VOLVO Rica Upgrade deals :)
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Hi all we at www.rtmechanics.co.uk have for a limited time a batch of the excellent Rica ppc unit which is a diy tune unit matched to your car which can be added by any person and taken off at any stage we can sell them for £450.00 plus vat but if you mention the PH website we can knock off another 10% discount 
The ppc unit is for year 2000 and onwards cars only.
For all the early 850/S/C70/V70 models we can also do you a deal on the upgrade price but we do need to see the car to set it up correctly please ask for prices
If any volvo lovers need any further info or help please ask or call me at work 01428 722144
Many thanks
Russell Thompson
www.rtmechanics.co.uk
The ppc unit is for year 2000 and onwards cars only.
For all the early 850/S/C70/V70 models we can also do you a deal on the upgrade price but we do need to see the car to set it up correctly please ask for prices
If any volvo lovers need any further info or help please ask or call me at work 01428 722144
Many thanks
Russell Thompson
www.rtmechanics.co.uk
Yeah but they don't work!!!
Rica software by Rica's own admission is not compatible with the BSR's PPC system.
This smacks of a company trying to off load a job lot of dodgy units. These are now almost half the price that Rica originally made us sell them at, strange how all of a sudden they are prepared to make a loss.
I had to stop selling them because of all the problems and Rica's complete inability to offer any customer service. Besides there is better for less.
Good luck to anyone who buys the Rica PPC, even I would have to concede that Dons MTE soft loader is almost certainly a better product.
Hamish
Rica software by Rica's own admission is not compatible with the BSR's PPC system.
This smacks of a company trying to off load a job lot of dodgy units. These are now almost half the price that Rica originally made us sell them at, strange how all of a sudden they are prepared to make a loss.
I had to stop selling them because of all the problems and Rica's complete inability to offer any customer service. Besides there is better for less.
Good luck to anyone who buys the Rica PPC, even I would have to concede that Dons MTE soft loader is almost certainly a better product.
Hamish
How predictable that Hamish should come on and attack another RICA dealer, no sour grapes whatsoever eh.....
It'll have nothing to do with HLM / HLM Chiptuning / Volvo Tuning / HLM Tuning being bitter about RICA having pulled their exclusive UK Distributorship due to incompetence, blown engines, bad attitude and shocking customer service - Even your other partner (Adam Weber) had some sense and did a runner due to your shocking attitude to him and your customers.
I find it quite amusing that you have seen fit to criticise RICA for Poor Customer Service when you yourself are to the level of being criminally negligent and you don't even have poor customer service but absolutely no customer service.
The only thing HLM and Hamish Lindsay have ever been interested in is robbing customers wallets for the maximum amount of money possible, your attitude in this post says much about you, your company and how you conduct yourself. The best thing that can happen to you is that you go bankrupt as always befits shysters.
Interestingly enough, RICA seemed to be the best thing since sliced bread when you were raking it in and you I note are still quite happily advertising the RICA PPC on your own website.
Jealousy and envy are a terrible thing.
Russell on the other hand has a stunning reputation and should be a shining example of just where you went wrong.
Now crawl back in your hole you crook.
It'll have nothing to do with HLM / HLM Chiptuning / Volvo Tuning / HLM Tuning being bitter about RICA having pulled their exclusive UK Distributorship due to incompetence, blown engines, bad attitude and shocking customer service - Even your other partner (Adam Weber) had some sense and did a runner due to your shocking attitude to him and your customers.
I find it quite amusing that you have seen fit to criticise RICA for Poor Customer Service when you yourself are to the level of being criminally negligent and you don't even have poor customer service but absolutely no customer service.
The only thing HLM and Hamish Lindsay have ever been interested in is robbing customers wallets for the maximum amount of money possible, your attitude in this post says much about you, your company and how you conduct yourself. The best thing that can happen to you is that you go bankrupt as always befits shysters.
Interestingly enough, RICA seemed to be the best thing since sliced bread when you were raking it in and you I note are still quite happily advertising the RICA PPC on your own website.
Jealousy and envy are a terrible thing.
Russell on the other hand has a stunning reputation and should be a shining example of just where you went wrong.
