grimaldi engineering
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Guys, has anyone heard of or used the this company for any work, Ferrari or Lambo, or anything come to that, need to know quick as mine might be going their this week.
http://www.grimaldiengineering.co.uk/profile.asp
http://www.grimaldiengineering.co.uk/profile.asp
Annabelle and Roberto have a growing reputation for doing good work for their customers - a number of PistonHead folk use their services.
Although still a young geezer, Roberto cut his teeth with some of the best names in the business in terms of his years spent working with cars from Supercar Valley...
I'm sure you wont be disappointed ...
Although still a young geezer, Roberto cut his teeth with some of the best names in the business in terms of his years spent working with cars from Supercar Valley...
I'm sure you wont be disappointed ...
Hi Jack,
Rob service and does all the maintance on my urraco and he is the best in fact my urraco will be going to grimaldi's middle of next month for some work all surpenion change, timing belt and lot of other bits as well. Rob and annabel are very helpful to he will talk to you phone you back and talk about what can be done to the car to make it 100%. He is very good on price my urraco went in for service in may and had window felt's changed, new exhaust fitted carb tune and some small bit's and come to 400 pound.
Top people would always recommend rob and annabel service to anyone
Any other question just drop us an e-mail.
Thanks
Leslie
Rob service and does all the maintance on my urraco and he is the best in fact my urraco will be going to grimaldi's middle of next month for some work all surpenion change, timing belt and lot of other bits as well. Rob and annabel are very helpful to he will talk to you phone you back and talk about what can be done to the car to make it 100%. He is very good on price my urraco went in for service in may and had window felt's changed, new exhaust fitted carb tune and some small bit's and come to 400 pound.
Top people would always recommend rob and annabel service to anyone
Any other question just drop us an e-mail.
Thanks
Leslie
Edited by urraco 250 s on Sunday 25th November 16:19
Just a quick note to say I've just got my car back and am very pleased with the treatment I got from Roberto and Annabel.
I notice he had a Countach in there and about 4 Ferraris of different types.
Some people might think I'm mad to drive the 210 miles to Halstead and back but the savings against the main dealer's quote was well worth it.
As mentioned previously, I had the 30K service with cam belt, a new clutch and cam timing check.
If you're fairly local or don't mind driving your car then I'd highly recommend Grimaldi Engineering.
I notice he had a Countach in there and about 4 Ferraris of different types.
Some people might think I'm mad to drive the 210 miles to Halstead and back but the savings against the main dealer's quote was well worth it.
As mentioned previously, I had the 30K service with cam belt, a new clutch and cam timing check.
If you're fairly local or don't mind driving your car then I'd highly recommend Grimaldi Engineering.
I know a couple of people who used him last year for Ferrari work and were very disapointed with them and their work, one guy was charged for work carried out and checked the so called replaced parts to find out they were still the parts that had been marked before the car went in for the work.
The guy is still thinking about the best way to deal with them as it was a rip off to the tune of £3k.
Not the best way to run your own company when relying on word of mouth.
The guy is still thinking about the best way to deal with them as it was a rip off to the tune of £3k.
Not the best way to run your own company when relying on word of mouth.
Edited by caddyman on Saturday 22 December 13:07
caddyman said:
I know a couple of people who used him last year and were very disapointed with them and their work, one guy was charged for work carried out and checked the so called replaced parts to find out they were still the parts that had been marked before the car went in for the work.
The guy is still thinking about the best way to deal with them as it was a rip off to the tune of £3k.
Not the best way to run your own company when relying on word of mouth.
WOW!! Just imagine the damage YOUR wallet will suffer should any of your unsubstantiated comments and innuendo prove to be inapplicable! The guy is still thinking about the best way to deal with them as it was a rip off to the tune of £3k.
Not the best way to run your own company when relying on word of mouth.
Second-hand threats of action regarding some percieved overbilling and 'opinions' of how to run a company are also something best reserved for a place where you have definite evidence of the same.
Who are you trying to kid? 'Marking' parts to catch someone out implies intent to find fault where none may actually exist and as for the 'guy' who is 'still thinking' about some action re. the not-at-all likely and clearly just imagined rip off... please...
AMAZING!! I see that you've placed just 6 or 7 thread contributions so far in your not overly extensive PH 'career' and they have all been either quite inflammatory or just irrelevant and pointlessly niggling remarks...
Why do you have so little information about yourself on your PH profile - are you just here to cause trouble and distress?
Merry Christmas 'Mr.' Caddyman-Troll!
Not a troll at all and all what I say is fact and can be proven, I think the guy is just deciding the best action to take on them as it was a blatant attempt to con him of a large amount of money for work not carried out.
Is there a law on what has to go on a profile then "Mr God" as I thought it was optional if you wanted to put info in.
Did not think there was a time limit on how many posts you have to make either oh great one.
As for the other crap you have spouted I think you'll find that is how the fraud squad and trading standards catch these rip off merchants out by marking parts to see if they get replaced or not.
All I have done is replied with knowledge I have of the company and you seem to think you have the right to have a pop at me, no wonder I haven't posted that many replies with responses like that, very friendly you are for a so called "petrol head"
Is there a law on what has to go on a profile then "Mr God" as I thought it was optional if you wanted to put info in.
Did not think there was a time limit on how many posts you have to make either oh great one.
As for the other crap you have spouted I think you'll find that is how the fraud squad and trading standards catch these rip off merchants out by marking parts to see if they get replaced or not.
