Master mechanic here. Correlation codes means the cams and crank are mistimed. If it happened after he worked on the timing belt then he screwed up and didn't double check timing before he fired it up possibly resulting in pistons striking valves. If it came in that way before he worked on it he should have done a better job explaining the issue and what additional costs may be involved. * a sludged engine may exhibit timing issues due to blocked oil ports to the variable timing system.
Auto tech for 38 years, sounds like he may not have done a cylinder leak down test before he started the repair to check for bent valves,etc.But at this point we are just guessing.
From what is said it sounds like he didn't know about it before hand since he was saying he would do the extra work for free. This honestly sounds like either a mechanic that thinks he can do a timing chain but really couldn't, or someone who does meth and as soon as they got into the motor they decided to go way too far and messed everything up. "oh there is some sludge, I'll just take the whole thing apart and put it back together."
Isn't $700 far too low for a timing chain replacement? I've replaced timing chains myself and the parts were almost $700 including the 2 specialty tools from Ford. It was a 2004? ish Ford Escape with a crappy 4-cylinder engine and even worse CVT transmission. (Almost none of these cars are still on the road today for these reasons I'm listing). I got the timing chain and tensioners all squared away. The engine ran great for about another year before that CVT transmission grenade itself on the highway at 75mph and the girl I was dating at the time decided to let it go back to the bank because she was still upside down after getting scammed by a shady used car salesman while she was in college. It was her first car and first credit. Screw those people that prey on young beautiful naive college students working waitress jobs to get through school. Anyway I seem to remember I spent more than $700 on parts, tools and the book. Am I wrong on this $700 being too low for this repair? Vehicle dependent of course.
The billion dollar company I worked for was sued by a former employee. The company didn't show up for court, and the employee won his case. The company ignored the court ruling, I guess because they thought they were too big. Sheriffs showed up with about 30 wreckers and started hauling off vehicles owned by the company. I know because I was in one of the vehicles and they made me get my personal stuff and get out. Very shortly, corporate cut a check to cover the lawsuit.
And that ultimately is how judgements are supposed to work. You pay now or you pay when the sheriff's department shows up to take your stuff to cover the judgement.
That’s one thing I like about the UK over the US. If someone doesn’t pay it can be escalated and the sheriffs can basically force you to pay or take stuff to recoup the money. I’ve got a judgement against someone for 10 years now and haven’t collected a dime because she doesn’t work and if I try to find out if/where she works, she makes various criminal accusations. All I can do I wait for her to buy a house or to find out where she banks.
@@carmp3fan I've been watching several series on TH-cam that follow those UK judgement settlements "Can't pay? We'll take it away" is a favorite. On a different series, Delta Airlines owed a UK traveler comp for a flight issue. Wouldn't pay. The bailiffs showed up at LHR and held a delta airplane until they paid the $2000.00 or so.
I worked for a company that tried to get out of paying a $1500 bill for work done by another company, Marshals seized property worth millions. The company I was working for payed the $1500 by the end of the day...
@@SuperDrumwolfthat's when you talk to a lawyer. You can collect straight from his accounts or collect his equipment to cover the amount. I guarantee that if you start collecting his equipment he's going to pay so that he can continue working.
She needs to get the sheriff to seize assets for collection. Tools are expensive! A photographer didn't produce our wedding photos. For two years we asked. We sued and won. When we went after his equipment, the pictures magically appeared!
In Ohio you only have 14 days to appeal a small claims decision. To get the sheriff to seize assets you have to get a writ of execution. That means going back to court. You also have to potentially pay an upfront fee to the sheriff's office. Now my guess is he has a lawyer preparing a Bankruptcy case. Once filed all collection activities must stop. I am betting they are waiting until a Motion for Execution is filed. Then they will file the bankruptcy petition. In all likelihood she will not see any money.
Don’t know about other states, but in California, if a judgment debtor owns a shop, you can have the sheriff take money directly from the register to pay you
A friend was a musician who played at bars, A bar owner refused to pay her, she got a judgement against him, he refused to pay her. At about 11 PM on New Years Eve, she showed up with a sheriffs deputy and cleaned out the till. This lady needs to go seize his tool box.
Nope. Check the Ohio Constitution, Article I, section 15. What can happen is that someone can be held in contempt when they refuse to show up for a court hearing where assets to satisfy a judgment are at issue, but as soon as they show up and provide the information, released.
A neighbor in 2013 cut all the bushes that adjoined our properties without knowing exactly where the property line was located. Long story short, I had to hire a surveyor, and then put a fence up between our properties. I went the small claims route and awarded $3700.00. Then I was paid $25 every other week for 3 years until I saw a for sale sign in front of her house, hired a lawyer to put a lien on her house, and was finally sent a check by her lawyer after the closing on her house. I just refused to let her arrogance get away with destroying my property while having a smug look on her face. She even dismissed the cops that came after I caught back in my yard the second time, I caught her on my property before I had the fence installed!!!
I went this route with a shared fence that rotted out. In my state, property owners share costs on fences 50/50. Fence fell over in a wind storm, needed replacement. She initially agreed, very personable, neighborly. Asked if I would manage the replacement and she would pay me after work was done. After work was done, she made excuse after excuse, never paid. I sued in small claims court, she did not show up, and got a judgement, still did not pay. I put a lien on her property and she was furious when she sold it a few years later and had to cut me a check.
@@RJHerber You don't have to have a lawyer for everything in court. Some things actually are easy to accomplish. But, they're working on changing that real soon now. 😉
In Texas, the judge can sign a Writ of attachment and the Constables will show up and start taking the company property until they auction off enough to pay the judgement. Happens every day.
Called a "writ of execution" in other places. Steve has a great video on a Florida couple who sued a bank for foreclosing on a house that they'd paid in full for on purchase (thus no mortgage to foreclose on). Bank wouldn't cut them a check until the sheriffs showed up at a branch location with trucks, ready to haul off furniture, fixtures, and computers.
@@chris122380 I just tried to find it and failed. I did find an article from 2017. Search for FLORIDA COUPLE GIVEN PERMISSION TO SEIZE BANK OF AMERICA’S ASSETS for the details.
Yeah, I've been there. But it goes against their credit forever essentially, unless it's resolved. I've had fraudsters contact me ten years later or more asking me drop the judgement. Yeah, right.
My dad worked at a real estate management company many years ago. Told me that every month, people would come in to pay off judgements from years, if not decades, before. They had finally grown up, settled down, and wanted to get a loan for a car or house or whatever that required a credit check, but couldn't until the judgement was satisfied.
I bet he'll pay if she marches down there with a deputy and starts seizing tools and equipment. If you have a judgment that is well within your rights if they are refusing to pay. You can seize however much equipment is worth the value of the judgment. She starts grabbing his tools he would cut her a check really quick.
Not the way that works. And it's a good way to get yourself hurt. It's a civil matter and in most cases cops wont enforce a civil matter. They just tell you to go to court.
@@MarineVeteran0351 if you go to a Sheriff and say you have a court ordered judgment that the person is refusing to pay they will 100% help you. It's part of their job. Them or the US Marshalls.
From the Louisiana Illuminator - "Mar 15, 2023 - Louisiana lawmakers declined to change a law that lets cities and parishes refuse to pay judgments against them in court." The City of New Orleans does not pay judgements against them either. This came to my attention because of police misconduct resulting in a judgement that was not being paid.
And these cities wonder why they get random revolts agasinst them with mass rioting. If the city is corrupt people will get angery and often resort to unlawful acts in response to the city's unlawful acts.
Had a co-worker take a big telco to small claim. They never showed and continue to not only refuse to correct the error and give him his money back, but kept overcharging him. Refused to pay and tried to tie him up in red tape, claiming it had to be approved or some other BS. Somehow, when a legal officer showed up at the main office with the cops and a warrant to start seizing equipment until the judgment was satisfied by auctioning said equipment, approval took only a few minutes.
On this side of the world, it's practically certain that someone would have lost their job over that kerfuffle. Perhaps more than one "someone" since it's a failure on at least two fronts, one being the failure to respond to the court notice and the second being the failure to comply with the court's orders. Then there's a possible third person responsible for causing the over-charging in the first place.
That was the up-front charge. Although, I have never had the experience of a mechanic requiring an up-front cost, so that would be the red flag on its own.
If he wants to appeal, he has to put up a deposit or bond for the amount of the judgement (and possible interest) before he can even ask for a hearing date for his appeal. It may seem repressive, but it is a way to reduce the number of frivolous "run out the clock" appeals.
