I went in there looking for advice and/or solution to the wiring in my wagon resto. Heard he did good work and of the 6 places in Adelaide I emailed asking about full car re-wires he was 1 of 2 that said they could even do it. I took my 2 factory service manuals to point at and give him a rough idea of what I wanted, basically at least the front end re-wired with the new dash, add a few extra bits in like power feed for an amp, UHF, wiring for a bigger alternator, modernize the whole system a bit.
First of all, after I described what I wanted he basically asked me why was I bothering (not in so many words but) and why didn't I just use the original wiring (the 35 year old failing fusible link wiring) Further conversation gave me the impression he didn't want to do the job (didn't tell me this though) was reluctant to listen to me, didn't take much of what I had to say on board and was pretty arrogant the whole time. He insinuated it was going to cost more than I could afford, before I even told him my budget (a few thousand)
Eventually I asked him what was the best thing to do to get what I wanted. He said bring in all the wiring and electrical parts I can so we could lay it out and have a look at it, write down everything I want and see if it's possible. I asked if this time of day was okay because that's when I was driving past (sorta) on my way home, he said yes. Great I thought, finally getting somewhere. So that weekend I sorted out all the wiring I could (including the new dash and NZ wiring for that) boxed it up and went back the next week. I'll say here I was a bit hesitant to go back even at this point, based on his attitude the first time.
When I walked in at the same time as last time I told him I had everything in the car and could he come and go through it. This is the answer I got:
"No not really, this is a really busy time of day for me so why don't you take a seat over there and I'll be with you in about an hour"
That's right, he was seriously asking me to sit over there and wait for an hour while he did his "mountain of paper work"
Instead of dealing with the customer who was right in front of him then and there, willing to throw a few K of work his way, he would rather catch up with other stuff and make me wait an hour and waste my time. When I told him I couldn't wait that long I had stuff to do he gave me more attitude and basically I just turned my back and walked out. Couldn't be bothered trying to talk to him any more.
So that's my story for the week. A very bad experience with what should be a professional tradesman that put me in a foul mood for the rest of the day. What really pissed me off was I went a fair way out of my way to get there, I am only available to do these things at that time of day and he seriously was telling me to just sit over there for an hour. Plus his insinuations that I wasn't going to be able to afford it anyway (because I'm not some rich looking old fart probably) his arrogance and whole attitude like he thought I was an idiot.
Blergh, I could rant and rave all day about it I'm so mad but that's enough. I've learnt my lesson to stay away from businesses on the posh side of town. I've had pretty good experiences with places during my resto up till now, I guess it was only a matter of time before I ran into an A-hole such as this.
Yep, looks like I'm cracking into it myself to either scare myself silly or come out on top. Worst case scenario is I screw it up completely and just end up making a new loom from scratch copying the 4 feet long page wiring diagram in one of my FSM's. 
), might be worth a shot. 
