waynejdmep3
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This is a small note of my experience with the company 200bhp cars.
I contacted these guys way back in march of 2010, leaving them with a message of that i was in the market for either an r34 gtt, or an s15 spec r.
Andy contacted me a week later and started the ball rolling with importing me one.
My requirements were quite simple, i wanted one that had a good well looked after engine with no issues, a car with a decent interior, and straight panels on the car, i also added that i 'didnt mind having to paint a bumper and skirt if the price was right as that is my trade.
So andys reply was simple, he could source me a car in that area, that fitted what i wanted, just a £500 deposit was needed to start the searching.
After a few days of payment there was no real contact as there was a japanese crazy holiday, so i stayed patient and waited. In the mean time i had access to the japanese auctions so i could search for one too.
I came across around 5-6 that looked like they suited my budget and my needs, so emailed these over to andy and asked what my chances were.
Andy's reply was very much i think they are slightly out of budget but 'he'll try to find out more'.
That never materialised, so i found a few more and repeated the procedure, again, no luck.
This carried on for around 1 month to 6 weeks, in that time andy had only found 1-2 cars (that we didnt win).
So after me getting second thoughts, i contacted andy to ask if my budget is to low or am i being too optimistic? Andy reasured me the right car will come along and to bear with him.So i did.
But again, after nearly a 6 week wait and barely no contact with 200bhp cars and after me emailing over 30 cars going through japanese auctions, only 2 were looked at by andys agent.
So, i set a deadline, if the right car hadnt been sourced by mid june, then il be pulling the plug as i had lost all faith and wanted the car for the final weeks of what summer we had left, i wanted the car for mid august. Andy said this was a good deadline to aim for and that he would be able to deliver that.
Cars come and gone with no winning bids or out of budget, again i sent over at least 50 cars that i had found MYSELF.
With 2 days left of the deadline i sent andy a list of 6 cars, andy found a silver s15 in need of a bumper painting and rear bumper smart repairing, so i gave the thumbs up to bid for it.
We finally won that car, so full payment needed to be made. So i payed it within 3 days in cash, directly into his bank.
Andy also noted to me that he could source second hand rims at a good price and get them in the car so they arrive when the car does.
Again i searched jap auctions for the rims and new seats so i could really get it looking special.
Once again without fail, it was near impossible to get any reply from 200bhp cars through email, phone or text.
6 weeks went by with barely no reply form 200bhp, so it got me worried, had this guy ran off with my money and sent me pictures of a phantom car?
August came and i had no arrival date or any form of reply. Then i got a text saying it was due around the 19th of august.
That day came and apparentely it hadnt docked, so could be a few more days.
After 2 weeks of the same excuse, andy finally said my car had arrived, but customs would not release it for some unknown reason, this went on for another week.
Then finally my car was released, but andy couldnt work on it until he had sorted a small fire that had broke out in one of the mazda bongos he had converted with a full kitchen, and was devoting all his time and effort into that as it was due out 2 days previously, but did say he would have mine started within the next few days.
10 days passed with still no car, so i had to ask what was going on, he said he had sorted the bongo and was getting ready to start my car for collection by the weekend. Again without fail i was let down.
So i said enough was enough and im coming to collect the car.
So mid september on a friday it was arranged that the car will be ready for collection. So i made a move at 5 in the morning with my mate to make the 5 hour journey from reading to newcastle.
Being one hour from his address i received a text to say i would need to meet him at jm-imports as thats where the car will be. so we carried on our journey to the alternate address.
Being we had no idea of the area we took a wrong turn and in the distance see what seemed to be my car on the side of the road with the bonnet up and the hazards flashing, so we drove towards it, it was my car and it was andy explaining that he had pulled over to make sure the air con condensor was functioning properly, but we had to follow him up to the workshop.
The minute we pulled up beside the car i could see that something was seriously wrong,
~The bonnet was warped, flat, dented
~the wings were rippled, cracked, scraped
~The bumper was barely together, and only bolted on one side
~The sideskirts were cracked all through, scraped, missing bits!
~The rear bumper was stress cracked all over
~The passenger door had lacquer runs from top to bottom
So my dissapointment must have shown as andy just walked off, knowing in my mind these were just cosmetic i knew i could make the acr a whole lot better but with A BIG amount of money needed.
I could have walked away but i wanted that car, and was just happy to know that i had actually bought a car and not funded a scammer.
We walked in to jm-imports where jurgen introduced himself and said feel free to use the ramps to get the new rims and tyres fitted as the originals were well worn. So andy and me set about doing it.
Thats when andy then explained there was no locking wheel nut key and no spanners for the coilovers, and also that one of the studs on the back was rounded off meaning no wheel nut could be fittted.
Anyway the car was on new rims and looked 100x better instantly, so i began the paper work with andy and payed the existing £400 left owing for longer tax (which andy done an extra 6 months for just £50 for the long wait and hassle)
Andy left with his wife/girlfriend and iwas left with a car i hadnt even test drove or even looked under the bonnet, so i started it up and drove off.