Early in my father's legal career, he had sued a cab company that wouldn't pay when they lost. He went to to their office with a sheriff's deputy and took their radio and antenna. Needless to say they soon payed up.
@@ViThePrincess Yes! We didn't win money just replacement of a warranted part. My daughter threatened to get a lawyer to sue him for not replacing bad part. He defamed her as being in collusion with a recently dismissed employee. He said to her to not threaten things she wouldn't do (lawyer). He was completely in the wrong so she would have gotten a lawyer, but we first went to AAA. Tune changed. He would have others talk to her plus she got her warranted repair done. At first I found AAA as a comforting backup for my daughter (and myself, but didn't get it until daughter was driving). AAA resolving this without needing a lawyer and potentially long litigation was priceless. Plus how small the owner acted after AAA showed up vs when he was abusively berating my daughter as a thief for not accepting a non-working part.
Cam-Crank correlation codes USUALLY mean engine has skipped time, meaning crankshaft and camshaft(s) are no longer timed properly. Can cause minor issues like rough running and sluggishness all the way to bent valves and broken pistons depending on how far out of time the engine is.
In the mechanic's defense, if the engine had jumped timing, the engine might have been damaged before he got it. Him finding sludge is evidence that it was poorly maintained by the owner. On the other hand, if the mechanic didn't install the timing chain correctly, that would trash the engine as soon as he tried to start it. He could also be using the "I found sludge and was trying to clean it" as an excuse for taking apart the engine to try to fix his mistake. Interesting case.
Sludge, its not worth fixing the engine in some cases. Drop a used or remanufactured engine in and call it a day. Pop off the valve covers during the timing chain job and you call the engine DOA if its sludged. Or you continue on and possibly get poor results and unhappy people.
@@mph5896 Thing is it's normal to call the customer. We have the right to say, "Just do exactly as I requested, or just put it back together." At that point the Mechanic is off the hook. A single phone call of "We found other issues." One every car owner has probably received.
I had a judgement against a landlord. Because my cancelled checks had his bank deposit information on it, was able get the judgement directly from his account. No waiting involved. I'm sure he probably had whiplash from quickly his money disappeared without knowing it.
Things like this are why my younger boy got out of being a car mechanic for the public after spending over $30k on school. He worked in a small family owned shop that mostly worked on older higher mileage vehicles. The vehicles usually had more issues than they were brought in for. And customers didn't understand when they were told about others things that were tied to their initial problems. They would get really upset. My son moved on to being a tractor mechanic, which he loved, but the pay wasn't there. His friend roped him into working for a chemical company that has cleaning products for food processing plants (mostly). He now installs and works on pumps for chemicals and fabrics brackets and stands for the equipment. I'm glad I never went into the mechanic industry. I wanted to go to the same school my son went to. I only work on my own stuff. But I do send many things to my local shop. And I do understand the rabbit holes that snowball from years of hard use and mileage. Things like heat cycles that cause plastics to break down and become brittle and metal to warp over time.
The court system sucks!! I got a judgement against a former tenant,they wouldn't pay!! The judge told me good luck getting the money. What a bunch of crap!! So I stole their car, n sold it for parts!!! By the way this was 25 years ago!!
02:28 I'll stop you there Steve. If everything was 'out of whack' after a timing belt change, then he got the timing wrong. That can, and usually does result in massive damage to the engine as valves open and close at the wrong times, and pistons smash into them, then the fragments of metal get gouged along the cylinder linings, sometimes jamming the pistons which causes yet more damage.. it can chain all the way through and basicly turn the block into a chunk of scrap, and litter the ground under the vehicle with bits of engine that break through the casing. Nevermind 'codes' and stuff, that wasnt what the car was in for, he shouldnt have TOUCHED anything besides what was authorised. And to me it sounds like he pooched that up real badly.
This case might benefit from having another mechanic examine the engine to try to find out what really happened and whose fault it was. I can imagine that it could have been the customer's fault for ignoring bad noises until serious damage was done, and it could also have been the mechanic's fault if he fitted the chain wrongly or turned the engine while the chain was not fitted (if it is an interference engine). Did the court make any sort of investigation?
@@cedriclynch It was in for the timing belt replacement *only*. That would suggest there were no other issues, otherwise he'd have brought them up on inspection, surely. Especially if the engine was throwing codes as he insists.
Steve's comment reminded me of long ago when I was in college and took the bus home. The bus was very late. My brother was there to get me from the station to home. I saw him and he asked for a dollar. I gave it to him and he said "now you are a day late and a dollar short." It was good and I told him to keep the dollar.
Unless we were there we have no idea. I ran a successful garage for over 40 years. People seem to think when you touch their car that you are responsible for anything that goes wrong after they get it back... A timing chain can last a million miles, so how did this lady know this was the issue a d wanted it replaced. As if a chain has caused any issues, that has knock on effects, especially if there is sludge in engine as stated.
Doing timing without solving other issues may result in forced warranty work and repair failure. He probably felt he was doing the right thing. Correlation codes are sensors saying timing alignment is off between crank and cam system.
@@outseeker Absolutely it could. Most shops take and save a repair report at the start of a repair that is time stamped. There can be failed repair still even with that proof yes. Too many variables. Would almost need another mechanic to verify actual current state of vehicle to really know.
@@outseeker a few things could cause correlation faults, cam gears/phasers could fail. Cam solenoids, tensioners, chain stretch, sensors, internal oiling failure, wiring ect. Then you got to worry if it’s an interference engine and was damage done before you touch it.
Anythings possible, but better to offer proof, of which I have none. It also would have been cheaper to just pay if guilty rather then instead getting an attorney.
Replacing a timing chain can involve major engine parts removal. So he has not done extra work. Do you know what's involved in replacing a timing chain ???
@@evelghostridermost of the time it does not mean to take off the head unless you are doing a gasket swap. Which isn’t being said here as Steve is saying it’s just a timing chain. I do understand some hoses, air filters or engine side covers might be in the way. I do wonder how he wrecked the motor
Timing chain is not like a belt, the chain is inside the engine casings as they have constant oil flow. I had a successful garage for over 35 years and you always get customers who think you done something if their car breaks down after you have worked at it.@Nonexistanthuman
In business for 40 years in this field and own and managed numerous shops and thousands of customers. If engine was sludged technician should have suggested an engine replacement. Sludge is due to extended services and lack of maintenance and with vct engines it is critical on services and oil viscosity. He took liability for touching the job or attempting this job unless he sent it away because of these issues after inspection. He could have been not liable if he had a lawyer in the beginning if he didn't attempt repairs seeing the sludge and him being the professional should know better. It is like a doctor opening a person up and finding out it is worse that test and xrays and sews you up and nothing can be done and it was due to smoking for 50 years and far worse after getting into surgery.
Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. You are right that where he messed up was taking the job. I'm sure you also understand the single mom with 4 kids who never even checked the oil in the 4 years she has been beating the tires off the car begging and pleading that you take a look. Seem like people think the timing code came after he did the job. I am sure it hadn't seen an oil change in years, the tensioner got gummed up, the timing chain rubbed through the nylon/plastic or whatever pad was on the guide then after a lot of racket it jumped timing. This poor guy felt bad and tried to help but the damage was done. But what does she care she is getting a new to her car. Or he could have been a pos. I have just seen similar things at the small town shop.
Nope. She's got a court order. Take it to the county sheriff and they'll start taking property from the shop to be sold at auction and the proceeds given to her
Years ago I went to small claims court with my mom. A contractor did a poor tile job on the kitchen floor - he used WALL tiles on the floor, so tiles were cracking all over. The contractor goes away on vacation and when he came back refused to fix it. In small claims court he lost - we showed the judge pictures and brought one of the cracked tiles to show him. We were awarded a $1500 judgment to restore the floor with correct tiles (this was back in the 80s - today would be much more). Turns out the contractor did pay the judgment without any hassles.
Wall tiles are often used on floors, that is not the problem. The problem is that he did not use enough adhesive when laying them. I am not a pro at this, but I have done several with no cracks. And they are literally Hell to get up.
@@heroesandzeros7802 No these tiles were NOT designed for floor use - it said so on the box! We used that as evidence too in small claims court (he left a box behind with a few spares). Some may be formulated for either/or, but at the time these were not, since he was in a rush to go on vacation he picked the wrong ones in haste. They were decorative in nature and would not stand up to the rigors of people walking on them with shoes especially.
