SUPRA 2020
Regarding: 2020 Toyota Supra modifications performed by Trending Motorsports Techniques
900 East Patrick Street
Frederick, MD 21701
240-651-3251
The 2020 Toyota Supra was purchased February 21st 2020 for $60,665.
In the spring of 2021, the owner and his caretaker were having lunch at the Beef N Buns N Paradise restaurant in Frederick, MD. The owner was driving his 2020 Toyota Supra. The owner was approached by Manuel Quintamilla and Junior Salgado. They told the owner they could make high performance modifications to his Supra.
In June 2021 the owner dropped his Supra at Trending Mororsports Techniques (TMT) for modifications. The car owner made it clear that he did not want any modifications made to his car that would make it illegal to drive on the street. Manuel advised the owner that any modifications made would be street legal. Each modification took months to complete. Every time the owner would ask about the status of his car Manuel would tell him that the car would be ready on a particular date. On the date specified by Manuel, the owner and his caretaker would stop at the TMT shop, but the car was never ready, and most of the time not at the shop. Manuel would always have an excuse such as, they did not receive the parts, or the tuner was running behind, etc. During this time frame, the 2nd Supra key FOB was given to TMT for their convenience.
In July 2022, TMT would not return the vehicle, or tell the owner specifically where the vehicle was located. The Frederick City Police Department (301-600-2021) was notified of issue. Responding officer: Officer Stanley. Case number 484.
Officer Stanley interviewed Junior Salgado and Manuel Quintamilla. TMT advised the car is at the tuner. Junior advise not to contact tuner or he will put your car at the end of the list. Junior wrote down a few letters on a piece of paper and gave it to the owner and said that is the web address where the car is. The address proved to be a non-existent webpage.
The owner has been battling Mutiple Myloma Blood Cancer since 2019 and has been in and out of the hospital multiple times while dealing with TMT.
2nd police notification.
July 19th, 2023 Responding officer: Officer Constantine. Case number 23-059177
Phone number 240-549-4467
The owner had paid a total of $22,360.53 to TMT for modifications.
Junior told Officer Constantine that the owner needed to pay an additional $1,200.00 tuning fee. Junior would not tell the owner where the car was. Junior also advised, in the presence of the police officer, that illegal modifications were made to the car.
After pressing TMT on the location of the car, Junior got 1-To-1 Turning on the phone. 1-to-1 advised that TMT dropped the car at his shop for tuning but the car will not start. 1-to-1 advised they have been asking TMT for months to come and get the car.
After being confronted about the state of the car, and no tuning being done, in the presence of Officer Constantine, Junior agreed to drop the tuning charge and turn possession of the car over to the owner.
The owner had the car towed from 1-to-1 Tuning in Marriottsville, MD to the DARCARS Toyota dealership at 5293 Buckeystown Pike in Frederick MD. Due to the non-running condition of the car, Mark's Towing of Frederick, MD had to send a special tow vehicle with dolley wheels to Marriottsville, MD to retrieve car. The owner had to pay the towing cost to have the car towed.
There was only one key FOB with the car. TMT advised they cannot find the 2nd key FOB. DARCARS Toyota advised the cost of another FOB is $1199.96.
However, due to the unknown whereabouts of the 2nd key FOB, the car needs to be rekeyed with 2 new key FOBs, and one physical key lock. Re-keying will cost approximately $2,500.
Darcars Toyota found vehicle will not start.
Darcars replaced a dead battery, and damaged power distribution box.
They found the vehicle has 44 codes in the system and the internal control units are not communicating. They replaced the engine control module, body control module, and spark plugs.
DARCARS advised the internal control units are now communicating, but the vehicle will not start.
The total cost of Toyota services performed to get the control units to communicate was $6245.27.
DARCARS service advisor advised the additional repairs needed to fix the vehicle are more than the vehicle is worth and it must be towed from their facility.
The car was taken to a second turner and the second turner also advised the car is not worth fixing.
TMT had the car in their possession for more than 2 years and the car was not operational once it was back in the possession of the owner. The second tuner advised the cost to bring the car into a safe operating condition may cost $30,000.
Retribution attempts have been made directly with TMT, and they have ignored all requests. Legal action is being taken against TMT. read more