So they basically stated: “We’re aware that you guys saw the video, and after consulting with a lawyer, they told us that we have no legal grounds to do anything. With that being said, we don’t care what Strad said, and will continue with our normal business as if nothing ever happened. Oh, side note, these 5 liter Gallardo are garbage, it’s not our fault that it broke. You can even go ask other shops!” Very pathetic response to be honest. They’d gain a lot more respect back if they just admit their faults and try to make everything right.
it’s also very pathetic for everyone to target a company for a build that has taken this long, if it was easy like the huracans it would’ve been finished ages ago but it’s not, nobody actually knows what’s gone on, they might have messed up, stradman might’ve messed up, it’s all speculation.
@@thegamingnoob4368most gallardo twin turbo projects take barely a month or two longer. Doesn’t excuse anything, yes they’re more difficult, but the extent of what BRogue put strad through is completely absurd, 4 years, 50k, for a car that came to his house broken.
@@thegamingnoob4368 It’s also extremely pathetic for a company that specializes in this kind of stuff to not only take on more than they could handle, but then also take zero accountability for their poor work. B-Rouge did this to themselves. James would even defend their name when people in the comments were bashing them for how they were taking.
@@jacobsmith6437 so if you sent your car away knowing most gallardos take a month or two and it takes 4 years, you wouldn’t just take your car back and tell them you don’t want their business anymore? it’s not like they’re holding his car hostage, he could’ve taken the car at any time and paid someone else to do it, there’s things on both sides is all i was saying and again, nobody knows the full truth.
@@TwilightsPurple let’s say you’re right, they messed up very badly and don’t want to admit it, do you still get the full story? no you don’t, like i said to someone else who replied to my comment, strad could’ve taken his car back at any time, after 4 years you don’t think you’d have enough of not having the car yet.
B-rough is in a bad state..it took them 3 years to come up with excuses on why they couldn't even copy a regular TT Gallardo setup as other shops moved on from that platform. They even call it an outdated platform (in a fancier way) but took the money to DO THE DAMN JOB. It's insulting to me as a nobody, let alone an owner. Hilarious to see how fast they backed off that lawsuit threat.
It's awfully funny this is the third try to get this in they show the vehicle running for under a minute on that video for fifty some-odd thousand dollars you think you get a weekend out of the deal we have one douchebag standing up for the builder that left it up stradmans got every building the country tried to help him out these guys are douches
They have also done TT Gallardo builds in the past. I may be mistaken, but I think they did the Gallardo that blew up Tavarish's channel that had experienced a fire.
Not to slight Mike Essa in any way. He is a drift champion, a great fabricator and a very good mechanic. But that is not a job he would take on. That post by Damon was just an opportunity to grab DDE onto Strads coattail to reach both his followers as well as strads. The smartest thing Damon ever did was bring Dave into the channel. DDE channel would probably never have reached the level it is now without Dave.
B rogue knows they did something wrong otherwise they’d pursue real legal action. If they can’t admit their fault they don’t deserve to do business online or work on cars like that. What a bunch of frauds 🤮
@MrKennyanders not a dumb thing to do even if they didn't do anything wrong because anything put out could be an admission of fault in some manner. Having the lawyer craft that is a great idea to keep you from screwing yourself.
I don't think not pursuing legal action means you are at fault, it's just not worth it for some people. I don't think Stradman is lying here, I just don't think we need to be going around telling people that only guilty people don't sue.
B rogue’s statement is drawn out in saying their lawyers advised they have no grounds which lawsuits could be substantiated. They cannot do anything to Strad, and have realized that it is smarter, business wise moving forward, to put it behind them and act like it didn’t happen in hopes their future work could outgrow their tarnished reputation.
The bottom line is don't take the job if you feel you can't complete the work. As soon as you do you're putting your work, business, and reputation at risk.
they took the job because of all the benefits coming from building 'Strads" car. imagine all the free promotion but now it back fired massively if you cant deliver what is promised.