@@chrisguli2865 I was in a hotel that I swear must have put wall tiles on the floor. In an accessible bathroom it was nearly impossible to walk on a wet floor without slipping! What puzzled me was that the tiles’ shape I did not ally see as floor tiles. In the had there was a slope and even without water that also seemed slick. As I recall it was not the same pattern, not sure if it was a related tile.
Winning a judgement, is not the same as getting paid. Bob owed lots of money, to lots of people, and just didnt pay any of them. He started working for cash. One guy could not accept the loss, chased Bob all the way across the country, and knocked on Bob's door. It did not end well for him. You cannot harrass someone whom owes you money.
My understanding of these judgments to pay, if they don't pay once ordered, you must go get an order from the court for the sheriff to seize enough property (personal property first) to sell to get enough funds to settle the judgment.
I was sued for $1 million in NYS Supreme Court, I counter sued for $90k that was owed to me. I won the counter suit and the law suit against me. The guy filed bankruptcy and I never saw a cent. Except a $30k legal bill. I won everywhere and felt like I lost
I hope you at least contacted his trustee in bankruptcy and lodged proof of your claim with the trustee? If not, then it's no wonder you never saw a cent of your money. The trustee has to pay debts in a particular priority order, which is government first (e.g. taxes), secured creditors second (mortages and other secured loans) and then all unsecured claims last. But if you never even lodged a proof of claim, then you get nothing automatically, even if the money was there to pay your claim. (Source: Nearly 20 years in a related field working for a government authority)
@@melkiorwiseman5234if the lawyers got their money, they should have collected on his behalf as well. His lawyers got paid and left their client out to dry with nothing. His lawyers completely failed him😡
That’s how they rigged the court system up. Can thank the lawsuit junkies suing anyone they can for money. Eventually now it turns to over priced fees on both sides. Even can be weaponized to drain bank accounts by having to prove innocents on frivolous lawsuits. No innocent till proven guilty. Just here is a lawsuit now fight.
@@bobbarker1798good. It doesn't exist to serve us or justice, it exists to protect the rich and powerful. See: Einstein getting a work release plea deal (what was his work again? lmao) in 2009 in exchange for not snitching, because he worked for intelligence. (Sorry for spelling the name wrong I'm trying to evade the ai censors)
@@jiaan100When one is tasked by the three letter bois to entrap and get dirt on the wealthy and powerful, it's in your best interests to also get dirt on the three letter bois who hired you. Trouble is you usually run out of usefulness sooner or later and they Einstein you in your jail cell and make everything bad disappear.
Mechanic probably dropped the ball by not taking pictures and bailing out of the job after he opened it up and found it full of sludge. Almost impossible to fix it right if the engine is full of sludge. Cam/crank correlation codes are likely due to cam timing actuators not working properly due to sludge or plugged oil ports. He made the customer's problem his problem.
I have this situation with Take 5 Oil Change here in Ohio that damaged my car. They didn’t show up to small claims court and I got a default judgment, which they refuse to pay. There’s a process where you can get the Sheriff’s department to take and sell inventory, which I’m doing.
Who told her she needed a timing chain? She was shopping around for a low price. If the chain had jumped already, the damage was done. If he installed improperly, damage is done. If during the timing chain replacement he discovered timing chain guides broken that possibly made its way to the oil pan, broken cam phasers, cam sensors, or blocked oil passages he should have stopped and asked what she wanted to do. We dont know the whole story. Small claims in NY, you have 2 choices. Go before a judge. His rule can be appealed . Go before an arbitrator with judgment being final.
@@Gamesso1slOo0lno as it is often possible to appeal, plus the people acting as judges in small claims court are not actual judges, plus often are idiots. A ruling doesn't mean you have a clue as to what happened.
This reminds me of a homeowner that sued a bank for false foreclosure. The homeowners won and waited to collect. Never heard anything and had sheriffs go to the local branch and start seizing assets of the bank. Bank wrote a check real fast. They even had a moving van for the furniture. 🤣
In the UK, something similar takes place. And the sheriffs charge for their time and trouble, which gets added to the debt which has to be paid by whoever they're collecting from. If they have to hire a truck to take something they're seizing, that gets added to the debt and has to be paid even if the truck is subsequently cancelled, since the company who supplies the truck still has to be paid for their time.
We took a carpenter to small claims and got a $2K judgement after he no showed twice....nice, But then he refused to ever return any correspondence from the court about payment and somehow never surfaced again, until a couple of years later he OD's on something and died. We thought about challenging whatever estate he had left behind but by that time we we're just over it.
Lawyer here. I practiced in the DC local & federal courts for many years. The debtor could file bankruptcy for his business or himself individually, depending on which was the defendant. It’s a fairly easy process, although it must be less than fun & as an individual, it would have repercussions for years to come.
As the former owner of a moving company, I sued 6 people in my first 12 months. They would stop payment on a check. I won all cases. All 6 never paid me anything after the judgements were filed. They're poor people. So there's nothing to place a lien on. Which means I personally paid for their move. I paid for the truck, gas, labor, for free. Tying up time I could've been with a paying customer. My solution? Raised my rates from $85hr to $130hr. Stopped moving anyone on a 3rd floor. And changed my advertising to appeal to wealthy people. Never had to sue again.
Way back in the mid 90s a friend stopped his car off for an oil change When he went back they told him it wasn't done and he'd have to come back int next day (happened to be a Friday). When he went back in on the Monday afternoon he was present a bill of $4200 for a new running belt and head gasket. Not only did he not need the work, he didn't approve the work and he was never asked to approve the work. The shop refused to give him his car until he paid the bill so he had no choice and filed a suit against them. The courts sided with the shop. This is when I started doing as much work to my own car as I possibly could.
My brother won a small claims judgement against a contractor for $1,000 but the contractor refused to pay. My brother then went to the local bank with a Deputy Sheriff (small town) and the judgement to clean out the guy's account (to the judgement amount). My brother got about 1/2 and was never able to get the rest because the contractor closed his account and eventually put his house in his daughter's name. Different state so different rules.
In Seattle in the 1980s there was a crooked parking lot company. Long story short, woman in my office won a case in small claims court...company laughed at her. In some manner, a procedure was put into place where a County Sheriff's deputy accompanied the woman to a company facility and the deputy did what was called a "till tap" and took out the appropriate amount and gave the employee a receipt...
I won against my mechanic last year ($5000). He refused to pay... until police arrived to start seizing his property. He went to the bank and submitted the payment to the court by the end of the day. 🫠 Edit: Shout-out to Steve! I live in Michigan and his channel helped me get these positive results.
@sophiedash4026 I was just joking, although it has happened as per videos on this channel. As for your responses, I know with TH-cam there can be a few different factors, for example, there's different levels of filtering the channel owners can use, so it may be that somehow your posts were 'triggering' the filter to require approval. I've had issues on livestreams where my posts disappeared, but the streamer did see them. There should have been nothing about the post to cause issues.
The engine was screwed even before the first mechanic touched it…engine sludge. That timing chain will go downhill if you don’t keep up on maintenance. She’s just blaming him.
The part that makes me angry is that if you do not pay a mechanic they put a lien on your vehicle, but this woman now has to go through additional stress and hassle because of this.
One thing that I started doing years ago before anybody even touched my vehicle was writing on the bottom of any paperwork next to my signature is: "I am only authorizing the work stated in this document." This puts mechanic's shops on point before they even start working on your vehicle.
There was a couple that sued Bank of America and won a judgement. Bank of America wasn't paying so the couple had the sheriff go to the local bank branch and start taking computers, chairs, desks, etc.. Sounds like this needs to happen. Go start taking his tools.
Master Tech here. It's probably the cam/crank correlation (out of sync) code that tripped months before the timing chain failed and the engine introduced its pistons to its valves and they really had a banging time. Customer drags it in saying it won't run and says it was just idling and died.
one or more correlation error codes can be set when the powertrain computer compares and detects an error between crankshaft and camshaft position sensors. so it all depends on weather or not it is an interference or a none interference turbo encabulator but, either way 2nd mechanic sounds as though he knew all about the state of the car just before 1st mechanic touched it. i'd fix it a lot faster for 5x more money too.
This is why mechanics should video record the diagnostic phase and the fix. If it ever goes to court you have the video of where you were in the engine and the condition it was in when you got there.
A story my husband told me - Apparently there's someone out there who owes him thousands of dollars from a judgement that concluded a couple decades ago and the guy refused to pay. Apparently the court system in NYS told my hubby that he CANNOT apply to have wages garnished or anything like you described, that the only way he'll ever get paid is if this guy ever sells property in the state, then the money owed on the judgement will automatically come out of that sale. Does that sound correct?
