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      08-17-2012, 05:08 PM   #1
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Thumbs down Impressive Wrap in LA joyrides S4, owner gets ticket!

Hey guys - if you live in LA you should be aware of Impressive Wrap and how they took this guy's S4 for a joyride and got a ticket.

IMPRESSIVE WRAP joyrides my car, I get surprise letter/ticket weeks later; NEED HELP!
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There's definitely a different story behind this. Every shop makes mistakes, who doesnt. I don't think it's fair to post up all over the forums without hearing back from the shop. I went there after work as well to find out what's going on. It's definitely a misunderstand. Please guys, please don't be an Douche and listen to each side story.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...mpressive-wrap
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Their side is they weren't joy riding. They were simply taking the car to 3M headquarters.

Sounds fishy to me. They should have informed the customer they needed to take his vehicle to 3M and they should have DEFINITELY informed him about the fix-it ticket.
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      08-17-2012, 11:46 PM   #7
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There's definitely a different story behind this. Every shop makes mistakes, who doesnt. I don't think it's fair to post up all over the forums without hearing back from the shop. I went there after work as well to find out what's going on. It's definitely a misunderstand. Please guys, please don't be an Douche and listen to each side story.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...mpressive-wrap
Their rebuttal was addressed nothing what so ever. In my opinion it is only more incriminating.

There was mention of the poor workmanship on the passenger fender yet he claims they "make sure the vehicle is done correctly and up to the clients satisfaction". RIGHT

There was no mention of why he didn't tell his client that he got a ticket in his car. FISHY

And there was no explanation why he had to drive the car to 3M headquarters. If they were picking up product, you do that shit in a company car. FISHY

And then obligatory collage of exotic cars. LOL


I dont live in LA, but I have some unexplainable urge to make an effort to make sure no one takes their car to this "shop" in the future.
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someone tell me how it's the owner's responsibility if the provider was unable to drive the car to 3m without getting a ticket?
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      08-18-2012, 05:22 AM   #9
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Their rebuttal was addressed nothing what so ever. In my opinion it is only more incriminating.

There was mention of the poor workmanship on the passenger fender yet he claims they "make sure the vehicle is done correctly and up to the clients satisfaction". RIGHT

There was no mention of why he didn't tell his client that he got a ticket in his car. FISHY

And there was no explanation why he had to drive the car to 3M headquarters. If they were picking up product, you do that shit in a company car. FISHY

And then obligatory collage of exotic cars. LOL


I dont live in LA, but I have some unexplainable urge to make an effort to make sure no one takes their car to this "shop" in the future.

Obviously you do not know anything about clear bra or vinyl wrap. So please don't comment on something you have no experience with, at the end. You will just look like a fool. The car got approved by the instructor and it's very common to have little imperfection.

The crew was recently trained and certified to become an installer for clear bra. It's one of their first big jobs. Their intention was to get the job done right the first time without any error . They brought the car over to the 3m place where they got trained at, have the instructors to monitor them and make sure no mistakes was made. If a shop does not care about their quality work, they will not make the extra effort to go to the 3m place. They can just risk it and wrap the car.

Yes, they did make mistakes and didn't tell the customer that they will drive his car and so unfortunate, customer's car got pull over for illegal tint. They didn't handle this case very professionally. You learn from mistakes, thats how you become successful. No one wants that to happen.

But who doesn't make mistakes? they wrapped over 100 cars and majority of them are satisfied happy customers. They are good at what they are doing, price is always the best around the area. When a shop gets popular, negative comments are almost impossible to avoid. At least they are willing to man up, and take care of the unhappy customer.

No company in the world never make errors or mistakes. Which vendors on here has 100% positive feedback? None. As long as the shop admit their mistakes and willing to solve the problem with the customer, i believe anyone deserve a second chance. Why so harsh on them when you only heard from one side of the stories?

Why do they not comment back on the thread they create? because they think they provide enough information, and after that, it's between the customer and the them. Why waste time on the forum instead of spending time to take care of the customer and make him happy?

Those guys work their ass off to build the company, pull overnighters few days a week just to make sure the customers get their car on time. It's unfair to have thread like this to hurt a great company like this. They really put much effortss into customer's car. That's all i have to say, most members here are mature enough to determine this situation. No need to create more drama that it needs to. They already admit their fault and please just leave it here. Have the customer and the shop to solve the problem.

If you guys have any further questions, you are more than welcome to pm me.

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      08-18-2012, 07:50 AM   #10
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someone tell me how it's the owner's responsibility if the provider was unable to drive the car to 3m without getting a ticket?
Sure, no problem. When you give the keys to someone, you are letting them drive under your signature. It's your car - if it wasn't stolen then?

Like giving someone the password to your ATM and then bitching when your money's gone...
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      08-18-2012, 08:01 AM   #11
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At least they are willing to man up, and take care of the unhappy customer.


-Eddie
Sorry - anyone who gets a ticket under those circumstances, and simply sends it off to the owner, hoping they pay without noticing, isn't "manning up." Now that it's hit the fan, they suddenly want to make the customer happy. Yes, everyone makes mistakes, but this was hardly a mistake.

Now that the public eye is on this, let's see what they do to make it right. Better be good.
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      08-18-2012, 08:28 AM   #12
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Obviously you do not know anything about clear bra or vinyl wrap. So please don't comment on something you have no experience with, at the end. You will just look like a fool. The car got approved by the instructor and it's very common to have little imperfection.