All I have done is replied with knowledge I have of the company and you seem to think you have the right to have a pop at me, no wonder I haven't posted that many replies with responses like that, very friendly you are for a so called "petrol head"
XXVIII said:
Who are you trying to kid? 'Marking' parts to catch someone out implies intent to find fault where none may actually exist
In fairness I don't see anything wrong with this. It merely implies a level of skepticism which in this day and age in the motor trade seems reasonably justifiable. If no fault exists the marked parts will be in the bin and no-one will have come to any harm. The only people who need to worry about it are fraudulent dealers and IMHO anyone charging for work not done deserves everything they get.Don't suppose you'd had a couple of sherbets when you typed that, XVIII? It was late on a Friday night
My point would have been that marking parts (which may well be how the TSO operate in certain circumstances - they ARE the relevant authority and nobody else) would seem to indicate that someone has been trying to have work done for nothing or that another 'project' is being pursued
Were these marked parts actually elements of the work requested? Was there a reason to do that based on any issues with any work that had been done by GE beforehand?
Or just a heap of trollish nonsense based on a number of possible irrelevant issues... or (more seriously and most probably) an attempt to ruin a good reputation before somebody starts losing business because of that growing reputation...
Not a genecoding piece of deduction - especially not in the throat-slicing world referred to.
and no, not a drop/grain of sherbet was consumed
Were these marked parts actually elements of the work requested? Was there a reason to do that based on any issues with any work that had been done by GE beforehand?
Or just a heap of trollish nonsense based on a number of possible irrelevant issues... or (more seriously and most probably) an attempt to ruin a good reputation before somebody starts losing business because of that growing reputation...
Not a genecoding piece of deduction - especially not in the throat-slicing world referred to.
and no, not a drop/grain of sherbet was consumed
I really can't see what your problem is here, the guy took his car there knowing nothing of the garage and needed to know 100% that his car would be in trusted hands so marked parts relavent to the work.
The guy can more than afford any bills but he isn't in that position by paying £3k bills for work that has not been done that he was told was done and charged for.
The bottom line is the GE tried to pull the guys pants down and got snagged, simple, so why the big fuss??
The guy can more than afford any bills but he isn't in that position by paying £3k bills for work that has not been done that he was told was done and charged for.
The bottom line is the GE tried to pull the guys pants down and got snagged, simple, so why the big fuss??
XXVIII said:
My point would have been that marking parts (which may well be how the TSO operate in certain circumstances - they ARE the relevant authority and nobody else) would seem to indicate that someone has been trying to have work done for nothing or that another 'project' is being pursued
What the hell is all this crap your talking about, how does it indicate he is trying to get work done for nothing, all he's doing is making sure he's getting what he is paying for, and just as well by the looks of things.To me it indicates that GE are trying to get paid for doing nothing!!
caddyman said:
XXVIII said:
My point would have been that marking parts (which may well be how the TSO operate in certain circumstances - they ARE the relevant authority and nobody else) would seem to indicate that someone has been trying to have work done for nothing or that another 'project' is being pursued
What the hell is all this crap your talking about, how does it indicate he is trying to get work done for nothing, all he's doing is making sure he's getting what he is paying for, and just as well by the looks of things.To me it indicates that GE are trying to get paid for doing nothing!!
Hi Everyone,
I know rob and annabel for a year now and he does my lambo repairs and 20 other people i know and he is the best i have tried other lambo repairs but they can't touch rob grimaldi. In fact my urraco is in rob's at the moment having about £3.500 pounds spent and i know rob's service will be his usual very high standard always will be very impressed with his work top team
always recommend them.
Thanks
Leslie
I know rob and annabel for a year now and he does my lambo repairs and 20 other people i know and he is the best i have tried other lambo repairs but they can't touch rob grimaldi. In fact my urraco is in rob's at the moment having about £3.500 pounds spent and i know rob's service will be his usual very high standard always will be very impressed with his work top team
always recommend them.Thanks
Leslie
Jules360 said:
caddyman said:
XXVIII said:
My point would have been that marking parts (which may well be how the TSO operate in certain circumstances - they ARE the relevant authority and nobody else) would seem to indicate that someone has been trying to have work done for nothing or that another 'project' is being pursued
What the hell is all this crap your talking about, how does it indicate he is trying to get work done for nothing, all he's doing is making sure he's getting what he is paying for, and just as well by the looks of things.To me it indicates that GE are trying to get paid for doing nothing!!
As people have had work done by them and it's been ok then the guy must be lying then as it couldn't possibly have happend could it.
XXVIII said:
My point would have been that marking parts (which may well be how the TSO operate in certain circumstances - they ARE the relevant authority and nobody else) would seem to indicate that someone has been trying to have work done for nothing or that another 'project' is being pursued
You're surprising me here XVIII, I usually enjoy reading your posts 
No-one's trying to get anything done for nothing, just making sure that when a garage says it's replaced x, y and z then x, y and z have indeed been replaced.
Donkeys years ago when I was a lad my Dad took his Austin Maxi to the main dealer to have the tailgate gas struts replaced under warranty. The job sheet showed new struts plus labour being billed back to the manufacturer. The tailgate was as droopy as a tart's knickers again within a couple of weeks. He took it back again and they fixed it again. They assured him they'd replaced the faulty (allegedly new) units. He took the service manager to the car and described the marks he'd made on the struts prior to bringing it back and invited him to explain how these marks were still there
You're suggesting he was wrong to do that?
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