No, that doesn’t sound right unless the debtor was judgment proof, ie, no job, bank accounts,, stocks, real property, etc. Your husband probably never renewed the judgment, so it’s likely way past the time he can try to have the judgment satisfied. I practiced in NY for a while & for decades in DC courts, although I wasn’t involved in collecting debts in NY.
depending on the state you can, but it usually requires multiple attempts to collect through all the other various methods like garnishment, tax returns yaddy yadda. drunk dude folded my truck like a taco and ran. He did it in a company truck he claimed didnt belong to him but was his friends company. But the idiot kept posting on his facebook page the company was his, he plead he was poor and had no assets and belongings [claimed it was his friends stuff] but would constantly post pictures of his new tools and other nonsense. Had to collect nearly a year of evidence of him flexing on FB and after alot of back and forth and judge sent people out there to start seizing stuff until at auction till the settlement was paid. His friend would be like "you cant take that its mine. They would ask if he had a title or receipt with his his name or company name on it to prove it was his, if he said no, it went in the truck to be auctioned.
I'm glad that the laws in non-USA countries allow collection through a far simpler procedure. Once you get a judgement, if it's not paid or appealed within the required time, you just apply to transfer to the High Court and get the sheriff's department to go collect on your behalf. They also collect not only your debt, but your court and application fees, and their own collection fees, so a small debt can cost a lot more in the end. So as long as the person who owes money has the assets, you wind up reimbursed for everything you spent.
A Smart technician would have opened up the engine, found the sludge from customer neglect, documented it, and contacted the customer. If customer refuses to acknowledge the condition, put it back together. Give it back to the customer no charge. Have a nice day. Like Steve’s T-shirt says you can’t fix stupid.
Found sludge *on* the engine. Now, this sounds to me, something like a bad valve cover gadget leaking or someone being sloppy when filling the oil. I mean, with dust and build-up that can cause sludge on the exterior of the heads and/or block.
Yep, collecting is a thing! My late husband wrote a CLE book[let?] called ‘The Collection and Enforcement of Judgments,’ sometime back in the ‘70’s and taught a few CLE classes in NY. He would have so enjoyed you! Sadly, there are times when one ends up with wall paper. lol
I'm filing a small claims complaint against my former landlord who threw out $9000 of my property. He thinks I'll just drop it. He doesn't know me very well....😡
Thank you for at least acknowledging that the collections process exists! People always seem to throw up their hands and act like it's an impossible task to collect on a judgement. As someone who works with garnishments, that's just false. Credit card companies and car companies are excellent at collecting their money.
Mr Court Clerk, I am buried with cases and I cant possibly interview him until next Thursday. Ill bet he would have called his bride and said, “ Lamb Chop, please hand deliver the check to the lady so I can get out of jail”. Bride responds, “ Sweetie, Im a little busy and cant do it until Friday of next week. Ill bring you some magazines”.
Master mechanic here. Correlation codes means the cams and crank are mistimed. If it happened after he worked on the timing belt then he screwed up and didn't double check timing before he fired it up possibly resulting in pistons striking valves. If it came in that way before he worked on it he should have done a better job explaining the issue and what additional costs may be involved.
* a sludged engine may exhibit timing issues due to blocked oil ports to the variable timing system.
Shade tree mechanic here. Even I know that much. He screwed it up, obviously.
Auto tech for 38 years, sounds like he may not have done a cylinder leak down test before he started the repair to check for bent valves,etc.But at this point we are just guessing.
Exactly! The whole thing sounds like a mess that will never be understood by all parties
From what is said it sounds like he didn't know about it before hand since he was saying he would do the extra work for free. This honestly sounds like either a mechanic that thinks he can do a timing chain but really couldn't, or someone who does meth and as soon as they got into the motor they decided to go way too far and messed everything up. "oh there is some sludge, I'll just take the whole thing apart and put it back together."
Isn't $700 far too low for a timing chain replacement?
I've replaced timing chains myself and the parts were almost $700 including the 2 specialty tools from Ford.
It was a 2004? ish Ford Escape with a crappy 4-cylinder engine and even worse CVT transmission.
(Almost none of these cars are still on the road today for these reasons I'm listing).
I got the timing chain and tensioners all squared away. The engine ran great for about another year before that CVT transmission grenade itself on the highway at 75mph and the girl I was dating at the time decided to let it go back to the bank because she was still upside down after getting scammed by a shady used car salesman while she was in college. It was her first car and first credit. Screw those people that prey on young beautiful naive college students working waitress jobs to get through school.
Anyway I seem to remember I spent more than $700 on parts, tools and the book.
Am I wrong on this $700 being too low for this repair? Vehicle dependent of course.
The billion dollar company I worked for was sued by a former employee. The company didn't show up for court, and the employee won his case. The company ignored the court ruling, I guess because they thought they were too big. Sheriffs showed up with about 30 wreckers and started hauling off vehicles owned by the company. I know because I was in one of the vehicles and they made me get my personal stuff and get out. Very shortly, corporate cut a check to cover the lawsuit.
Kohl’s owed me around 50 cents. They would not budge until I served them.
Companies won’t budge until the law forces their hand.
And that ultimately is how judgements are supposed to work. You pay now or you pay when the sheriff's department shows up to take your stuff to cover the judgement.
Name the company if you don’t work for them any more
That’s one thing I like about the UK over the US. If someone doesn’t pay it can be escalated and the sheriffs can basically force you to pay or take stuff to recoup the money.
I’ve got a judgement against someone for 10 years now and haven’t collected a dime because she doesn’t work and if I try to find out if/where she works, she makes various criminal accusations. All I can do I wait for her to buy a house or to find out where she banks.
@@carmp3fan I've been watching several series on TH-cam that follow those UK judgement settlements "Can't pay? We'll take it away" is a favorite. On a different series, Delta Airlines owed a UK traveler comp for a flight issue. Wouldn't pay. The bailiffs showed up at LHR and held a delta airplane until they paid the $2000.00 or so.
I found out 40 years ago, winning a judgement and collecting a judgement are completely different issues.
Yup.
I worked for a company that tried to get out of paying a $1500 bill for work done by another company, Marshals seized property worth millions. The company I was working for payed the $1500 by the end of the day...
did u collect?
Ive learned this year, the court system is only effective if there is someone willing to enforce a judges orders
Yeah cops
small claims is UNENFORCIBLE by anyone in most states.
@@SuperDrumwolfthat's when you talk to a lawyer. You can collect straight from his accounts or collect his equipment to cover the amount. I guarantee that if you start collecting his equipment he's going to pay so that he can continue working.
@@SuperDrumwolf Apparently, I am not in "most states" because I easily got a court order to garnish wages for repayment of damage to my property.
@@growinglifeorganic940 cops dont do that lol.
She needs to get the sheriff to seize assets for collection. Tools are expensive! A photographer didn't produce our wedding photos. For two years we asked. We sued and won. When we went after his equipment, the pictures magically appeared!
In Ohio you only have 14 days to appeal a small claims decision. To get the sheriff to seize assets you have to get a writ of execution. That means going back to court. You also have to potentially pay an upfront fee to the sheriff's office. Now my guess is he has a lawyer preparing a Bankruptcy case. Once filed all collection activities must stop. I am betting they are waiting until a Motion for Execution is filed. Then they will file the bankruptcy petition. In all likelihood she will not see any money.
Don’t know about other states, but in California, if a judgment debtor owns a shop, you can have the sheriff take money directly from the register to pay you
A friend was a musician who played at bars, A bar owner refused to pay her, she got a judgement against him, he refused to pay her. At about 11 PM on New Years Eve, she showed up with a sheriffs deputy and cleaned out the till. This lady needs to go seize his tool box.
Wow. I wonder how that made the sheriffs department look..
@@123ElectricMonkey It's the sheriffs department job to enforce court orders,
In Ohio, if you refuse to pay a small claim award, you can be found "in contempt of court" and jailed. Doesn't happen often but is a possibility.
That's why Ohio sucks
@@rdillon517 because Ohio has a good law for holding people accountable?
@@rdillon517any specifics?
@jrcIII who couldn't join the military and why?
Nope. Check the Ohio Constitution, Article I, section 15. What can happen is that someone can be held in contempt when they refuse to show up for a court hearing where assets to satisfy a judgment are at issue, but as soon as they show up and provide the information, released.