Now crawl back in your hole you crook.
Edited by Simmo_J on Monday 25th February 23:40
Edited by Simmo_J on Monday 25th February 23:53
We have a new website which is live and running! Unfortunately we are still waiting for the old domain names to be re-directed.
We are not bitter at all as PPCs did not work by Rica's own admission! We have had to re brand ourselves to get away from the Rica name as we no longer want any part of it.
Rica is a guy who leaves customers waiting for 7 hours in our workshop to have their cars tuned, proceed to 'kill' the car and then B**ger of home leaving the customer stranded, I can assure you there are no 'sour grapes' just relief.
FYI they didn't pull the distributorship we did, and 90% of OUR dealers want their Rica CMD slaves reverted as they are not happy with the service or price, but surprise surprise Rica have ignored their requests to do so.
With regard to Adam, you don't know the half of it! But you are a long way off the truth but to give you an idea of Adam's ability we asked him to remove all reference to Rica's PPC from the websites approx 4 months ago and he was incapable of doing that correctly. Also FYI 'The Ponce' a former poster on this and many other websites is/was Adam Weber, so go back and read some of your old post with that in mind.
We are not bitter at all as PPCs did not work by Rica's own admission! We have had to re brand ourselves to get away from the Rica name as we no longer want any part of it.
Rica is a guy who leaves customers waiting for 7 hours in our workshop to have their cars tuned, proceed to 'kill' the car and then B**ger of home leaving the customer stranded, I can assure you there are no 'sour grapes' just relief.
FYI they didn't pull the distributorship we did, and 90% of OUR dealers want their Rica CMD slaves reverted as they are not happy with the service or price, but surprise surprise Rica have ignored their requests to do so.
With regard to Adam, you don't know the half of it! But you are a long way off the truth but to give you an idea of Adam's ability we asked him to remove all reference to Rica's PPC from the websites approx 4 months ago and he was incapable of doing that correctly. Also FYI 'The Ponce' a former poster on this and many other websites is/was Adam Weber, so go back and read some of your old post with that in mind.
Edited by hlmtuning on Tuesday 26th February 07:21
So In a nutshell
You've been lying for years, conning your customers and basically ripping them off, by selling them cr*p and inferior products. I could point to numerous times that you've said RICA is the best, RICA RICA RICA all over the internet. One would almost say that was Fraud.
You should really be on Dodgy Traders and it STILL looks like you are bitter and twisted.
Let this be a warning to tuners of all vehicles on how not to run your business (and how to ruin a once successful one) and also a warning to customers as to which garage and tuning company to run away from as quickly as possible, namely anything associated with Hamish Lindsay
Strange that you say the RICA PPC's don't work, when they are exactly the same product as the BSR PPC which work perfectly well, in fact RICA licensed them from BSR.
All I see here, is a bitter and twisted incompetent tuner who has destroyed his business through his own lack of anything approaching customer service and absolute and utter incompetence who has killed his own golden goose (ie the RICA dealership) and who is now after some bitter revenge by smearing RICA and the guy who has picked up most of the work, and who is your exact opposite in terms of ability and customer service.
Don't some of the HLM apologists over on your favourite forum at vpcuk look rather stupid, I mean they did nothing but recommend you for years, ignoring all the complaints and feedback, we all know he was raking it in with his special deals he had with you, but talk about gratitude, how to make them look rather silly in one fell swoop.
The further danger in all of this Hamish is that Adam finds out what you have said about him and decides to answer you in public, or RICA issue a public statement about what you were up to. Then you'll look even more stupid than what you do now!
You've been lying for years, conning your customers and basically ripping them off, by selling them cr*p and inferior products. I could point to numerous times that you've said RICA is the best, RICA RICA RICA all over the internet. One would almost say that was Fraud.
You should really be on Dodgy Traders and it STILL looks like you are bitter and twisted.
Let this be a warning to tuners of all vehicles on how not to run your business (and how to ruin a once successful one) and also a warning to customers as to which garage and tuning company to run away from as quickly as possible, namely anything associated with Hamish Lindsay
Strange that you say the RICA PPC's don't work, when they are exactly the same product as the BSR PPC which work perfectly well, in fact RICA licensed them from BSR.