@@killera119 I’ve been to b rouge before and he didn’t need strademans for free promotion he was already a popular exotic car builder that specializes in lambos that’s the reason strademan sent in his car there in the first place but seeing the car in this state idk what happen that not like nothing they put out.
@@soillgarage5708 but why was the car took this long? Whilst they were building other cars too. Surely you’d think you will be priority if your car have been there for like 4 years. And of course stead would bring them even more business, they took on the challenge for a reason and knowing the difficulty to TT this specific engine. It’s the risk they were willing to take and messed up on, if they couldn’t build it then why not reimburse the money strad had paid them? Or offer any other options
@@killera119 shops like that have builds that takes sometimes a year are more.we had a few that took around 3 years to build but to keep the doors open they do a lot of maintenance jobs that pay pretty well like a clutch they may charge 5k for.We both know money wasn’t a issue but I’m leading to custom parts delayed with covid and the shortage of everything else and for lambos alot of there custom parts comes from oversees like Dubai so you waiting forever but at the end of the day a customer payed for a service and he didn’t deliver
Everyone who watches Strad knows he keeps up on his vehicle maintenance.. especially the fact that he sends his cars to Lamborghini itself.. the trying to cover your behind on that one is wild.
I don't know. He was super unconcerned about the Gallardo long before the 2nd Aventador. He had no complaints. This reeks of the situation with his former editor. I don't know but it isn't my business.
@@TheSycamanHe didn’t bring the Gallardo up unless there were updates because people in the comments would sit there and bash B-Rouge. At the time he was in good standing with them, and honestly seemed more worried about it getting done without parts breaking again.
@@unknwn988 Yes he was! He made sure to let everyone know that things happen and that they were doing their best. Then they come back a year-ish later and basically spit right in his face.
In the Hamilton video, when they were putting the Oscar wrap on the car, there was a shot of the car smoking on crank-up that was discussed in the comments. It was oil smoke, not something you would want in a freshly built car, twin turbos or not, especially considering the reason for the delay was reported to be that the motor needed a full rebuild before it could be delivered to Strad
I think Stradman needs to get the car evaluated to find out exactly what's wrong and what went wrong with it before going any further. Once he knows then the appropriate decisions can be made.
@@michaelroney6108I mean either way if the car was running and stopped due to lack of oil, there’s no reason the trunk latch and e brake should be broken
B rogues knows they don’t have a legal case. Also. Their insta post is full of excuses, trying to pass blame, as they did to James for 4 straight years. B ROGUE took on the project, they said they could do it. They took James’s money. They told him it was done and shipped it to him. We live in a world of people giving excuses. Just own up to the responsibility, the fact that you couldn’t finish the project and delivered a broken car, claiming it was finished and ready to be driven. Again. As a business owner. It blows my mind how customers can be treated so poorly by other business owners. This is absurd.
Nothing but the facts, from the perspective of a viewer all you guys are nothing but genuine, and to see how poorly treated stradman has been , its sickening. also, HI BURLACHER! :D
I am a Lawyer, and BRB is definitely following every single step they have been told by their legal team or anyone, and absolutely Strad have the upper hand here, he *paid* a lot of money for the job the promised to do, and did not want a BS excuse that it’s an old car, and shit, also, the review thing is on point, he can express his views, if the BRB have done a great job then strad would have also reviewed them in any case, and man he legit was so excited for this build, and honestly I thought BRB is doing it for free hence they are taking so much time and free promotion from strad. In summary, BRB is fishy.
I know every time I pay for something, I'd like it 2 years late and totally broken. I don't understand why anyone would be upset with a company doing business like this. I'm sure people will flock to B Rogue for their modifications after this fantastic advertising campaign 🤣
The altitude and temperature didn’t break the decklet hatch or the e brake. The fact that no one flew out there to take care of atrás immediately was very telling.
Man honestly none of this stuff would of happened if b.rogue would of told strad “man sorry to hear that, me and the team will fly out there and check out the car for you” on a weekend when they are closed of course. Just that would have went a long way. But for the owner to ignore him and push him away is VERY VERY unprofessional.