A neighbor in 2013 cut all the bushes that adjoined our properties without knowing exactly where the property line was located. Long story short, I had to hire a surveyor, and then put a fence up between our properties. I went the small claims route and awarded $3700.00. Then I was paid $25 every other week for 3 years until I saw a for sale sign in front of her house, hired a lawyer to put a lien on her house, and was finally sent a check by her lawyer after the closing on her house. I just refused to let her arrogance get away with destroying my property while having a smug look on her face. She even dismissed the cops that came after I caught back in my yard the second time, I caught her on my property before I had the fence installed!!!
I went this route with a shared fence that rotted out. In my state, property owners share costs on fences 50/50. Fence fell over in a wind storm, needed replacement. She initially agreed, very personable, neighborly. Asked if I would manage the replacement and she would pay me after work was done. After work was done, she made excuse after excuse, never paid. I sued in small claims court, she did not show up, and got a judgement, still did not pay. I put a lien on her property and she was furious when she sold it a few years later and had to cut me a check.
@@RJHerber lien is about $300 in California. In any other state in the union probably $100 and small claims cost $35 fee and no attorney necessary.
@@RJHerber You don't have to have a lawyer for everything in court. Some things actually are easy to accomplish. But, they're working on changing that real soon now. 😉
@@RJHerber Lawyer cost me $275.00 to put lien on her property, I represented myself in small claims court.
@@RJHerber court costs not cort
In Texas, the judge can sign a Writ of attachment and the Constables will show up and start taking the company property until they auction off enough to pay the judgement. Happens every day.
Called a "writ of execution" in other places. Steve has a great video on a Florida couple who sued a bank for foreclosing on a house that they'd paid in full for on purchase (thus no mortgage to foreclose on). Bank wouldn't cut them a check until the sheriffs showed up at a branch location with trucks, ready to haul off furniture, fixtures, and computers.
@@josepherhardt164do you know the name of the video or the episode? This is one I'd like to listen to.
The same thing with the US Marshals . They WILL take everything you own to satisfy the judgment and fees. It's in the United States CFR.
@@chris122380 I just tried to find it and failed. I did find an article from 2017. Search for
FLORIDA COUPLE GIVEN PERMISSION TO SEIZE BANK OF AMERICA’S ASSETS
for the details.
Are Constables what other states call Sheriff? Or is there a difference
Hells, I've had a judgment against a fraudster for 20 years and he hasn't paid a cent.
unless the judge sends a bailiff to force the mechanic to pay by taking his equipment, tools and auction them off.
Yeah, I've been there. But it goes against their credit forever essentially, unless it's resolved. I've had fraudsters contact me ten years later or more asking me drop the judgement. Yeah, right.
Same here. Only in my case he fled the state to avoid paying.
Some people are simply noncollectable - cannot squeeze water from a rock...if they have nothing it is hard to collect.
Correlation codes are referring to cam timing and crank timing are not what the car computer expects to see under driving conditions.
Instead of a mechanic's lien, we have a lien on a mechanic.
Then you get the Sheriff to lean on the mechanic.
@@richdiddens4059
And the Sheriff is named Lynn.
My dad worked at a real estate management company many years ago. Told me that every month, people would come in to pay off judgements from years, if not decades, before. They had finally grown up, settled down, and wanted to get a loan for a car or house or whatever that required a credit check, but couldn't until the judgement was satisfied.
Yes but in 2017 judgements are no longer on credit reports
I bet he'll pay if she marches down there with a deputy and starts seizing tools and equipment. If you have a judgment that is well within your rights if they are refusing to pay. You can seize however much equipment is worth the value of the judgment. She starts grabbing his tools he would cut her a check really quick.
That assumes you can get the sheriff to get off his butt. Usually it takes months.
Not the way that works. And it's a good way to get yourself hurt. It's a civil matter and in most cases cops wont enforce a civil matter. They just tell you to go to court.
It’s not a civil matter after the judgment has been handed out. Failure to pay a judgment is criminal.
@@MarineVeteran0351 if you go to a Sheriff and say you have a court ordered judgment that the person is refusing to pay they will 100% help you. It's part of their job. Them or the US Marshalls.
@@MarineVeteran0351that’s why you need the sheriff there with you
From the Louisiana Illuminator - "Mar 15, 2023 - Louisiana lawmakers declined to change a law that lets cities and parishes refuse to pay judgments against them in court." The City of New Orleans does not pay judgements against them either. This came to my attention because of police misconduct resulting in a judgement that was not being paid.
Great state to reside in….
Start taking and selling city property. When arrested for "stealing" you have plenty of evidence for a jury trial.
@@stephengreen3566they won't let you present anything you want to a jury, sadly. No first amendment inside a courtroom.
And these cities wonder why they get random revolts agasinst them with mass rioting. If the city is corrupt people will get angery and often resort to unlawful acts in response to the city's unlawful acts.
@@jiaan100 If the judge accepts it as evidence then yes you can. A legal judgement against the city would likely be allowed as evidence.
Had a co-worker take a big telco to small claim. They never showed and continue to not only refuse to correct the error and give him his money back, but kept overcharging him.
Refused to pay and tried to tie him up in red tape, claiming it had to be approved or some other BS.
Somehow, when a legal officer showed up at the main office with the cops and a warrant to start seizing equipment until the judgment was satisfied by auctioning said equipment, approval took only a few minutes.
They responded only after getting their asses branded.
On this side of the world, it's practically certain that someone would have lost their job over that kerfuffle. Perhaps more than one "someone" since it's a failure on at least two fronts, one being the failure to respond to the court notice and the second being the failure to comply with the court's orders. Then there's a possible third person responsible for causing the over-charging in the first place.
$700 is cheap for a good quality timing chain kit AND quality labor to install.
That should have been a red flag right away.
That was the up-front charge. Although, I have never had the experience of a mechanic requiring an up-front cost, so that would be the red flag on its own.
Also I would never have known that was a bit cheep since I don’t know about cars. That’s why I ask someone to come with me
I wouldnt use the word cheap. Inexpensive would be a better word. 🤔@nodak81
It would depend on the car and engine. Some engines the timing belt is right up front and can be replaced in less than a half hour.
Lexus only charged my wife $400.
The amount of money he's going to spend on a lawyer he should just pay for the engine
He's bluffing. He doesn't have a lawyer, and there isn't any way a lawyer can help him other than to advise him to pay the lady.
Agreed. He hasn't talked to a lawyer because if he did the lawyer would have told him that it would cost him more in fees.
If he wants to appeal, he has to put up a deposit or bond for the amount of the judgement (and possible interest) before he can even ask for a hearing date for his appeal.
It may seem repressive, but it is a way to reduce the number of frivolous "run out the clock" appeals.
Early in my father's legal career, he had sued a cab company that wouldn't pay when they lost. He went to to their office with a sheriff's deputy and took their radio and antenna. Needless to say they soon payed up.
If it is AAA shop and you are an AAA member then they (AAA) can get involved. Most AAA shops don't want to lose that preferred status.
And AAA takes reports against who they recommend highly. I reported one and he lost his AAA status in about a month
@@ViThePrincess Yes! We didn't win money just replacement of a warranted part.
My daughter threatened to get a lawyer to sue him for not replacing bad part. He defamed her as being in collusion with a recently dismissed employee.
He said to her to not threaten things she wouldn't do (lawyer). He was completely in the wrong so she would have gotten a lawyer, but we first went to AAA.
Tune changed. He would have others talk to her plus she got her warranted repair done.
At first I found AAA as a comforting backup for my daughter (and myself, but didn't get it until daughter was driving).
AAA resolving this without needing a lawyer and potentially long litigation was priceless.
Plus how small the owner acted after AAA showed up vs when he was abusively berating my daughter as a thief for not accepting a non-working part.
Cam-Crank correlation codes USUALLY mean engine has skipped time, meaning crankshaft and camshaft(s) are no longer timed properly. Can cause minor issues like rough running and sluggishness all the way to bent valves and broken pistons depending on how far out of time the engine is.
In the mechanic's defense, if the engine had jumped timing, the engine might have been damaged before he got it. Him finding sludge is evidence that it was poorly maintained by the owner. On the other hand, if the mechanic didn't install the timing chain correctly, that would trash the engine as soon as he tried to start it. He could also be using the "I found sludge and was trying to clean it" as an excuse for taking apart the engine to try to fix his mistake. Interesting case.