All I see here, is a bitter and twisted incompetent tuner who has destroyed his business through his own lack of anything approaching customer service and absolute and utter incompetence who has killed his own golden goose (ie the RICA dealership) and who is now after some bitter revenge by smearing RICA and the guy who has picked up most of the work, and who is your exact opposite in terms of ability and customer service.
Don't some of the HLM apologists over on your favourite forum at vpcuk look rather stupid, I mean they did nothing but recommend you for years, ignoring all the complaints and feedback, we all know he was raking it in with his special deals he had with you, but talk about gratitude, how to make them look rather silly in one fell swoop.
The further danger in all of this Hamish is that Adam finds out what you have said about him and decides to answer you in public, or RICA issue a public statement about what you were up to. Then you'll look even more stupid than what you do now!
Edited by Simmo_J on Tuesday 26th February 09:33
hlmtuning said:
Rica is a guy who leaves customers waiting for 7 hours in our workshop to have their cars tuned, proceed to 'kill' the car and then B**ger of home leaving the customer stranded, I can assure you there are no 'sour grapes' just relief.
I could almost believe you if it wasn't for the fact that you did exactly the same thing to me.Edited by hlmtuning on Tuesday 26th February 07:21
And there was no sign of RICA on the whole car.
4 weeks to fit a HLM turbo, A VOLVOTUNING (not RICA) custom map that left the car coughing, then eventually when I wanted it sorted, refused to touch the car again.
Doesn't that just sound like what you said here.?
I could say more, but I shall refrain for now.
Simmo_J said:
So In a nutshell
You've been lying for years, conning your customers and basically ripping them off, by selling them cr*p and inferior products. I could point to numerous times that you've said RICA is the best, RICA RICA RICA all over the internet. One would almost say that was Fraud.
Hi Ben its good to hear from you !You've been lying for years, conning your customers and basically ripping them off, by selling them cr*p and inferior products. I could point to numerous times that you've said RICA is the best, RICA RICA RICA all over the internet. One would almost say that was Fraud.
No Rica have, and it took us a while to realise that. I think you will find that it was Adam who carried on 'bigging up' Rica and their claims for too long, you experienced this with 'fatman' recently after he left the employ of chip tuning. I am still happy to say that Rica is a good tuner but that is all, its nothing special and there is certainly plenty of other tuners that can do a better job.
Simmo_J said:
You should really be on Dodgy Traders and it STILL looks like you are bitter and twisted.
That is just your opinion, I can quite safely say that moving away from Rica is the best thing that has happened to my business for many years. I can now offer my customers the service they expect at the right price without having to perpetuate Rica's deceit. We are also, heaven forbid, able to make a profit.Simmo_J said:
Let this be a warning to tuners of all vehicles on how not to run your business (and how to ruin a once successful one) and also a warning to customers as to which garage and tuning company to run away from as quickly as possible, namely anything associated with Hamish Lindsay
You are almost right at the start, Rica and Adam Weber combined were ruining my business and my previously good reputation, with their ineptitude. I decided to put a stop on their ego trip at the end of last year and since then we seem to be getting back on an even keel. No more broken ECUs, no more dead cars, tuning cars when the customers want and not when some supposed computer expert feels like working. We are now offering our customers a rolling road power run before and after within the price of their tune to verify any power claims/gains. It is always best to remove the jokers from the pack if you want to play properly!!!
Simmo_J said:
Strange that you say the RICA PPC's don't work, when they are exactly the same product as the BSR PPC which work perfectly well, in fact RICA licensed them from BSR.
Granted it is the same box that Rica buys from BSR, but by Rica's own admission the way that they alter software is not compatible with PPC. I agree with you that BSR's PPC is a good product, speaking from our experience with Rica PPC I can quite safely say that it is a 'customer service nightmare' with all its problems, which is quite clearly why Rica are off loading PPC units at knock down prices.Simmo_J said:
All I see here, is a bitter and twisted incompetent tuner who has destroyed his business through his own lack of anything approaching customer service and absolute and utter incompetence who has killed his own golden goose (ie the RICA dealership) and who is now after some bitter revenge by smearing RICA and the guy who has picked up most of the work, and who is your exact opposite in terms of ability and customer service.