If they were facing so many problems on working with the car, they could have come clean in the start only rather than delaying it for 3 years. Plus all the oil leaks, the broken catch for the rear and the broken e brake.....that truly shows how capable b rogue is
B-Rogue's response, is a "non-response" pretty much telling Strad that you are SOL... But "not because they did anything wrong" ... lmao... they are done
simply put. someone pays you to do a job, you accept it and deliver. if you can’t, offer refund or compensation. they’re a company. no matter the reason, they handled it poorly.
To this response sounds like they know if they sue stradman there are gonna lose is caught hope they go bankrupt after they treated James and his car terribly
When the Hamilton collection was asked in TikTok comments about the B-Rouge builds and Stradman situation they said “They tried to blame the issue on the build shop after they had to push the car into the bay at the wrap shop to be wrapped” They also said they blamed it on the wrap shot for blowing the engine
If B Rogue truly though they built it right, I would assume they would sue him for supposedly lying about the end product, but seeing that they are hesitant to even go after him, its just an admission of guilt, the shop was payed 52k and they rebuilt the engine and installed the twin turbo kit, seeing as they rebuilt the engine and if they did it properly there would be no issues, this could of all been avoided if they didn’t treat it so lightly from the start of January.
I don’t think James will persue this legally. He said he has moved on and is emotionally done with B Rouge. Can’t wait to see who picks up this project
That's just crazy you know Stradman is a high profile public costumer, that if you do great work it will come back 10times once he puts the word out, But if they did do a bad job, it's possibly the end of that business... bad business move
They didn’t even seem to care. They made like one or two “update” videos after they were being bashed in the comments for taking to long and blowing a motor. In those videos it didn’t really seem like this was something they really cared for, he was making excuses like crazy as well. The thing is though, if they didn’t want to do it, or thought they couldn’t, why continue the project?
Ya. Precisely. The only important takeaway from this has no effect on us. But, don't take jobs for youtubers who can ruin your business. It doesn't matter who's at fault anyway. Look at Logan Paul. Biggest scumbag on earth yet still has millions of supporters regardless. Don't take jobs for youtubers unless you have a relationship with them prior. DDE for example. They have great relationships and also turn those businesses into content and also content creators now. Don't ship you stuff, either. A lot can happen after that truck leaves with your car on a 1000 mile trip.
From looking at older videos they did start off well with the twin turbo work but must’ve taken on other projects from the attention they were getting.
Normally when you have "overwhelming" support from customers you dont need to shut off comments on all social medias, or have google remove the review section for your business
@@user-kc8yo9yy7oI mean would you like it if 5000 people told you everything wrong with you? No. Is what they did ok? Also no. But turning comments off doesn’t mean anything others then they are getting too much hate
@@worldofoutlaw1353 they know what they did was wrong they deserve everything coming to them. If I know I’m wrong ab something then imma stand by that idc if I have people telling me whatever
I really can’t understand how B Rogue let this go so far. I have an incredibly small RU-vid channel, but when I run around with a camera businesses definitely tend to take care of me. I couldn’t imagine trying to burn someone with a channel as big as Strads… it really seems like Strad left the door open for months for B Rogue to take care of the car but nothing happened.
If they couldn’t produce what Stradmam PAID them to produce. Then that should’ve been established when he inquired about the build. If the car was indeed running when they shipped it back. Then my next question would be “ HAS ANYONE QUESTIONED THE DELIVERY DRIVER ABOUT DRIVING THAT CAR BEFORE DELIVERING IT BACK TO STRADMAM”????
The delivery driver just dropped it off by truck and left. No BRogue reps were there to even see the car delivered. He paid 52K to have the car that saved his career, destroyed, wrapped and given back to him. Big Oof.
If the car has "nothing but significant problems" why would B-rouge even take on the project? They had no problem taking his money. They delivered a car that would not even stay running and had oil leaks coming from multiple places because of the work they did... That says a lot about them
I think what actually happened was one of the truckers took it out for a spin during transport and blew it up. And the only reason im saying this is because I was a porter for a chicago car hauler for roughly 5 years throughout college. And ive seen numerous different drivers from many different companies tell me how theyd take auction cars, dealer to dealer cars, and shop cars off the truck and test drive them down some back road somewhere. And if they break something on the car, theyd deliver it to them anyway and say thats how the car was given to them. Ive seen it happen numerous times and it always gets on my nerves even to this day.