Something was seriously wrong right from the off, the car wouldnt boost, was laggy to hell, a bit of steam rose from the bonnet and it was cutting out constantly, so i drove back to jm-imports.
These guys were fantastic and helped me in every way possible trying to make the car good enough for it to get home, in the mean time i made a call to 200bhp cars, explaining all the faults and im considering asking for my full money back as his site guarantees. Andy said for me to leave it there and he will get the problem sorted.
So i drove all the way back to reading and left the car with jm-imports.
4 weeks went passed and jurgen rang me to explain what they had tried and tested and what bits had been replaced, he also made me aware andy had that day collected the car as he thought he could repair it, so i made the call to andy asap and said thats it, im collecting the car from him within 2 days.
When i got back there to collect it, i had an agreement with andy that im willing to wave the cosmetic repairs but he will have to help out on the mechnical repairs of what was left as this was an area i had no idea. Andy agreed and i drove away with the car on a recovery truck.
Fast forward 3months and the whole car was cosmetically overhauled which included new front bumper, bonnet, wings etc.
So i contacted andy and said ive sorted the body and will be getting horsham developments to sort the running issue, they found the problem and spent hours mapping and setting the car to a safe condition, the bill was jsut over £800 including a service of all fluids.
Andy then agreed to pay around £200 for the mechanical repairs.
That was over 4 weeks ago and i havent seen a penny, dont get a reply and quite frankly expected this.
In the time that i collected the car i have found out many stories of my car.
Firstly.
~My car was in the country the first week of august & it was sat in the docks for over 6 weeks as payment had'nt been made to drive it away.
~ Andy never had a mazda bongo fire at his so called workshop as he didnt even have a workshop atthe time and worked from home, but still didnt have a bongo at the time.
~ 200bhpcars is folded every year as andy does this to make sure there is no tax paid and all profit goes direct to him and the tax man gets 0
This is only my experience, many others may have had a good one, maybe even a great one, but i, have definatley had a bad one.
The car now stands me in at just over £16k, with andy paying maybe £100 in total back to me, thats just to get it in a safe stable good driveable condition.
I kept my mouth shut for a long time about this as i held out hope of andy maybe redeeming himself slightly, but what i have found is that andy lives a playboy lifestyle, pretending to be your friend, making out he will bend over backwards for you, leading you into a false sense of security.
I have been well and truely shafted by 200bhp cars and to be honest feel stupid knowing that i should have listen'd to instinct telling me they are having me on.
What i have learnt is that to get a good car, from a good import company is difficult and you have to do research before, and if i ahd have done that, theres only a handful of people you can trust, and 200BHPCARS is not the one to trust.
Wayne
I contacted these guys way back in march of 2010, leaving them with a message of that i was in the market for either an r34 gtt, or an s15 spec r.
Andy contacted me a week later and started the ball rolling with importing me one.
My requirements were quite simple, i wanted one that had a good well looked after engine with no issues, a car with a decent interior, and straight panels on the car, i also added that i 'didnt mind having to paint a bumper and skirt if the price was right as that is my trade.
So andys reply was simple, he could source me a car in that area, that fitted what i wanted, just a £500 deposit was needed to start the searching.
After a few days of payment there was no real contact as there was a japanese crazy holiday, so i stayed patient and waited. In the mean time i had access to the japanese auctions so i could search for one too.
I came across around 5-6 that looked like they suited my budget and my needs, so emailed these over to andy and asked what my chances were.
Andy's reply was very much i think they are slightly out of budget but 'he'll try to find out more'.
That never materialised, so i found a few more and repeated the procedure, again, no luck.
This carried on for around 1 month to 6 weeks, in that time andy had only found 1-2 cars (that we didnt win).
So after me getting second thoughts, i contacted andy to ask if my budget is to low or am i being too optimistic? Andy reasured me the right car will come along and to bear with him.So i did.
But again, after nearly a 6 week wait and barely no contact with 200bhp cars and after me emailing over 30 cars going through japanese auctions, only 2 were looked at by andys agent.
So, i set a deadline, if the right car hadnt been sourced by mid june, then il be pulling the plug as i had lost all faith and wanted the car for the final weeks of what summer we had left, i wanted the car for mid august. Andy said this was a good deadline to aim for and that he would be able to deliver that.
Cars come and gone with no winning bids or out of budget, again i sent over at least 50 cars that i had found MYSELF.
With 2 days left of the deadline i sent andy a list of 6 cars, andy found a silver s15 in need of a bumper painting and rear bumper smart repairing, so i gave the thumbs up to bid for it.
We finally won that car, so full payment needed to be made. So i payed it within 3 days in cash, directly into his bank.
Andy also noted to me that he could source second hand rims at a good price and get them in the car so they arrive when the car does.
Again i searched jap auctions for the rims and new seats so i could really get it looking special.
Once again without fail, it was near impossible to get any reply from 200bhp cars through email, phone or text.
6 weeks went by with barely no reply form 200bhp, so it got me worried, had this guy ran off with my money and sent me pictures of a phantom car?
August came and i had no arrival date or any form of reply. Then i got a text saying it was due around the 19th of august.