You couldn't be further from the truth if you tried. How can you be expected to run a distributorship for a company that prefers not to give contracts and if they have to sign any they think nothing of breaking the agreement. The idea that Rica was somehow my 'golden goose' it rather turned into a 'dead duck'! FYI I wasn't trying to smear Russ, all that I am trying to do is warn the buying public that Rica PPC is not a good product rather than perpetuate the idea that Rica's products are the best. Surely this is the way that a responsible business should behave in your eyes.
Simmo_J said:
Don't some of the HLM apologists over on your favorite forum at vpcuk look rather stupid, I mean they did nothing but recommend you for years, ignoring all the complaints and feedback, we all know he was raking it in with his special deals he had with you, but talk about gratitude, how to make them look rather silly in one fell swoop.
Ehhh???? you are making things up now to suit your story, no raking, no specials, no deals. I am however very grateful for the friendships that I have with many people on VPCUK.Simmo_J said:
The further danger in all of this Hamish is that Adam finds out what you have said about him and decides to answer you in public, or RICA issue a public statement about what you were up to. Then you'll look even more stupid than what you do now!
I look forward to more of the Adam and Roel comedy show, Adams been living in la la land for so long now he seems to have lost touch with what is real and what is a figment of his very vivid imagination. Lets have some more 275 bhp Chrysler 300c shall we! its up there with his 300+ hp T5's. The most stupid thing I did was believing in Adam and Roel for so long. A Rica public statement, would that be like Rica publicly stating they had achieved Euro 4 complience when actually all they have done is put one car through one Euro 4 test at TNO, a far cry from achieving Euro 4 complience.Good luck to anybody that buys the Rica Product there are plenty of other tuners who I have come to realise are probably better, to name a few MTE, BSR, Turbo Chips, Oscarli, Diagnos. There are many reasons why a tuner is better and the best tuner is not necesarily the one who can make up the highest power figure!
hlmtuning said:
I look forward to more of the Adam and Roel comedy show, Adams been living in la la land for so long now he seems to have lost touch with what is real and what is a figment of his very vivid imagination. Lets have some more 275 bhp Chrysler 300c shall we! its up there with his 300+ hp T5's. The most stupid thing I did was believing in Adam and Roel for so long.
So does that mean that the dyno has been properly adjusted now then.?Will it agree closely with other respected units?
There are only two possible explanations for the likes of you Hamish, either....
1. You are completely incompetent
or
2. You are a liar who resorts to bullying tactics when caught out, and who is now throwing his toys out of the pram having been proven to be nothing more than a crook.
I think you'll find the consensus of opinion leans toward the second option, especially considering the various statements made on several forums (not the one controlled by your monkey, as anything anti-HLM mysteriously disappeared from that site in very short time) about your attitude to people. You're even on record as having hurled abuse at one chap who just rang you up to ask questions about a car he had bought that your company had supposedly tuned.
And trying to blame others for your problems is a complete waste of time. It is YOUR company, YOU are responsible for its employee's conduct, YOU are responsible foe everything that it does.
Irrespective of any of the above, it was nice of you to publically admit that you have broken the law. As has already been pointed out, if your above claims about the RICA PPC are true, then you have just admitted to breaching the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (rev 1994 & 1995) by knowingly selling items that were not fit for purpose. Alternatively, if your above claims are false, then you are guilty of libel in your attempt to publically defame the RICA product.
1. You are completely incompetent
or
2. You are a liar who resorts to bullying tactics when caught out, and who is now throwing his toys out of the pram having been proven to be nothing more than a crook.
I think you'll find the consensus of opinion leans toward the second option, especially considering the various statements made on several forums (not the one controlled by your monkey, as anything anti-HLM mysteriously disappeared from that site in very short time) about your attitude to people. You're even on record as having hurled abuse at one chap who just rang you up to ask questions about a car he had bought that your company had supposedly tuned.
