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[boostede36]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to share my experience with Pride Performance from Keansburg, NJ.

I dropped off my BMW in Aug 2009. to get my wires cleaned up, tuned and running properly.


March of 2011, the job still wasn't done. Cash was paid upfront.

He also told me that my AEM was bad, and paid him 1000.00 to send it back to AEM to get it "fixed". I believe this is a lie because my AEM box was modded to work with BMW's. It would have came back differently (I think).


But anyway 1 1/2 years is enough time to clean up wires and get my car started, but the job was not complete.

I was upset and just wanted to drive my car. I then took it to Maximum Psi who had it running in only 2 weeks! at half the price they charged me.


These guys are crooks.


Stay away from PRIDE PERFORMANCE

[Johara2320]

Mind if I ask why you left your car at a shop for 1 1/2 years?

[JankyS13]

Originally Posted by Johara2320

Mind if I ask why you left your car at a shop for 1 1/2 years?

thats a very valid question, I would have got questionable after a month.

[SledgeHammer]

I hate threads about dont go to shop A without details... Your situation seems odd in that you ALLOWED your car to sit for 1.5yrs to basically rewire a AEM setup. What are you leaving out of the story here, it cant be that simple. Not a fan or hater of their work, I wouldnt take my Bimmer to them but that's just me. Anyway fill in the blanks bro!

[RyanG]

you must be leaving out details. We have cars that have sat for longer while the customer dragged their heels and didn't have the $$ to finish their project. We have one car here that the owner is MIA.

whats the rest of your story?

[Bates]

You are without a doubt leaving something out. Nas at Pride is a pretty stand up guy he wouldn't rob anyone. You either fill in blanks or a mod should delete this thread. no reason to just slander a shop I know does good work.

[boostede36]

i left it there for 1 1/2 years because they weren't done with the job.

They were unable to start the car.
They said they were waiting for the AEM box to arrive from AEM.
They wanted to keep on working on the car to get it started.
I constantly called them up and they kept on haggling me saying that they cant start the car and they were waiting for the AEM box.


I was trying to be patient and let them do their job.


I bought the car before i moved into the city. I was in no rush pick up the car because i ride my bicycle everywhere.

[boostede36]

I was warned by other people that the dude is a crook.
I didn't listen to them because I thought it was an easy job.

You guys want details?

I was paying him in increments as the job was "being done"

I was done paying him by June 2010 for a total amount of $4500.00

And then when he called me and said my AEM box was bad.

I deposited another $1000.00 into his account immediately.

This problem isn't because I dont have money to pay the job. The problem is that the dude is a crook.

And This BMW is a summer/weekend car, so I didn't care that it wasn't done in the winter time.


I thought the guys at Pride has a lot of **** going on, so I didn't want to bother them as I cant even drive my car in the city anyway. I told them to take their time, but they took a damn year and a half and still wasn't done.

[Bates]

Something doesn't add up. That isn't Nas' style. He needs to come in here and share his side, because while I'm not callin you a liar, I just find this hard to believe.

[boostede36]

You guys can either take his side or mine. I honestly don't care. All that matters to me now is that my car is running and almost at completion. I did not even get my attorney involved. I have more important things to worry about like school and work.

[boostede36]

Additional, after completing all the deposits into his account. He refused to email me back with a completed invoice for the completing the payments. I still have receipts of my deposits into his account. What do you have to say now NAS/NOZ/NAZ?


I really hope this thread f***s up their business as they stole $5500.00 from me.

[Bates]

He'll be in here soon. I just messaged him on another forum.

[Big_Jim]

Originally Posted by boostede36

March of 2011, the job still wasn't done. Cash was paid upfront.

Originally Posted by boostede36

I was paying him in increments as the job was "being done"

which one was it?

[accordguy04]

Nah nah nah, this dude dont sit right with me at all...

[boostede36]

Originally Posted by Big_Jim

which one was it?

Paid up front meaning paying before the job was complete, you generally pay for a transaction when the job is finished.

[Got Insulin?]

There's a couple of things that are fishy here:
I just checked the edit logs for your posts, you seem to be forgetting, and then remembering some rather specific details and going back and adding to your posts.


Also, about the AEM box... You seem a bit under-educated about it. You think it was modded? Why? AEM released their EMS for the BMW E36 pre-2007, so if you had some hack-job unit that could have been a lot of your problem. So the $1000 that Nas needed from you was likely to replace the hack-unit you provided so you can safely deduct that $1000 from your total, as it wasn't paid to the shop, it was paid to AEM through Pride to replace your "modded" unit.

Lastly, if it took a while for Pride to get the EMS back, then it took a while for AEM to get the box back to Pride, something that is not Pride's fault nor under their control.

Sub-lastly, if this is a weekend and summer car, why can't you drive it in the city.


Please consider your answers before digging yourself deeper and tarnishing a decent shop's name any more.

[boostede36]

Originally Posted by Got Insulin?

There's a couple of things that are fishy here:
I just checked the edit logs for your posts, you seem to be forgetting, and then remembering some rather specific details and going back and adding to your posts.


