[The Racers Line]

Originally Posted by Kaotic Lazagna

Here's my experience with Neal. He's a chill guy, and at the time when I wanted my brake fluid changed (I think this was 2015 or 2016 when he had his Torque special going on in his first shop???), was the closest shop to me at the time that people were going to. Figured it would be cake for Neal for this job and nothing would go wrong. Well, he dropped his impact gun socket onto the lip of my WedsSport wheel and did not even mention it to me. Of course I heard this and went to the corner he was working on, and what do I see, a slight indentation on the lip where the socket fell onto (he later wrapped his socket with some kind of felt material as he probably saw me looking at the damage). Keep in mind, none of my wheels had any prior damage to it whatsoever. I'm partially at fault for not saying anything to him then, but oh well.

Thought all was good, but as time went by, my brake pedal became softer and softer, and the brake fluid getting darker and darker. To the point of not really slowing down until half the pedal was down. Not even 12 months later, fearing another chance of damaging my wheels, I decided to change the brake fluid myself, and what do I find? Air. I found air in the line. After changing them, and to this day (probably same amount of time, if not more, from when Neal changed the fluid to where the pedal required half the travel to start stopping), the car starts stopping at the top of the brake pedal travel.

I'm not sure if it was his pump that caused the air, or maybe he was rushing the job since that was all I was having done.

I also ruled out the Torque being the factor since I used it on my Yaris when I flushed the brake fluid in it, and it didn't get dark that quickly (still hasn't actually, and it's been quite some time and miles with it).


Now, like I said, Neal is a chill guy to hang out with, but sad to say I don't think I would bring my car(s) back to him for work.

I actually don't remember this at all but okay. I do pretty vividly remember however, that when I took your wheels off, you decided to hand thread ALL of your lug nuts back on for no reason. You don't touch a car when its being worked on. Simple as that. If you had mentioned the wheel issue, I would have paid to repair or replace the wheel, as with Josh.

The brake fluid issue was the pump actually, I had to replace it and have used a different one for a long time now. Again, you would have gotten a free bleed, but instead you bring it up online 2+ years later. Where is the logic?