This could be the case "sometimes" but, not with high end cars! No Shipper or receiver with common sense would fall for THAT! Ever heard of an odometer. That transporting company has to be bonded and insured and if the odometers off and the car has problems, who you think is paying? C'mon man!
@@Johnny-mi5np A lot things can happen. The odometer is hard to track, especially after dyno/test runs. I don't know who sent the delivery truck but if it's B-roke then it's still their fault. They probably hired some bottom of the barrel service.
And in that process, broke the e-brake, broke the engine hatch, spilled oil on the engine and caused it to leak? This in your view is the most likely explanation of "what actually happened"????
Unacceptable. I would say they need to make this right, but I wouldn’t trust them with that car ever again. Such a shame. Strad’s first supercar. He loved that thing. I’m surprised he’s not raising more hell about this, it’s pretty big of him not to.
Simplified situation: dude took a car to get work done at a shop that said they could do it, they tried, charged him $52,000, still didn’t work and there were other issues with the car aside from the engine. As a business, you have a responsibility to do everything you can to make sure your work is done and done right before it leaves to the customer. Otherwise you need to be honest about it and say “look, we can’t get it figured out, we’re sorry.” And give something of a refund. BRogue has no leg to stand on. Unless Strad legitimately destroyed the car as soon as he got it, they deserve every bit of flak they’ll catch from this.
So, help me understand. B-Rogue KNEW that this was a RISKY project from jump, they knew the car's age and hard-to-find parts, and STILL agreed to do the project? That fourth paragraph statement alone puts them in an even hotter seat. RIP
*B-Rogue's statement contradicts itself because they said they're not at fault because the Lambo is an older car, yet they charged Stradman as if they knew what they were doing for a couple years. James is only mad because he's paid them to essentially destroy his car. If they weren't confident, they should've let James know before they took his money and destroyed his car.*
What BRogue said about turboing 5l gallardo is kinda true . But they completely ignored plethora of other things wrong with the car after it had left their shop . Like disconnected E brake or the massive oil spill on the engine .
even if stards car is in working running order leaving the shop, that doesnt explain the broken trunk strut, broken ebrake, and why there is oil leaking in the engine bay. I do agree though that the less said the better for B rouge probably because they know they messed up, also just because a car is hard to work on doesn't mean that you return it broken after over 3 years and expect it to be fine.
B-Rogue just basically admitted that they weren't going to be able to do a good job from the beginning when they said other people have also talked about the problems with "these 5 liter cars". If you couldn't do it, just say it and you wouldn't have wasted time, money, and resources. Additionally, James already has such a strong case in the form of a video. Just imagine the case in-person if it escalates to that level.
B Rogue had the damn car for almost three years. That says all there needs to be said. But yeah, I could see where the weather and altitude could break the e brake and leave oil all over the engine bay as well. SMH
So a breakdown of what b-rogue said was: “strad isn’t lying and we don’t have a leg to stand on so we’ve decided to back down. Oh, and it’s the cars fault. We’ve decided to use excess literature to beat around the bush” K
I was waiting to hear what B-Rogue was going to respond with before making judgment, yeah, not impressed. Their response does make them seem at fault. Either way, I hope this gets resolved.
With someone like strad, doesn’t matter if they say nothing or a lot, the scam is in plain sight. The only thing they can hope for is that people forget about it.
They’re openly avoiding some of the issues. They have mentioned both times now about the difficulty of the 5 liter and working on - that’s understandable to some extent. They’re glossing over the broken parking brake, engine hatch release, and spilled oil on the motor, none of which broken things/issues are specific to the Gallardo. This is general quality control stuff.