Also, about the AEM box... You seem a bit under-educated about it. You think it was modded? Why? AEM released their EMS for the BMW E36 pre-2007, so if you had some hack-job unit that could have been a lot of your problem. So the $1000 that Nas needed from you was likely to replace the hack-unit you provided so you can safely deduct that $1000 from your total, as it wasn't paid to the shop, it was paid to AEM through Pride to replace your "modded" unit.

Lastly, if it took a while for Pride to get the EMS back, then it took a while for AEM to get the box back to Pride, something that is not Pride's fault nor under their control.

Sub-lastly, if this is a weekend and summer car, why can't you drive it in the city.


Please consider your answers before digging yourself deeper and tarnishing a decent shop's name any more.

I'm not here to argue over the internet.
I just wanted to give Pride Performance a bad review because they simply couldn't finish a job over the span of 1 1/2 years.

As for driving my car in the city, thats something that I do not personally want to do, because I value my car and theres a lot of pot holes here in Philadelphia if you are unaware and I live in an apt which is why i do not plan on driving my car because I ride my bicycle everywhere.

Regardless if I keep adding and forgetting about stuff, is because i have bad memory.

I am not digging myself in a hole or anything because I am not lying. Why would i bother wasting my time here arguing with you over the internet.

The point I am trying to make is that I payed you guys before the job was even complete and that was a mistake on my part because you guys can't even finish the job over 1 1/2 years.

Case is closed. Pride performance sucks and do not do business with them.

I am done here.

[420sx]

In for the lulz.

Im interested to see what Pride has to say.

[Fujito]

Based on my experience and what I've seen on the forums even reputable shops do some shady things every now and then, so I don't find it so hard to believe.

[PrideNas]

There's a lot to the story that isn't being told. The car was towed in from another shop with several issues. It never ran, and was never completed by another shop. We were given half the parts necessary as well as half of a story as far as what was done to the car (which isn't the customer's fault because he told us what the previous shop had told him).

The car was rigged to work and never completed by the other shop because of the way they put it together. They used a discontinued AEM Honda ECU to run a turbo BMW. After re wiring the entire car and changing multiple parts that were incorrect we came to the conclusion that the AEM ECU was burnt out. I contacted Eddie at AEM and gave him a run down of the entire car. I also notified the customer that his setup (Honda AEM) was not the proper way to run the car but he insisted we use what he already had, because that's how the wiring and custom setup was done. I had explained at that point that there was no way that we would know how much power it would make and how reliable it was.

The AEM box was sent to AEM tech support and they diagnosed the issue with the box. There was an issue with getting supplied parts because they were no longer using the AEM as it was an original discontinued AEM Honda box. After several months the box came back. We had it plugged in and were able to see that now we were getting all signals from the box to ensure that the box was working correctly.

Remember since everything on this car was custom, we had no starting point and no point of reference. We got to the point where according to BMW's wiring schematic's and the way the AEM works we should have been able to fire it up, but it didn't. More troubleshooting and we were able to get everything working except injector pulse and spark.

As we were still working on it, the customer showed up and said he would be taking the car to paint and bringing it back. Long behold it was never brought back.

Having several inconsistencies in his story are correct.

Payment's were being made on the work that was being performed as well part's that were necessary. Reason why the car sat was because you were paying everything in increment's. On and off on a weekly, or monthly basis. So we worked on it on and off as you made payment's.

As the guys at AREA1320 are familiar with, some customer's disappear for a while. Some come back, other's don't. You did make payment's which was great, but no on any set timeframe.

Everyone on here know's me as well as my character. We aren't crooks, we don't hide and we try to be as straight forward as possible.

We understand that in today's economy not everyone has the funds nor the time to finish their projects so we are very lenient with not charging storage fees (which this customer wasn't). I tried my best to accomodate him and did everything to try and help. It's very hard to figure out other people's messes, without any starting point, as well as work with customer's that are on a limited budget and have to make payment's.

Please provide proof that everything was paid upfront and we held your car hostage for that amount of time to legitimize your statement. Other than that everything you have said contradicts itself.

My goal isn't to come on here and start an argument, but if your going to try and bash my lively hood, make sure you have proof as well as factual statement's.

The car was a mess when you towed it to the shop, we tried to accomodate you and allow you to make payment's on your car. It wasn't in our hands with waiting for parts to return from AEM or for you to give us money to continue you working on your car.

The shop previously told you it was an easy fix giving you false hope that your car would be done in a very short amount of time.

We were at the point of finishing your car when you picked it up but you decided to lie and say you were bringing it to paint and were going to bring it back so we could finish the job. Instead of saying you weren't happy with it and being truthful ou decided yet again to lie. At that point I could have tried to make you happy and explain everything to you as to why it wasn't finished yet. Instead you lied and had the car towed out. I also mentioned that I didn;t want you to take the car and not bring it back because at that point you had already made all the payment's in labor and I didn't feel it was right to not finish the job for you. This is when you again stated you were bringing it back.

Everyone on this forum knows we haven't had one bad review without any just reasoning. We have provided invoices to anyone that has asked, and even e-mailed them if it was of any inconenience to come pick one up.

I thank everyone that realizes the inconsistencies and can see past the non sense being spewed in this thread.

Thank You.

If anyone has any question's please feel free to contact me directly. 732-804-1280