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Posted 10 June 2009 - 08:52 PM

hi guys.. just thought id ask, why has garys car radio in preston shut its doors..

my cousin was getting an installation done there, and they rang him to come collect his car... they had removed his petrol tank from his vs ute to build an enclosure in that location, and seeing as though the cars on gas, they left it out and just said come take your car out the shop, we are closing..

they had the car for 2, of the 3 weeks he said they could have it for, because he was in no rush to have the job finished, and yeah, they didnt do it.. dint even re-fit the tank..

they told him the locks will be getting changed soon on the shop, so best you come down now and get it pls..

anyone heard any news on this...

(why didnt i/we do it ourselves?? because he got qouted $200 for this install, so he was happy to just pay instead of mucking aorund) i told him a cheap qoute ISNT a good qoute, its a cheap job.. (in most cases) but he booked it in before i could talk him DIY...

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 01:20 PM

no big loss IMO
every time i have dealt with that company, that shop in particular i have had nothing but problems!
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 01:40 PM

isnt the owner of that shop, the brother of the owner of bundoora st sound and vision???

im told the preston store is the original 'GARY' of gary's car radio stores..

and yes, your right, no great loss imo either...

each store is diffrent tho, ive had good experiences with the watsonia store.. they know there stuff, very friendly, the owner even sat in my car and had a listen, talked some crap even AFTER knowing i wasnt buying anything from him.....
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 04:27 PM

i thought 'gary' was at watsonia... but from what i know preston is definately closed. why? im not sure.

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 05:28 PM

I went to a Gary's once, and the guy BS'd and whatnot, then quoted some rediculous prices for mediocre gear.

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 06:22 PM

jukebox, on Jun 11 2009, 01:40 PM, said:

isnt the owner of that shop, the brother of the owner of bundoora st sound and vision???

im told the preston store is the original 'GARY' of gary's car radio stores..

yeah i believe it is.

there is a write up on here somewhere about that bundoora sound and vision from when me and kirk went in there..
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Selling Fudd an amp (for a fraction of the real price) that had been returned by Autobarn Geelong which had been incorrectly used by AB Geelong and turned out to be faulty when Fudd started using it.
Whilst he was given a new amp after it could not be fixed, he never acknowledged any of the assistance given and bitches to this day about it.

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Posted 11 June 2009 - 09:51 PM

oh, i REALLY want to find that write up fudd........ hehe..
i have a story about there aswell, but its not the place.. ill tell you in person.. a classic!!!!!!

the guy i spoke to at garys in watsonia' name was geoff i thought... it was a while ago though... he was into his sq set ups too..
a REALLY nice, friendly guy. not the usual salesman stuff you get at those stores.....

they dont give alot of discount, i know that much... :)
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Posted 11 June 2009 - 11:05 PM

just did a huge search fudd..
thru your 12 pages of threads, lol.....
nothing under bundy st s'n'v..

linky for me ??? or a steer in the right direction, is it one of kirks topics, ???
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 10:32 AM

nope, looks like its gone.

that thread was funny as hell though!

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 10:56 AM

gone??

bugger!!!

nah trust me mate... i didnt ignore him.. actually had quite a heated discussion... :)

you have a pm ;)
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 09:37 PM

why on earth did they take the fuel tank out? if your putting the enclosure in that area theres no need for the fuel tank to be removed, thats just bazzaar
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Posted 12 June 2009 - 10:11 PM

who knows mate...

i think the tank was coming out to make room for a bigger box, maybe.. dunno, never even asked, i was too shocked by the fact they didnt do the job in the 2 weeks the actually had the car to think about anything else at the time..
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Posted 13 June 2009 - 07:54 PM

Ha,,, Gary Pearce... " Gary's car radio.. i thought Gary was still at Heildburg.. well its been awhile.. he was very well know in the Van scene as he built the famous Van called Jade.. top van for sure.. i also know Eric the guy who brought this van off him and still has it, even better condition now than it ever was,, anyway back to Gary, he was always a little bit funny to deal with even in the late 70's and 80's. from the last time i spoke to him at an Autosalon in 2006 or 2007 he was still a bit funny..
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Posted 14 June 2009 - 01:48 AM

i most likely would have met the "gary" your talking of, as ive been into all those gcr stores around that area.. but having met rodney pearce, that was enough for me, lol.....

BTW, is there anyone you dont know Daz??? lol.....
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Posted 10 October 2009 - 10:59 PM

i would tell you guys my story. around 8 years ago, i used to live in Thornbury. one day, I brought my dynaudio 5.5 inch component with me, tried to install into my 1986 Honda accord. Just let everyone know, my component is old fashion one with 2 inch tweeters, now is 1 inch.

On the appointment day, I was supposed to give them the car at 9. but i was late(half hour), nevermind. they started the job anyway.

I pickup my car at around 5, but i found that they put my tweeters in the front door panels, 5.5 midbass at rear panel under the rear windscreen, remember that is 4 door sedan. Can you believe it??????

I asked me why, and he said that speakers are not for car use. not 4 ohm speakers!!!!

Can anyone tell me what ohms of the speakers by out looking (ha ha)???

And then i asked him to do it for me again, but he said it's too late to fix it and asked me to book another time. Of course he asked for more money because more job needed to be done.

I felt really angry and upset. He said I was late in the morning and felt not happy. the thing is, if they needed more time, they can ask, I don't mind to leave him the car for another day. but they just want to stop here and kick me out.

Can you imagine the tweeter in the front door, midbass at the rear, how is it sound? unbelieveable. it seems like they have no knowledge on component system.

Then I went the another Gary's in bell street. In advertising, it was described as head office. So i went there, they tested the speakers for me and said it runs around 5 ohms, so it is good for car use. What's the point to test the speakers. They knew nothing.

I asked them to fix the problem for me, of course, again, they asked for money. no matter whose fault it was.

The only one thing I felt good is the attitude of the bell street' staff. compare with preston store, at the end they started want to push me, try to scary me.

I wish no other members has negative experience like mine.

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