Sludge, its not worth fixing the engine in some cases. Drop a used or remanufactured engine in and call it a day. Pop off the valve covers during the timing chain job and you call the engine DOA if its sludged. Or you continue on and possibly get poor results and unhappy people.
@@mph5896 Thing is it's normal to call the customer. We have the right to say, "Just do exactly as I requested, or just put it back together." At that point the Mechanic is off the hook. A single phone call of "We found other issues." One every car owner has probably received.
True or not, that is irrelevant once the court has made a decision and the case closed.
I had a judgement against a landlord. Because my cancelled checks had his bank deposit information on it, was able get the judgement directly from his account. No waiting involved. I'm sure he probably had whiplash from quickly his money disappeared without knowing it.
Things like this are why my younger boy got out of being a car mechanic for the public after spending over $30k on school. He worked in a small family owned shop that mostly worked on older higher mileage vehicles. The vehicles usually had more issues than they were brought in for. And customers didn't understand when they were told about others things that were tied to their initial problems. They would get really upset. My son moved on to being a tractor mechanic, which he loved, but the pay wasn't there. His friend roped him into working for a chemical company that has cleaning products for food processing plants (mostly). He now installs and works on pumps for chemicals and fabrics brackets and stands for the equipment. I'm glad I never went into the mechanic industry. I wanted to go to the same school my son went to. I only work on my own stuff. But I do send many things to my local shop. And I do understand the rabbit holes that snowball from years of hard use and mileage. Things like heat cycles that cause plastics to break down and become brittle and metal to warp over time.
The court system sucks!! I got a judgement against a former tenant,they wouldn't pay!! The judge told me good luck getting the money. What a bunch of crap!! So I stole their car, n sold it for parts!!! By the way this was 25 years ago!!
ah the statue of limitations lol
@@llama9274 Brilliant!
You got the sheriff to take his car legally due to having the judgement....or you're admitting to committing ba crime?
So it was YOU! By the way, that car was on loan to my cousin! I'll be seeing you in court!🤨🤣
I subpoenad someone for a creditor's exam. They lied and left out a bunch of stuff and no consequences. It's not that clear cut.
02:28 I'll stop you there Steve. If everything was 'out of whack' after a timing belt change, then he got the timing wrong. That can, and usually does result in massive damage to the engine as valves open and close at the wrong times, and pistons smash into them, then the fragments of metal get gouged along the cylinder linings, sometimes jamming the pistons which causes yet more damage.. it can chain all the way through and basicly turn the block into a chunk of scrap, and litter the ground under the vehicle with bits of engine that break through the casing. Nevermind 'codes' and stuff, that wasnt what the car was in for, he shouldnt have TOUCHED anything besides what was authorised. And to me it sounds like he pooched that up real badly.
That is assuming that whatever this vehicle is has an interference engine
@@systemsbroken I'll grant that there are many non-interference engines, but they're in the minority, really. Odds are, hers wasnt.
This case might benefit from having another mechanic examine the engine to try to find out what really happened and whose fault it was. I can imagine that it could have been the customer's fault for ignoring bad noises until serious damage was done, and it could also have been the mechanic's fault if he fitted the chain wrongly or turned the engine while the chain was not fitted (if it is an interference engine). Did the court make any sort of investigation?
@@cedriclynch It was in for the timing belt replacement *only*. That would suggest there were no other issues, otherwise he'd have brought them up on inspection, surely. Especially if the engine was throwing codes as he insists.
@@Graytail Was it a belt or a chain? This would make a difference to whether it is likely that the customer would hear noises before failure.
You should've said that you had no free appointment slots on Monday. LOL.
Steve's comment reminded me of long ago when I was in college and took the bus home. The bus was very late. My brother was there to get me from the station to home. I saw him and he asked for a dollar. I gave it to him and he said "now you are a day late and a dollar short." It was good and I told him to keep the dollar.
Sounds like he made mistakes and then tried to fix them afterwards. In over his head.
Unless we were there we have no idea.
I ran a successful garage for over 40 years. People seem to think when you touch their car that you are responsible for anything that goes wrong after they get it back...
A timing chain can last a million miles, so how did this lady know this was the issue a d wanted it replaced. As if a chain has caused any issues, that has knock on effects, especially if there is sludge in engine as stated.
Doing timing without solving other issues may result in forced warranty work and repair failure. He probably felt he was doing the right thing. Correlation codes are sensors saying timing alignment is off between crank and cam system.
just out of curiosity, would u get correlation codes after failing to install a timing chain with all parts oriented correctly?
@@outseeker Absolutely it could. Most shops take and save a repair report at the start of a repair that is time stamped. There can be failed repair still even with that proof yes. Too many variables. Would almost need another mechanic to verify actual current state of vehicle to really know.
He was covering his ass. He did work that was not authorized.
@@outseeker a few things could cause correlation faults, cam gears/phasers could fail. Cam solenoids, tensioners, chain stretch, sensors, internal oiling failure, wiring ect. Then you got to worry if it’s an interference engine and was damage done before you touch it.
Anythings possible, but better to offer proof, of which I have none. It also would have been cheaper to just pay if guilty rather then instead getting an attorney.
He literally went on TV and told the entire world that he took apart the engine without asking her if he could.
Replacing a timing chain can involve major engine parts removal.
So he has not done extra work. Do you know what's involved in replacing a timing chain ???
You have to take the engine apart to get to the chain, the tensioner/s, the guides, sprockets etc
@@evelghostridermost of the time it does not mean to take off the head unless you are doing a gasket swap. Which isn’t being said here as Steve is saying it’s just a timing chain. I do understand some hoses, air filters or engine side covers might be in the way. I do wonder how he wrecked the motor
@@Nonexistanthuman Maybe he didn't use the tool to keep everything in place while removing the timing chain.
Timing chain is not like a belt, the chain is inside the engine casings as they have constant oil flow. I had a successful garage for over 35 years and you always get customers who think you done something if their car breaks down after you have worked at it.@Nonexistanthuman
In business for 40 years in this field and own and managed numerous shops and thousands of customers. If engine was sludged technician should have suggested an engine replacement. Sludge is due to extended services and lack of maintenance and with vct engines it is critical on services and oil viscosity. He took liability for touching the job or attempting this job unless he sent it away because of these issues after inspection. He could have been not liable if he had a lawyer in the beginning if he didn't attempt repairs seeing the sludge and him being the professional should know better. It is like a doctor opening a person up and finding out it is worse that test and xrays and sews you up and nothing can be done and it was due to smoking for 50 years and far worse after getting into surgery.
Only a mechanic taking that motor completely down will tell the whole story, it could be be so many possibilities, instead guessing they would know.
Manufactures are doing 15k+ oil changes recommendations is destroying engines. I remember 3k then syn oil allowed 7500. It’s just laziness
Finally someone who knows what they are talking about. You are right that where he messed up was taking the job. I'm sure you also understand the single mom with 4 kids who never even checked the oil in the 4 years she has been beating the tires off the car begging and pleading that you take a look. Seem like people think the timing code came after he did the job. I am sure it hadn't seen an oil change in years, the tensioner got gummed up, the timing chain rubbed through the nylon/plastic or whatever pad was on the guide then after a lot of racket it jumped timing. This poor guy felt bad and tried to help but the damage was done. But what does she care she is getting a new to her car. Or he could have been a pos. I have just seen similar things at the small town shop.
Sounds like it's time for the Sheriff to swing by and start collecting some tools, to satisfy the judgment.
Time for her to get a . . . "Mechanic's lien"!
Nope. She's got a court order. Take it to the county sheriff and they'll start taking property from the shop to be sold at auction and the proceeds given to her
It's sarcasm.🤦♂️
@@danielseelye6005😂😂😂😂 that whooshing sound was the punch line going over your head
@@pasques Not that much of a punchline.
LOL total man bites dog!
This immediately sounds like an Audi
Omg, I had an Audi A100 that was a nightmare. Loved the car, hated the car, 5 cylinder aluminum garbage.
Huh?
Or a 5.4 ford
Hahahaha yup
That's some high price horse dung ain't it.....
Years ago I went to small claims court with my mom. A contractor did a poor tile job on the kitchen floor - he used WALL tiles on the floor, so tiles were cracking all over. The contractor goes away on vacation and when he came back refused to fix it. In small claims court he lost - we showed the judge pictures and brought one of the cracked tiles to show him. We were awarded a $1500 judgment to restore the floor with correct tiles (this was back in the 80s - today would be much more). Turns out the contractor did pay the judgment without any hassles.
