Tired of helping people!!!!!

[Guero]

Well since Im pretty good on installing parts on 5.0 all my friends always call me and ask for help and tips on installations. Well for one friend I installed his heads cam intake and everything. I would go over to his house everyday after work and do work for about a week till I finished. Well anyway I finished got the car running right and stuff week later something gave out and it wouldnt styart cant remember what. Well anyways I fixed it and got it running same thing happened again with something else breraking and did the same. Well finally he got rid of the car but not the engine installed the engine in a new body for him. Well any ways there was someting up with his brake system and I said you know what I wont help with that cuz I dont wanna mess up and cause uyou to crash or something and was like cool youve helped out alot.


Well anyways my point is, that this whole week Ive been texting him and he doesnt answer and call and same. Well he answered once and said he was busy. Well anyways I texted him that If I could borrow his maf and a couple of stuff so i dont spend money if mine work, now he wont text back or say nothing. I just hate how ungrateful people can be when you help them out with everything they ask for when their down but once you ask for something so simple they ignore you. So I came to the conclusion that Im just gonna start charging for my work no matter who it is except my bros and parents.


Just needed to vent I guess!!!!! Just pissed how people can be....

 

[94GTCoupe]

i hear you.

you help someone out,not for something in return,but because your a good guy.

than when you need a little help,their nowhere to be found.

at least you know now the kind of person he is.

just stick to your guns,everyone will soon get the message that you are not the one to try and take advantage of.

 

[DarkStallion095]

helpling jerks

Yeah I know what you mean. Reminds me of a guy I used to know. I remember helping install halo lights (5 hours) to install, re-adjust and re-adjust, drive him around when his car was down for many other various instances, give him rides to work, feed him at my apt...pick up cars for him and drive them back 100 miles round trip...invite him to parents house for dinner (we were starving students at the time), trouble shoot car (hours)....and when I wanted to buy his stang seats he had for sale (I didn't know he was going to sell them during the years I knew him and helped him) he said he wanted 400 for them...and I could only come up with 375 (borrowed 50 bucks from my dad) and he said, "I am just going to wait on that other guy I told you about"...keep in mind I had cash in hand lol. Yeah that was the last time I talked to him. You hand someone a cup of water, they drink and leave just enough to throw in your face. It sux because for those of us who like helping people, when the time comes when we need a hand (few and far in between), can't depend on -no-one-. Oh, and here is the kicker...if you don't help when you can...your being a B!T@%. "Darned if you do and darned if you don't....there I am okay now

 

[hotcobra03]

sounds like the story of my life.....

Dude get used to it...as a shop owner all my friends have done that at one time or another...getting parts at jobber or even jobber plus 10% at others ,friends take full advantage.......my buddys wife who hates me,tryied having him call me at 3am to see if i would help him,,being friends i asked where are you im on my way...she was pissed ..we both help each other no matter what,

 

[Pokageek]

He may have an issue with you about the brakes and if so that is HIS problem not yours. He needs to grow up! You are not holding a grudge on him but sounds like he is trying to prove a point. Again, thats his problem. Those kinds of peeps are too much maintenance.

Now, in terms of giving help? I made my mind up I will help people if I have time. many times I dont but I try. Never expect it back tho. It makes life simpler. It will come back to you.

 

[95BlueStallion]

Im pretty lucky. I just replaced the clutch in my buddy's old winter truck, but he has helped me with little odd jobs ever since Ive known him. My friends are all real good about helping each other out. Sorry to hear about your dilema man. Move to Iowa where 90% of people would stop on the side of the road to help you out.

 

[SublimeRT]

I know how that goes. It's happened too many times to me. Every now and then you'll find some good guys though that are just as willing to help out as you are. That's one of the things that make this hobby so much fun.

 

[moostangvert]

it sucks to be nice. i helped a friend bhis jeep. gears, doubler t-case, engine, the whole 9.
well, when it came time to my mustang, it was all me. i got a few helping hands along the way but its whatever. ive made up my mind im gonna only help people who help me. no more volunteer work for me. i love it when it comes time to get my car running, they're asking for rides.