The crew was recently trained and certified to become an installer for clear bra. It's one of their first big jobs. Their intention was to get the job done right the first time without any error . They brought the car over to the 3m place where they got trained at, have the instructors to monitor them and make sure no mistakes was made. If a shop does not care about their quality work, they will not make the extra effort to go to the 3m place. They can just risk it and wrap the car.

Yes, they did make mistakes and didn't tell the customer that they will drive his car and so unfortunate, customer's car got pull over for illegal tint. They didn't handle this case very professionally. You learn from mistakes, thats how you become successful. No one wants that to happen.

But who doesn't make mistakes? they wrapped over 100 cars and majority of them are satisfied happy customers. They are good at what they are doing, price is always the best around the area. When a shop gets popular, negative comments are almost impossible to avoid. At least they are willing to man up, and take care of the unhappy customer.

No company in the world never make errors or mistakes. Which vendors on here has 100% positive feedback? None. As long as the shop admit their mistakes and willing to solve the problem with the customer, i believe anyone deserve a second chance. Why so harsh on them when you only heard from one side of the stories?

Why do they not comment back on the thread they create? because they think they provide enough information, and after that, it's between the customer and the them. Why waste time on the forum instead of spending time to take care of the customer and make him happy?

Those guys work their ass off to build the company, pull overnighters few days a week just to make sure the customers get their car on time. It's unfair to have thread like this to hurt a great company like this. They really put much effortss into customer's car. That's all i have to say, most members here are mature enough to determine this situation. No need to create more drama that it needs to. They already admit their fault and please just leave it here. Have the customer and the shop to solve the problem.

If you guys have any further questions, you are more than welcome to pm me.

-Eddie
I know a little bit, I know that you pay the extra money to get it handcut so you can get the wrapped edges and avoid exposed seems.

Charging a premium price for something, from what you say, they just learned to do in addition to taking the car to 3M and using it as a learning tool? Idk, I am pretty sure that isn't cool with anyone
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You such a negative person. Certified and " just learn" is two different things. They have the talent to wrap, they did so much wrap on custom wide body cars.and you think a stock s4 will be a challenge for them? They want to ensure get the best work, that's the reason they brought it over there to work on the car. Its definitely not "learning tool "as you mentioned.
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You such a negative person. Certified and " just learn" is two different things. They have the talent to wrap, they did so much wrap on custom wide body cars.and you think a stock s4 will be a challenge for them? They want to ensure get the best work, that's the reason they brought it over there to work on the car. Its definitely not "learning tool "as you mentioned.
Did they also drive those custom wide body cars to the 3M place too?
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You such a negative person. Certified and " just learn" is two different things. They have the talent to wrap, they did so much wrap on custom wide body cars.and you think a stock s4 will be a challenge for them? They want to ensure get the best work, that's the reason they brought it over there to work on the car. Its definitely not "learning tool "as you mentioned.
Did they also drive those custom wide body cars to the 3M place too?
Funny guy here. Unfortunately they didn't.
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You such a negative person. Certified and " just learn" is two different things. They have the talent to wrap, they did so much wrap on custom wide body cars.and you think a stock s4 will be a challenge for them? They want to ensure get the best work, that's the reason they brought it over there to work on the car. Its definitely not "learning tool "as you mentioned.
So you work there or what?
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none of this woulda happened if the shop had informed customer that his car was gonna be taken to 3M...entire debacle is on them, people should know and glad OP posted the story.
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none of this woulda happened if the shop had informed customer that his car was gonna be taken to 3M...entire debacle is on them, people should know and glad OP posted the story.
What EISNER M said.

I agree with EISNER M. There is NO reason why they should not have informed the customer they needed to drive the car somewhere. Another poster in a different thread mentioned 3M is no where near where the car was driven. The photos showed the work was poor quality as well. The material should have wrapped inside the fenders. I paid significantly less for my wrap which was the entire hood, front fenders, rocker panels, headlights etc and I had no issues whatsoever. No driving was required, nor indicated.

I really could care less that they have wrapped 100 cars as you say ec1c173. I run a business as well, and yes mistakes happen. However, when they do, we make sure the client is properly taken care of. We would NEVER engage in unethical behavior such as taking a client's car without their explicit permission. That's not a simple 'mistake' it's flat out unethical to do that and then not inform the client that a ticket was issued. It's SHADY, it's not a simple mistake. Give me a break.
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What EISNER M said.

I agree with EISNER M. There is NO reason why they should not have informed the customer they needed to drive the car somewhere. Another poster in a different thread mentioned 3M is no where near where the car was driven. The photos showed the work was poor quality as well. The material should have wrapped inside the fenders. I paid significantly less for my wrap which was the entire hood, front fenders, rocker panels, headlights etc and I had no issues whatsoever. No driving was required, nor indicated.

I really could care less that they have wrapped 100 cars as you say ec1c173. I run a business as well, and yes mistakes happen. However, when they do, we make sure the client is properly taken care of. We would NEVER engage in unethical behavior such as taking a client's car without their explicit permission. That's not a simple 'mistake' it's flat out unethical to do that and then not inform the client that a ticket was issued. It's SHADY, it's not a simple mistake. Give me a break.
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There's definitely a different story behind this. Every shop makes mistakes, who doesnt. I don't think it's fair to post up all over the forums without hearing back from the shop. I went there after work as well to find out what's going on. It's definitely a misunderstand. Please guys, please don't be an Douche and listen to each side story.

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showth...mpressive-wrap
That thread is gone.

I hate jumping in on a pissing contest but I feel like you are defending them heavily for a reason. How much did you pay for your wrap from them? You jocked them in a bunch of threads and they all read like a marketing campaign so I am wondering...
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