Wall tiles are often used on floors, that is not the problem. The problem is that he did not use enough adhesive when laying them. I am not a pro at this, but I have done several with no cracks. And they are literally Hell to get up.
@@heroesandzeros7802 No these tiles were NOT designed for floor use - it said so on the box! We used that as evidence too in small claims court (he left a box behind with a few spares). Some may be formulated for either/or, but at the time these were not, since he was in a rush to go on vacation he picked the wrong ones in haste. They were decorative in nature and would not stand up to the rigors of people walking on them with shoes especially.
@@chrisguli2865 I was in a hotel that I swear must have put wall tiles on the floor. In an accessible bathroom it was nearly impossible to walk on a wet floor without slipping! What puzzled me was that the tiles’ shape I did not ally see as floor tiles. In the had there was a slope and even without water that also seemed slick. As I recall it was not the same pattern, not sure if it was a related tile.
Never pay up front, you can tell how good your mechanic is by the size of his boat
Or RV
Winning a judgement, is not the same as getting paid. Bob owed lots of money, to lots of people, and just didnt pay any of them. He started working for cash. One guy could not accept the loss, chased Bob all the way across the country, and knocked on Bob's door. It did not end well for him. You cannot harrass someone whom owes you money.
Chances are the engine got damaged by him improperly putting on the timing chain and he took it off again
Where I live if somebody doesn't pay a judgment, you take the sheriffs over there and you start seizing assets.
My understanding of these judgments to pay, if they don't pay once ordered, you must go get an order from the court for the sheriff to seize enough property (personal property first) to sell to get enough funds to settle the judgment.
I had a judgment against my former roommate. He didn't pay a penny, so I had to file more paperwork to garnish his wage at his work.
I was sued for $1 million in NYS Supreme Court, I counter sued for $90k that was owed to me. I won the counter suit and the law suit against me. The guy filed bankruptcy and I never saw a cent. Except a $30k legal bill. I won everywhere and felt like I lost
Nice story but if all judgements could be quashed by merely filing bankruptcy, the entire tort system would be rendered mute...
@@chele-chele I wish that were true and you were correct.
I hope you at least contacted his trustee in bankruptcy and lodged proof of your claim with the trustee? If not, then it's no wonder you never saw a cent of your money. The trustee has to pay debts in a particular priority order, which is government first (e.g. taxes), secured creditors second (mortages and other secured loans) and then all unsecured claims last. But if you never even lodged a proof of claim, then you get nothing automatically, even if the money was there to pay your claim.
(Source: Nearly 20 years in a related field working for a government authority)
@@melkiorwiseman5234if the lawyers got their money, they should have collected on his behalf as well. His lawyers got paid and left their client out to dry with nothing. His lawyers completely failed him😡
That’s how they rigged the court system up. Can thank the lawsuit junkies suing anyone they can for money. Eventually now it turns to over priced fees on both sides. Even can be weaponized to drain bank accounts by having to prove innocents on frivolous lawsuits. No innocent till proven guilty. Just here is a lawsuit now fight.
Many know from experience that it’s not in your best interest to ignore the order of a judge.
Unless you are a Democrat then you can ignore everything.
Ppl are getting away with open and very public defiance of judge's orders now days. I have no confidence in our justice system any more.
@@bobbarker1798good. It doesn't exist to serve us or justice, it exists to protect the rich and powerful. See: Einstein getting a work release plea deal (what was his work again? lmao) in 2009 in exchange for not snitching, because he worked for intelligence. (Sorry for spelling the name wrong I'm trying to evade the ai censors)
@@jiaan100When one is tasked by the three letter bois to entrap and get dirt on the wealthy and powerful, it's in your best interests to also get dirt on the three letter bois who hired you.
Trouble is you usually run out of usefulness sooner or later and they Einstein you in your jail cell and make everything bad disappear.
@@jiaan100 oi! Don't dis Einstein for something Epstein did. They are 2 totally different people that did 2 totally different things.
If he won't pay up, get a court order to put a lien on his property. He'll pay up if he's smart.
Mechanic probably dropped the ball by not taking pictures and bailing out of the job after he opened it up and found it full of sludge. Almost impossible to fix it right if the engine is full of sludge. Cam/crank correlation codes are likely due to cam timing actuators not working properly due to sludge or plugged oil ports. He made the customer's problem his problem.
no good deed goes unpunished......
I have this situation with Take 5 Oil Change here in Ohio that damaged my car. They didn’t show up to small claims court and I got a default judgment, which they refuse to pay. There’s a process where you can get the Sheriff’s department to take and sell inventory, which I’m doing.
Who told her she needed a timing chain? She was shopping around for a low price. If the chain had jumped already, the damage was done. If he installed improperly, damage is done. If during the timing chain replacement he discovered timing chain guides broken that possibly made its way to the oil pan, broken cam phasers, cam sensors, or blocked oil passages he should have stopped and asked what she wanted to do. We dont know the whole story. Small claims in NY, you have 2 choices. Go before a judge. His rule can be appealed . Go before an arbitrator with judgment being final.
we do know the whole story. she won in court, he needs to pay, case closed
@@Gamesso1slOo0lno as it is often possible to appeal, plus the people acting as judges in small claims court are not actual judges, plus often are idiots. A ruling doesn't mean you have a clue as to what happened.
Why should he, our courts are a laughingstock in the US!
Correlation codes are cam and crank timming related
This means it arrived in that condition. That's a red flag and I'm not a mechanic.
This reminds me of a homeowner that sued a bank for false foreclosure. The homeowners won and waited to collect. Never heard anything and had sheriffs go to the local branch and start seizing assets of the bank. Bank wrote a check real fast. They even had a moving van for the furniture. 🤣
In the UK, something similar takes place. And the sheriffs charge for their time and trouble, which gets added to the debt which has to be paid by whoever they're collecting from. If they have to hire a truck to take something they're seizing, that gets added to the debt and has to be paid even if the truck is subsequently cancelled, since the company who supplies the truck still has to be paid for their time.
We took a carpenter to small claims and got a $2K judgement after he no showed twice....nice, But then he refused to ever return any correspondence from the court about payment and somehow never surfaced again, until a couple of years later he OD's on something and died. We thought about challenging whatever estate he had left behind but by that time we we're just over it.
In Ohio you have 14 days to file an appeal to a magistrates decision in small claims court.
Ben turned his back to us in front of the Virginia plate.
Lawyer here. I practiced in the DC local & federal courts for many years. The debtor could file bankruptcy for his business or himself individually, depending on which was the defendant. It’s a fairly easy process, although it must be less than fun & as an individual, it would have repercussions for years to come.
As the former owner of a moving company, I sued 6 people in my first 12 months. They would stop payment on a check. I won all cases. All 6 never paid me anything after the judgements were filed. They're poor people. So there's nothing to place a lien on.
Which means I personally paid for their move. I paid for the truck, gas, labor, for free. Tying up time I could've been with a paying customer.
My solution? Raised my rates from $85hr to $130hr. Stopped moving anyone on a 3rd floor. And changed my advertising to appeal to wealthy people. Never had to sue again.
Shouldn't you get payment before moving?
@@21972012145525 No. That's not the industry standard.
Way back in the mid 90s a friend stopped his car off for an oil change When he went back they told him it wasn't done and he'd have to come back int next day (happened to be a Friday). When he went back in on the Monday afternoon he was present a bill of $4200 for a new running belt and head gasket. Not only did he not need the work, he didn't approve the work and he was never asked to approve the work. The shop refused to give him his car until he paid the bill so he had no choice and filed a suit against them. The courts sided with the shop. This is when I started doing as much work to my own car as I possibly could.
Lots of missing information on that one.
A day late and a dollar short
Story of my life
Depending on the state, you don't have to pay a civil suit.
Ben standing tall behind the titanic money box.
she needs to send some friendly Italian ":businessmen" over to negotiate with this "mechanic"....
My brother won a small claims judgement against a contractor for $1,000 but the contractor refused to pay. My brother then went to the local bank with a Deputy Sheriff (small town) and the judgement to clean out the guy's account (to the judgement amount). My brother got about 1/2 and was never able to get the rest because the contractor closed his account and eventually put his house in his daughter's name. Different state so different rules.
That would have been a simple lawsuit in regards to the house and the daughter as it was clearly done to evade the judgement. Been there, done that.
In Seattle in the 1980s there was a crooked parking lot company. Long story short, woman in my office won a case in small claims court...company laughed at her. In some manner, a procedure was put into place where a County Sheriff's deputy accompanied the woman to a company facility and the deputy did what was called a "till tap" and took out the appropriate amount and gave the employee a receipt...