That day came and apparentely it hadnt docked, so could be a few more days.
After 2 weeks of the same excuse, andy finally said my car had arrived, but customs would not release it for some unknown reason, this went on for another week.
Then finally my car was released, but andy couldnt work on it until he had sorted a small fire that had broke out in one of the mazda bongos he had converted with a full kitchen, and was devoting all his time and effort into that as it was due out 2 days previously, but did say he would have mine started within the next few days.
10 days passed with still no car, so i had to ask what was going on, he said he had sorted the bongo and was getting ready to start my car for collection by the weekend. Again without fail i was let down.
So i said enough was enough and im coming to collect the car.
So mid september on a friday it was arranged that the car will be ready for collection. So i made a move at 5 in the morning with my mate to make the 5 hour journey from reading to newcastle.
Being one hour from his address i received a text to say i would need to meet him at jm-imports as thats where the car will be. so we carried on our journey to the alternate address.
Being we had no idea of the area we took a wrong turn and in the distance see what seemed to be my car on the side of the road with the bonnet up and the hazards flashing, so we drove towards it, it was my car and it was andy explaining that he had pulled over to make sure the air con condensor was functioning properly, but we had to follow him up to the workshop.
The minute we pulled up beside the car i could see that something was seriously wrong,
~The bonnet was warped, flat, dented
~the wings were rippled, cracked, scraped
~The bumper was barely together, and only bolted on one side
~The sideskirts were cracked all through, scraped, missing bits!
~The rear bumper was stress cracked all over
~The passenger door had lacquer runs from top to bottom
So my dissapointment must have shown as andy just walked off, knowing in my mind these were just cosmetic i knew i could make the acr a whole lot better but with A BIG amount of money needed.
I could have walked away but i wanted that car, and was just happy to know that i had actually bought a car and not funded a scammer.
We walked in to jm-imports where jurgen introduced himself and said feel free to use the ramps to get the new rims and tyres fitted as the originals were well worn. So andy and me set about doing it.
Thats when andy then explained there was no locking wheel nut key and no spanners for the coilovers, and also that one of the studs on the back was rounded off meaning no wheel nut could be fittted.
Anyway the car was on new rims and looked 100x better instantly, so i began the paper work with andy and payed the existing £400 left owing for longer tax (which andy done an extra 6 months for just £50 for the long wait and hassle)
Andy left with his wife/girlfriend and iwas left with a car i hadnt even test drove or even looked under the bonnet, so i started it up and drove off.
Something was seriously wrong right from the off, the car wouldnt boost, was laggy to hell, a bit of steam rose from the bonnet and it was cutting out constantly, so i drove back to jm-imports.
These guys were fantastic and helped me in every way possible trying to make the car good enough for it to get home, in the mean time i made a call to 200bhp cars, explaining all the faults and im considering asking for my full money back as his site guarantees. Andy said for me to leave it there and he will get the problem sorted.
So i drove all the way back to reading and left the car with jm-imports.
4 weeks went passed and jurgen rang me to explain what they had tried and tested and what bits had been replaced, he also made me aware andy had that day collected the car as he thought he could repair it, so i made the call to andy asap and said thats it, im collecting the car from him within 2 days.
When i got back there to collect it, i had an agreement with andy that im willing to wave the cosmetic repairs but he will have to help out on the mechnical repairs of what was left as this was an area i had no idea. Andy agreed and i drove away with the car on a recovery truck.
Fast forward 3months and the whole car was cosmetically overhauled which included new front bumper, bonnet, wings etc.
So i contacted andy and said ive sorted the body and will be getting horsham developments to sort the running issue, they found the problem and spent hours mapping and setting the car to a safe condition, the bill was jsut over £800 including a service of all fluids.
Andy then agreed to pay around £200 for the mechanical repairs.
That was over 4 weeks ago and i havent seen a penny, dont get a reply and quite frankly expected this.
In the time that i collected the car i have found out many stories of my car.
Firstly.
~My car was in the country the first week of august & it was sat in the docks for over 6 weeks as payment had'nt been made to drive it away.
~ Andy never had a mazda bongo fire at his so called workshop as he didnt even have a workshop atthe time and worked from home, but still didnt have a bongo at the time.
~ 200bhpcars is folded every year as andy does this to make sure there is no tax paid and all profit goes direct to him and the tax man gets 0
This is only my experience, many others may have had a good one, maybe even a great one, but i, have definatley had a bad one.
The car now stands me in at just over £16k, with andy paying maybe £100 in total back to me, thats just to get it in a safe stable good driveable condition.
I kept my mouth shut for a long time about this as i held out hope of andy maybe redeeming himself slightly, but what i have found is that andy lives a playboy lifestyle, pretending to be your friend, making out he will bend over backwards for you, leading you into a false sense of security.
I have been well and truely shafted by 200bhp cars and to be honest feel stupid knowing that i should have listen'd to instinct telling me they are having me on.
What i have learnt is that to get a good car, from a good import company is difficult and you have to do research before, and if i ahd have done that, theres only a handful of people you can trust, and 200BHPCARS is not the one to trust.
Wayne
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