I truly think Strad is over it and will move on. He’s had offers from plenty of other more competent people who will not only do it for free, but may end up making money off the project through views. All B Rogue can hope to do now is maintain whatever customer base they have left.
You don’t just “move on” after being scammed out of 57 grand that’s not how it works. Just because he makes a lot of money doesn’t mean anything it’s the principle behind it they took almost 60k from him and sent him back a completely undrive-able car
Stradman asked if they could do the build. They said yes, no matter if parts are "readily available." It's on B-Rogue for lying about being able to successfully do the project
They had the car for ages. It came back with broken latches and a broken parking brake. While the modifications may have been ambitious (although no where near impossible) there is no reason for those simple parts to come back broken, despite B-Rogue builds knowing they were broken.
If they did nothing wrong they would take legal action, their lawyers told them to zip it and brush it under the rug as much as possible. They are simply attempting to save their PR
If B Rogue realized that they couldn’t fix the car because of “significant problems with these 5 liter cars”, they should have told Strad that they can’t fix it and given him some sort of refund. Sounds like they got in over their heads and rather than admitting they couldn’t do the work, they’re just going to blame the car.
At the end of the day… whether the car was running or not; to me B-Rogue’s lack of response and willingness to offer a solution after already being paid is what is worse to me. Not sending out a mechanic, not helping with recommendations to fix it, could’ve avoided all of this. At the end of the day they are a mechanic shop and build/REPAIR vehicles.
Wow b rogue really tried to blame stradman...not how that works..they just couldn't do what they were supposed to do and messed up the car more than it was going in... they were wrong but dont want to admit it@!!!
Speculation on whether the fuel and environment were the problems... Did the fuel and environment also break the parking break and leave parts loose in the interior?
There really isn't much of an opinion to take from the brouge and strad situation at the moment. It seems to be fully one-sided so far. Brouge was paid to mod strad's car. They failed to do so and broke it multiple times along the way, strad clearly kept paying them to fix it because clearly they kept saying they could. In the end, they completely broke his car and handed it back to him in that condition. They deserve to be sued by strad and strad deserves, not only all the money he gave to them back, but brouge should also pay another shop to properly fix his car and mod a proper twin turbo kit onto it. Keeping as silent as possible is the best thing to do legally, but it's also the worst thing they can do in this situation. If Brouge actually cared about its customers and products, then they should've jumped right on the opportunity to pay strad back in full, at the very least. The fact that they declined every single thing strad offered is proof that they don't really care at this point. They probably just care about the money more than anything.
I get that the car was running beforehand, however, if it was damaged during transit the client shouldnt need to pay for it, they company delivering it does, and still, it doesn't take away from the emergency brake being installed incorrectly, multiple latches not working, it makes no sense, B-Rogue should be held responsible
TL:DR - "Yes, we took Strad's money, and we're ok with that, but the platform sucked in the first place so it's not our fault that we over-promised and under-delivered. Unlike us at B Rogue, Nik at VF Engineering and his superchargers for the 5.0L work great and cost less than what Strad paid us".
B rouges response wasn't even a real response taking 0 accountability or providing reason for why it is not their fault just saying they won't respond and stay in business and turn comments off on all of their Instagram posts and negative Google reviews
Also they blame the car being as old as it is but like stradman said if you can't do something be honest about it. Why lie about being able to do something you don't have the means to do..
@@sreher098 they called it an outdated platform...yet took the money knowing what car it was. also at this point so many shops can do a TT kit just by using internet pictures, B-rough can't even manage to get one running after 3 years.
Bottom line is stradman shipped the car there because they claimed they were the best at building these cars and paid them a lot of money for 3 years of work and they failed miserably. If this was any one of us watching this we would be extremely pissed to. If they were a good business they would have either offered to fix the issue or help pay for someone else to fix it. They go straight to getting a lawyer first because they know they’re wrong. Stradman isn’t the lying type of guy and you can tell this was something really hard for him to do. Sometimes you just have to be honest so this doesn’t happen to anyone else.
B-Rogue had his car for nearly 4 years! Any other high end shop could have turned a rusted out hunk of garbage into a Riddler ready car in that time. They messed it up big time.