I won against my mechanic last year ($5000). He refused to pay... until police arrived to start seizing his property. He went to the bank and submitted the payment to the court by the end of the day. 🫠
Edit: Shout-out to Steve! I live in Michigan and his channel helped me get these positive results.
At least they didn't pay in pennies ;).
@@tech34756 Yeah, I just had to wait 2 weeks for the check to clear and be processed by the court.
@@tech34756 Yeah, I just had to wait 2 weeks for the check to clear and be released to me.
@tech34756 I have attempted to reply to you several times, and TH-cam keeps removing them. I don't understand why. We are talking about a check...
@sophiedash4026 I was just joking, although it has happened as per videos on this channel.
As for your responses, I know with TH-cam there can be a few different factors, for example, there's different levels of filtering the channel owners can use, so it may be that somehow your posts were 'triggering' the filter to require approval.
I've had issues on livestreams where my posts disappeared, but the streamer did see them. There should have been nothing about the post to cause issues.
Ben in front of the VA plate; screen right, Steve’s left
A mechanic sounds like someone very easy to collect judgements on. Walk in with a deputy and grab a case of snap-on tools. Job done.
depends, iirc some places won't allow you to touch tools needed for the person to make income so tools could be off limits.
The mechanic is a pos, he needs to be forced to pay.
The engine was screwed even before the first mechanic touched it…engine sludge. That timing chain will go downhill if you don’t keep up on maintenance. She’s just blaming him.
@deplorablelibertarian , these newer engines are a lot more maintenance sensitive. Especially dual overhead cams with plastic chain tensioners.
@deplorablelibertarian no
700$ for a timing chain and a week? Red flags galore. She should have asked around, he is a crook
Everybody all of the sudden a master mechanic.
I love Steve's story. 😂 Good judge! That's true justice.
The part that makes me angry is that if you do not pay a mechanic they put a lien on your vehicle, but this woman now has to go through additional stress and hassle because of this.
One thing that I started doing years ago before anybody even touched my vehicle was writing on the bottom of any paperwork next to my signature is: "I am only authorizing the work stated in this document." This puts mechanic's shops on point before they even start working on your vehicle.
Iys really frustrating that we cant read the whole shirt😂😂😂😂😂
The bottom of his shirt says:
"If you can read this
My camera needs to be adjusted"
There was a couple that sued Bank of America and won a judgement. Bank of America wasn't paying so the couple had the sheriff go to the local bank branch and start taking computers, chairs, desks, etc..
Sounds like this needs to happen. Go start taking his tools.
Ben in mug behind the tacks of the titanic .
Master Tech here. It's probably the cam/crank correlation (out of sync) code that tripped months before the timing chain failed and the engine introduced its pistons to its valves and they really had a banging time. Customer drags it in saying it won't run and says it was just idling and died.
Ben is standing in front of the SLEHTO tag on Steve's LHS
@SteveLehto I loved the part where the clerk said, "We're going to hold him until you can do the exam. How does Monday look for you?"!
As far as the codes for correlation, I refer you to the turbo encabulator
one or more correlation error codes can be set when the powertrain computer compares and detects an error between crankshaft and camshaft position sensors.
so it all depends on weather or not it is an interference or a none interference turbo encabulator but, either way 2nd mechanic sounds as though he knew all about the state of the car just before 1st mechanic touched it.
i'd fix it a lot faster for 5x more money too.
This is why mechanics should video record the diagnostic phase and the fix. If it ever goes to court you have the video of where you were in the engine and the condition it was in when you got there.
Including the general inspection phase, existing body damage as well.
A judge can strip a mechanic of his license. Sounds like this mechanic needs to go out of business.
DUCT TAPE: IT CAN'T FIX STUPID BUT IT CAN COVER OPEN ORAFICES...
Gotta love OK
Never operate a business without being incorperated.
Ben’s checking out the SLEHTO plate.
I wish he would face the audience...
Mornin' Bill
A story my husband told me - Apparently there's someone out there who owes him thousands of dollars from a judgement that concluded a couple decades ago and the guy refused to pay. Apparently the court system in NYS told my hubby that he CANNOT apply to have wages garnished or anything like you described, that the only way he'll ever get paid is if this guy ever sells property in the state, then the money owed on the judgement will automatically come out of that sale. Does that sound correct?
No, that doesn’t sound right unless the debtor was judgment proof, ie, no job, bank accounts,, stocks, real property, etc. Your husband probably never renewed the judgment, so it’s likely way past the time he can try to have the judgment satisfied. I practiced in NY for a while & for decades in DC courts, although I wasn’t involved in collecting debts in NY.
Why can't you go confiscate the property at his mechanic shop?
You have to convince a sheriff to escort you and you need someone who can determine the value of any property seized.
depending on the state you can, but it usually requires multiple attempts to collect through all the other various methods like garnishment, tax returns yaddy yadda. drunk dude folded my truck like a taco and ran. He did it in a company truck he claimed didnt belong to him but was his friends company. But the idiot kept posting on his facebook page the company was his, he plead he was poor and had no assets and belongings [claimed it was his friends stuff] but would constantly post pictures of his new tools and other nonsense. Had to collect nearly a year of evidence of him flexing on FB and after alot of back and forth and judge sent people out there to start seizing stuff until at auction till the settlement was paid. His friend would be like "you cant take that its mine. They would ask if he had a title or receipt with his his name or company name on it to prove it was his, if he said no, it went in the truck to be auctioned.
@@spaceracer23 i believe in some places you can't take the tools a person needs for their job/income so may not be able to do that.
I'm glad that the laws in non-USA countries allow collection through a far simpler procedure. Once you get a judgement, if it's not paid or appealed within the required time, you just apply to transfer to the High Court and get the sheriff's department to go collect on your behalf. They also collect not only your debt, but your court and application fees, and their own collection fees, so a small debt can cost a lot more in the end. So as long as the person who owes money has the assets, you wind up reimbursed for everything you spent.
A Smart technician would have opened up the engine, found the sludge from customer neglect, documented it, and contacted the customer. If customer refuses to acknowledge the condition, put it back together. Give it back to the customer no charge. Have a nice day. Like Steve’s T-shirt says you can’t fix stupid.
Found sludge *on* the engine. Now, this sounds to me, something like a bad valve cover gadget leaking or someone being sloppy when filling the oil. I mean, with dust and build-up that can cause sludge on the exterior of the heads and/or block.
@@mikekerr9125 I believe the mechanic found sludge in the engine, not on it. Sludge occurs from not changing the oil.
Pretty sure that’s some kind of Contempt of Court.
Ben being shouldered onto the sinking Titanic by two mugs, Steve's LHS
Long line at Ben’s door today.
G’nite Bob.
@@user-no1cares No one else watching???😁
Yep, collecting is a thing! My late husband wrote a CLE book[let?] called ‘The Collection and Enforcement of Judgments,’ sometime back in the ‘70’s and taught a few CLE classes in NY. He would have so enjoyed you! Sadly, there are times when one ends up with wall paper. lol
I would not be surprised if many start to ignore judges orders. The president does so why should we listen?
Not just the president(s), politicians on both sides.
Those low-flying woodchucks are really hazardous.
I'm filing a small claims complaint against my former landlord who threw out $9000 of my property. He thinks I'll just drop it. He doesn't know me very well....😡
Where do you live that you can file a $9000 claim in small claims court? Where I live the limit is $3000.
Your channel rocks. I sincerely appreciate your vids. Thanks for your generous sharing of your knowledge.
Thank you for at least acknowledging that the collections process exists! People always seem to throw up their hands and act like it's an impossible task to collect on a judgement. As someone who works with garnishments, that's just false. Credit card companies and car companies are excellent at collecting their money.
It's very hard for the layman though
I wonder how difficult it would be for the plaintiff to file a lien against the mechanic/his business.
The defendant is going to pay more than the judgment just for the attorney's retainer fee.
8:39 "Monday morning is fine with me."
Sometimes justice can be satisfying.
Mr Court Clerk, I am buried with cases and I cant possibly interview him until next Thursday. Ill bet he would have called his bride and said, “ Lamb Chop, please hand deliver the check to the lady so I can get out of jail”. Bride responds, “ Sweetie, Im a little busy and cant do it until Friday of next week. Ill bring you some magazines”.
In FL you must have an attorney for small claims court…or you have to-be able to cite case law