And trying to blame others for your problems is a complete waste of time. It is YOUR company, YOU are responsible for its employee's conduct, YOU are responsible foe everything that it does.
Irrespective of any of the above, it was nice of you to publically admit that you have broken the law. As has already been pointed out, if your above claims about the RICA PPC are true, then you have just admitted to breaching the Sale of Goods Act 1979 (rev 1994 & 1995) by knowingly selling items that were not fit for purpose. Alternatively, if your above claims are false, then you are guilty of libel in your attempt to publically defame the RICA product.
Edited by PMVGavin(NOT!) on Tuesday 26th February 21:40
And now, for further entertainment, let us take a look at the NEW HLM website....
taken from here,
http://www.hlmchiptuning.com/hlm/frames.asp
Now then Hamish, before you complain that this is out of date, I got the URL from YOUR profile on this very website, that you joined on 25th February 2008. Now, even someone incompetent would ensure they posted the link to their all singing, all dancing new website that they are so proud of.
And oh my, look, there's even an entire RICA PPC section of the HLM site.
Also of interest to the copyright lawyers from Volvo may be the remarkable similarity between some of the images on that site and Volvo's own graphics.
taken from here,
http://www.hlmchiptuning.com/hlm/frames.asp
Now then Hamish, before you complain that this is out of date, I got the URL from YOUR profile on this very website, that you joined on 25th February 2008. Now, even someone incompetent would ensure they posted the link to their all singing, all dancing new website that they are so proud of.
And oh my, look, there's even an entire RICA PPC section of the HLM site.
Also of interest to the copyright lawyers from Volvo may be the remarkable similarity between some of the images on that site and Volvo's own graphics.
RICAS60 said:
Blimey not even a word put in from Hamish's VPCUK supporters..how strange is that ..have they finally seen the light..
Unlikely that they have seen the light. More likely, he has asked them not to post here in an attempt to see this thread die quietly. I'm sure you've all noticed that the identical post he made on his monkey's forum has disappeared, perhaps a sign that he realised that he has, once again, done something stupid. However, he has no influence on this forum so is stuck with his post in the public domain. Oh, what a shame. Let's hope that anyone who considers using his services comes across this thread and it helps them see through the tissue of lies and false claims.
If you are one such person, I hope you'll find the following threads about the services of HLM (also known as VT) enlightening....
http://forums.t5d5.org/index.php?showtopic=1439
http://forums.t5d5.org/index.php?showtopic=961&...
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
http://forums.t5d5.org/index.php?showtopic=1237&am...
http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?t=431...
Ah, looky what someone found, the link to this wonderful new website.....
http://www.hlmtuning.co.uk/index.html
I wonder if Volvo Corporation know about that picture having been used on a third parties website? But then again, perhaps Hamish got his monkey to build the new site, and he's already known as a copyright infringer.
Ah, but this can't possibly be right, scroll down to the bottom of the page on this link....
http://www.hlmtuning.co.uk/about_tuning.html
And you'll find this again....
Looks remarkably like a RICA logo to me.
And the page info shows that it was last updated yesterday...
http://www.hlmtuning.co.uk/index.html
I wonder if Volvo Corporation know about that picture having been used on a third parties website? But then again, perhaps Hamish got his monkey to build the new site, and he's already known as a copyright infringer.
Ah, but this can't possibly be right, scroll down to the bottom of the page on this link....
http://www.hlmtuning.co.uk/about_tuning.html
And you'll find this again....
Looks remarkably like a RICA logo to me.
And the page info shows that it was last updated yesterday...
Edited by PMVGavin(NOT!) on Wednesday 27th February 22:41
hlmtuning said:
Yeah but they don't work!!!
Rica software by Rica's own admission is not compatible with the BSR's PPC system.
This smacks of a company trying to off load a job lot of dodgy units.
Hamish
Lookie here then.Rica software by Rica's own admission is not compatible with the BSR's PPC system.
This smacks of a company trying to off load a job lot of dodgy units.
Hamish
Not saying that 1 happy user is exactly proof of no problems, but they obviously DO work.
http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthread.php?p=28355...
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