If i recall correctly, this isn't even the same engine that strad gave the car with to b-rouge. The orginal engine was damaged beyond repair and they had source a new one to continue this build, i remember strad mentioning this in one of his videos. If that's true then it's really sad that original engine got destroyed and they had to source a new one to continue with the turbo kit.
the car was given to b-rogue built running and came back to strad with a plethora of issues, the handbrake was broken, the latch for the deck on the engine bay was broken, there was engine oil in the engine bay and on top of that it was leaking oil and the biggest issues was it wasnt running just imagine paying 50k (note u could buy a car with that money) just get your car after 3 years and it being in that condition b-rogue built really needs to get a piece of stradman
the fact of the matter is that it doesnt matter if the car was running prior to stradman getting it back, there were countless issues beyond it not running such as oil leaking parts not working nor being attached and more.
Why is this even being discussed. They made a quotation. They made a plan for the build. James paid for the build. The build was never finished and shipped back broken. They admitted their mistakes. The car itself is proof down to the sloppy Ebrake mistake. If you can't deliver the finished product you promised you compensate the buyer for it unless James had to sign a contract stating that it's his own risk which i highly doubt given the "professional state" of B Rogue.
B Rogue had many opportunities to fly to Utah to examine the cars problems. The fact they didn't and the fact that the vehicle arrived with broken parts and oil all over the engine says everything about the quality of work from that shop.
B-Rogue is not saying anything because they KNOW James is a Good guy, and WILL NOT sue them, unless provoked. He would rather just pay for it out of his pocket, than paying for lawyer fees to go after them. It's a number for Strad, Lawyers, + fixing the car, will be MORE than just fixing the car. He did his damage by posting his video...
From a non-Strad viewer nor fan viewpoint, the responsibility of a car shop is to deliver a car in the same or better condition than it was handed to them. They definitely failed on that basic goal and washing their hands is definitely NOT the way to go. Unfortunately for Strad where he went wrong is that there are a few very well known shops that specialize in exactly these platforms and in hindsight, it's not a great idea to put such a big job on the hands of "how hard could it be?" levels of experience. Lessons learned in both camp although by reading the B Rouge's statements and their lack of accountability I wouldn't at this point hand them the keys of a Honda Civic since they're not responsible for their own actions. Either way their reputation is ruined by their own accord.
Shops needs to be held accountable... They should have said no instead of collecting the money if they understood how unusual and difficult it is to work on his lambo!
Takes 2 to tangle. But obviously Strad was expecting a tuned ready to go car. If B broke claims the car has a myriad of problems and impossible parts to get and went to work on it anyways then it’s on them.
Even if it the problem is just a simple issue its how Strad was treated in this situation. First the handbrake was broken and they admitted to it, why would it be sent out broken like that. Two. They likely should have sent someone out to diagnose it and look at the car ASAP and from what stradman said it seems like he gave them a chance but they denied. But with how long it took(even taking into consideration Covid and everything) it should have been perfect since it took 1200 days to complete. The car can't even run at idle.
If it was running when it left Chicago, but doesn’t and has a multitude of issues upon arrival in Utah, they should take presidence to fix it. They had the car for YEARS, James spent a lot of money. If you go to a mechanic shop and spend 1k, you want your vehicle to be better than when you dropped it off. You take it and spend 52k. You want it flawless. They will end up being sued and will lose their asses.
Sure these cars might have their own problems, but that still doesn’t explain a car coming back “finished” with a broken emergency brake and rear hatch latch. That just screams someone went really wrong at some point and won’t take credit for their mistakes
I remember a video rouge put out showing an employee detailing under the wheel wells and giving it such a deep cleaning to showcase their work over and above. It comes back with oil in the valley, a broken e-brake and engine cover release not operative. Those are just the little things...
