hehe sorry Bill... I just thought I'd put some humour into it : I wasn't serious about the flame war thing

I asked Don for an explanation a few times for his shabby service and what he intended to do about it, but the posts were ignored (no surprise there), or deleted (no surprise there either - it was on his threads).

 

Heh, why am I not surprised.

What's sad is that this will probably just fade into oblivion without any true change in MobileTek's business habits/ethics.

 

Maybe Don's service might not change. But, I will certainly let individuals know of what I went through if they are considering Don's VB mod. If you ever talk on the phone with Maximum Tuning's tranny tech, you will be absolutely sure that they know what they are doing.

 

I know Don knows what he is doing also since he has been working on the Maxima longer than anyone here and has the fastest Maxima in the world currently.

 

No, Don does not know what he is doing. I send in my VB for repair just to freaking fix my slow 1-2 shift. He looks at it and doesn't have a clue what is wrong. He just blames it on my tranny. He changes the shims and removes a steel ball that had no business being removed in the RE4F04V Valve Body. He sends it back and says, "If you have an issue with this VB after its installed, let me know and if we decide there is an issue with theVB itself, I'll make arrangements to ship you a core. I'm confident we have solved the issue you were having."

Well, guess what happens. He send me the VB back and it still doesn't work. And ever since day one, it was plane as day that it was a problem with the valve body. And guess what... IT WAS!

The minute the Matt at Maximum Tuning opened up my VB, he knew exactly what wrong and easily fixed it. It was plain as day for someone who knows anything about how a valve body works. Don't tell me for one second that Don knows the inner workings of a valve body, cause he doesn't. He may know about the Maxima but he doesn't know jack about the VB. He only knows how to put shims in it to make it shift faster.

 

Such a cry baby...

 

 

You insult me b/c you know I'm right.

 

Hmmmm....complete sentences, punctuation, and clarity of opinion pretty much sums up Aaron's post(s).

I don't agree with Aaron's contention about Don not knowing a valvebody from a hole in the ground, as he clearly does and there are many satisfied customers with its performance. It does appear here that Don didn't get the issue corrected. I don't consider that a big deal, as stuff like that happens.








Meanwhile, your (not you're by the way) grand contribution is to call Aaron a name. That alone speaks volumes, but probably doesn't convey what you're (not your by the way) hoping to accomplish which is to impune his character.

 

Bill,

In all fairness to Aaron, I agree that Don didn't demonstrate a reasonable degree of expertise. It's one thing to do unorthodox modifications that work and ones that don't work. If you are to work on a complex device like a valve body, you really should have a sound idea of what's going on and what to modify accordingly.

Evidently, Don has been unable to demonstrate this. Maybe his expertise lies in other model slush-boxes? Maybe he should consider specialising in those that he knows work, from past experience?

Regardless, what has been experienced (and proven) by these disgruntled customers will definitely play a part in the decision making process of all prospective consumers reading this thread. You and I can understand why.

 

I understand what you're saying. I'm not flaming Aaron or anything. I've been here long enough to know that Don's VB products are reliable and work well for the most part; I've seen few if any complaints to the contrary (of course, the service side and this whole other fiasco(s) is a separate issue).

It's too bad this whole experience left a bad taste in Aaron's mouth regarding Don's VB, but it's certainly understandable. I'm glad he's up and going and pleased with his VB mod.

 

Ditto to that. Dude, bear in mind though I wasn't accusing you of any flaming either! Just putting things into perspective

 

Russ, this is neither staying out of it nor is it backing off. Try again, I know you can do it.

 

Who cares?

Noone should believe a word you speak/write, DON.

Even ripping off 1 person is unexcusable (and the number is much higher than 1).

Don you are a thief and a liar. A) You took peoples money and never sent a product-theif. B) you promised refunds, but never sent $ - liar. (I have proof of him doing both to me, in emails he sent; if anyone would like copies I can forward them, gladly.)

So, shut up, and either make good w/ the people you ripped off or admitt you are a piece of lying, stealing crap.

 

Any progress w/ the authorities etc???

 

Don is still at it - apparently he is doing a VB on a non-Maxima right now, and the owner of the vehicle has had to "push" him to get it done... after a few ignored emails/no responses, a harsh email got to him.

We'll know if he's up to his old stuff in the coming days I guess... in the meantime, I have no idea about the refunds - I'm curious if he will go through with them as it's quite obvious he's still trying to push his business.

 

Since I'm suddenly hearing stories about how Don Cooper is still trying to do Nissan valve body upgrades, I have to bump this thread. There are many more threads out there that show how much of a thief and lier Don is:

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=148728

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....ight=Mobiletek

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....&highlight=Don

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread....&highlight=Don

 

I'll second this. He ripped me off for $1000. No product ever sent and no refund- he is a f*king a55hole to take advantage of people who trusted him to be a responsible business owner.

If I ever go to Houston I'm going to look him up and thank him personally.

 

I'm not trying to start an arguement of course. But I just want as many people as possible to know that Don is a lying thief. I don't think it's considered an insult when it's the truth. Do NOT deal with MobileTek or with Don Cooper. It just seems that a lot of new dot org members don't know this.