supposed to keep the lugs with the taper in so they dig into the rim....yea makes a ton of sense, i know im right.
anyway here comes the doozie. he tells me he drove 6hrs upstate to go riding with his buds, second time on the quad, took it off the trailor, rode it through a feild, and the rear shock exploded into 10 peices......i rode this shock through woop sections and sandpits and never ever had a problem. then he goes on to tell me one of the front elkas was leaking oil so he drives 6hrs back home, takes the front shocks to the dealer, they send the shocks back to elka, and elka says the shocks were blown and were never even rebuilt. i know for a fact they were indeed rebuilt because i friggen rode them....now hes *****in at me that he has to keep dropping money into the quad and he hasnt even ridden it. weird how i rode for 2 1/2 years without a single problem and he rides it "through a feild" and the wheels fall off and all 3 shocks blow out. he tells me to mail him the invoice showing i had the shocks done because he thinks i scammed him into buying a quad with blown suspension....i had the shocks done over 2-3 months ago and threw out all that crap after i sold it.
what would you guys do?
i know its tempting to tell him to pound sand and stop calling....i made sure to include as-is on the bill of sale and he knows that so it really isnt even my problem.
i will give him the number to the place that did the shocks, but im sure they will tell him they cant do anything anyway....
this kid pulled up to my house in a 70k f250 lifted to the sky and spent 20min boasting about all of his toys and this and that, and hes calling me cursing that he had to spend $130 to get the shocks from elka
the joys of living on long island...even fellow riders are pricks