After it got wrapped it was sent back, it was clearly said that B rogue was not done with the car so it was going back to them before strad, so it wasn’t just sent to strad after being wrapped. This guy who wanted to get involved either knows nothing, is ignorant to the facts or is working on B rogues side(possibly paid to do so)
B Rogue took this vehicle on and said I can do this for X money. They Blew a whole engine then replaced it and still didn't get it right. After years and 2 engines at what point to you accept the fact you can't deliver? They never did and delivered a sub par car as a result. Things were broke that had nothing to do with this build. They had every opportunity to back out and didn't. This entire catastrophe of a build is on them.
Making the excuse that the Gallardo is an old platform with little to no parts availability/aftermarket support is probably the worse excuse you can make. There are older cars with even less OEM/aftermarket support that are still being built and maintained to this day. There are individuals and companies out there that are willing to refurbish or fabricate parts from scratch. There are even cars that outlive their companies and are still running on the streets today with plenty of ways to mod them to meet modern standards of performance and comfort. Finally, in the worst case scenario if the project doesn't work out, replace the original components you took out and return it to its owner the same way it arrived in your shop. If you're unable to perform on a car simply because it's "too old," then maybe you shouldn't run an auto shop business.
Soooooo basically B-Rogue typed all of that out just to basically say, they’re taking ZERO responsibility or accountability for the condition of the car huh? SMH WOW!
Here's my 5 cents in the matter. If a company is well aware of certain cars being a pos, why would they even bother to take on the job? I work in the 12v industry with cars, and we often turn vehicles down because of the issues that they bring. That also includes customers. We would rather loose money and not do the job. Than loose money and get a bad reputation even tho we explain the customer that it's not our fault. There's been times where we were tempted to take on the job. But at the end of the day we let ir go to avoid such conflict. So in my opinion I think that b rouge it's a fault regardless of how big of pos the cars are. Have a good day.
Car was there for 3 years. Other builders built TT kits for this generation Gallardo. No excuse to deliver a car in that condition after having it for that much time. Regardless of who is at fault and who blames who. 3 years is a long time to have a car for it not to be properly tuned
B Rogue's response gets me heated. I haven't seen a SINGLE person on BR's side. Even if the car was running, the fact that it was pissing oil everywhere is insane. He gave them 3 options and they declined it. What did they do with the 50k??
A legit business needs to operate on two fronts. 1-Do the actual work you're contacted to do, and do it well. 2-In the rare instance your business screws something up, have great customer service and help your client out. The main issue with b rogue and the reason Strad posted the video is because first off they took more than 4 YEARS TO COMPLETE his car, but more importantly didn't even respond to him when he voiced that it had issues for months on end after paying them $52,000 If their workmanship doesn't show how crap they are as a business, then their customer service sure does!!
I'm not questioning the difficulty of the build because it was an older car that was beat on but regardless of whether or not the build was difficult B-Rouge said they could do it and took his money and didn't deliver.
B-Rogue were asked to build a working TT Gallardo. They delivered one that didn’t work. The least they could’ve done is fly out to find out what the issue was. If they delivered it in good faith this would have been a no-bainer! Don’t blame the car, blame the promise you made which you couldn’t keep.
Let's just get it out there, the "Myriad Problems" with pre-LP Gallardos aren't really that many if you don't count common user-error: 1) Disintegrating stock cats causing bore scoring (even if damage had occurred, this should probably be addressed if they actually "built" the motor vs just plumbing some wu-tang war-whistles on there.) This could cause blow-by and oil smoke, for sure especially exacerbated by boost. 2) Not the strongest stock rods, can get bent by free-revving too enthusiastically (again, should be addressed by a "build" 3) oil pump drive shaft can fail but usually not catastrophic 4) Timing chain guides may need attention on particularly high mile cars, but not guaranteed. 5) Fuel pumps and Throttle bodies can f-off, the former cross reference to a VW the latter are expensive 6) front lower control arm ball joints are weak 6) rear bumper cover frame is flimsy and breaks a lot.....and we're well outside of the drivetrain at this point. People do over-fill the oil and cause issues, high mile cars can have problems with o-rings on an oil pipe off of the filter, but it's not like the 5.0s are intrinsically fragile, they're just not as idiot-proof as the 5.2s.
