I called D and D looking for a Audi 2.0 engine, Dave said he didn't have one but would locate me one and would call me back once he found one. He called me back about 10 min later and told me he found one and told me a price of $3000.00 plus tax. I told him I wanted it and asked him how I could pay for it. He said I could pay for it when I picked it up but he could save me some money if I paid him and he paid for it because his tax rate was smaller than the county I would be picking it up in, so that's what I did. He give me a bill pay account # and I went to walmart money center and send cash to him using bill pay. Once he got his money ($3165.00) he text me a picture of the receipt and told me where I needed to go to pick it up. Two days later I left work 5 hrs early and drove 2 hrs to Sports and Imports in Fyffe Al to pick up my engine, when I got there and saw the engine I saw the oil pan was crushed and a few other minor things broke. I then called Dave at D and D and told him I didn't want it, he called sports and imports and they said they removed the oil pan and inspected it and found nothing wrong, so he called me back and said it was fine if I didn't want it but the engine was good that I should go ahead and get it because I wouldn't find another one that cheap, so took it home. When I took the lower oil pan off to put mine on I found the plastic baffle crushed so I took a closer look and found the upper oil pan ( that is made of aluminum not steel) cracked in two places and the front edge slightly bent upwards, and the upper oil pan is part of the structure of the engine because it is also part of the bellhousing. I took pictures and sent them to Dave and he told me he would meet me halfway (which is an hour drive) and get the engine and have the cracks welded. I told him I just wanted a refund because I was afraid there would be hidden damage that would show up after the 30 day warranty was up and he told me that was fine but I had to take it back to sports and imports because it was their warranty not his and once he got his money back he would mail me a check. So I left work 5 hrs early and drove another 2 hrs up there to return it. After I dropped it off and left I called Dave and asked him about my full refund and he told me that sports and imports would charge a restocking fee and he didn't know how much my refund would be until he got his money back from them, so I called sports and imports and asked how much he was going to charge and he said he didn't charge me a restocking fee. A couple of days later Dave from D and D text me a picture of my refund check and it was $475.00 short so I called him very angry about it and wanted to know where the rest of my money was and he said they charged him a restocking fee, I told him he was a liar because I had already talked to the guy about it, then he changed his story and said he was charging me a restocking fee and a credit card fee for paying for the engine with a credit card. To start with I paid him with cash not a credit card and for second he never saw the engine much less restock it, and third he never disclosed any restocking fee and it says nothing on my sales receipt about a restocking fee so he is a LIAR AND A THIEF.
In short I bought an engine at a premium price that was not a special order that was supposed to be good and all I had to do was swap the lower oil pan but ended up with one that needed more work than what I was told in the beginning, and you should never weld on an engine and since I didn't do what Dave wanted he kept $475 of my money.
This is fair warning DO NOT do business with D and D Motors read more