 

[Labora]

Doesn't sound like a great friend. When it comes down to cars sometimes you can only count on yourself, but it sure is nice when you get a helping hand.

I've done my share of work with no return, sometimes you get nothing for it and sometimes you get a return when you need it.

 

[Nik_95Cobra]

That sucks mang, there's better friends out there!

 

[Stevejr]

I got one of them guys down the road too. I should have known it when I first met him. He saw some SS laying in my shop and my welder, and said something both me makin him a skid for his dirt bike. I said sure but I,m outta gas I will when I get some, He said great. Well when i went and picked up the dirt bike I just rode it to the house he said and I quote "If you drop it you bought it" I would have been money ahead to have said "Ok nevermind" But i didnt since then he has let me and my wife mow his yard buy him beer and cigarrettes never a dime offered, however i was down at his house the other day and saw a roll of insulation laying on his desk in his garage and asked for a piece 2 ft long. Your not gonna believe this He told me and I quote "Nah cant get rid of any of that gonna put in on the ceiling in here one day"

 

[95.0Stang]

I wish I had someone like you around. I have a bad back and legs and as much as I desire to work on the car I get about an hour into it and then have to stop, it ticks me off, so I end up paying a shop to do it because I cant have the car down for a week at a time really as i normally drive it to and from work.

Point is dude should appreciate you and stop being a butt

 

[Guero]

Well Like I said Im done helping its not the first time it happens either. So Ima charge. I already got a call to help mine of my friends to "help install a intake" this guy cant even do plugs. So basically he told me if I could do it for him. I said I can for 100 bucks. He didnt like that to much and said nevermind. He texted me later and asked when I could do it. lol

 

[moostangvert]

Well Like I said Im done helping its not the first time it happens either. So Ima charge. I already got a call to help mine of my friends to "help install a intake" this guy cant even do plugs. So basically he told me if I could do it for him. I said I can for 100 bucks. He didnt like that to much and said nevermind. He texted me later and asked when I could do it. lol

still cheaper than ashop

 

[STM1965]

I got a nephew lives right across the street...together we own 1 snow blower, 1 lawn mower, 1 weed eater, I service the machines....he buys the gas! But he's family! Now the two older gents that live on either side of me, I take care of the snow for them...they didn't ask I just did it....last winter we left for Mexico in March (just so happened we got a huge snow storm later that day) My nephew didn't clear my snow! The neighbours did! By HAND! no questions asked! Some folks help others be it with time spent doing skilled tasks or just plain adding a pair of hands! Others (including family) don't think or do!

 

[neoxaero]

I'm a little late chiming in here buuuut...

I helped my room-mate do a very lengthy stereo install in his car.. by "helped" I mean, i did 95% of the work..

Any time I've needed to do something to my car hes no-where to be found..

The thing that REALLY chaps my ass is - He had to have some work done to his car awhile back.. So I drive the guy around every where he needed to go.. work.. w/e... Never a thank you, never an offer to pay for the gas (This was when premium was like 4bux a gallon.....)

I totaled my car out a few months later, ask him to run me to the grocery store and dude acts like i asked him to sacrifice his mother...

Ungrateful people piss me off -- but I'll keep helping people out cause I'm a sucker like that.. and its good Juju... and you can't ever have to much good juju

 

[cbarr300]

ha, try being in 2 Ford clubs and working at a shop that predominately works on Fords.....That doesn't work out too well.

Really though I've never had a problem with anyone that I've helped. If I know the person well I'll usually do it mostly free of charge..if not just for some beer or food.

The people I'm kinda unsure about I usually don't do work for and tell them to come to the shop. If it's something small I have no problem doing it....but I always let them know there MIGHT be a charge depending on if I run into some "work" that a previous shadetree did. I usually tell them how much I'd charge them up front and if it turns out to be easy I just tell them, "Merry Christmas."

 

[ProKiller]

i don't really get it for car work but i do for other work. "helped" a guy move. I got a truck from work for free, loaded it all up, unloaded it, brought most of his stuff up to his 3rd story apartment. all for nothing but a thanks for the truck man. when it came time for me to move, dude was no where to be found