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    Beware of DotLow rides

    Well I took my truck to Dotlow rides an Aftermath member cause he said he could bag my truck with a 4 link plus some other small stuff. He said could be done in 4 weeks. 6 weeks later he had just completly dismantled truck and done no work. Well long story short he took 6 months to finally get started on it after repeated lies saying he was working on it and promised he would have it done or was working on it but come to find out he never was. So 6 months later he started and promised be done in couple days. 3 weeks later he stopped answering calls or texts. So had to show up at his house to get my truck and he wouldnt even come talk to me had to get his mom to come talk to me. She said he would meet me at his shop at 6pm to give me my truck. Got there at 530 and truck was sitting outside his shop with him nowhere to be found. He was to scared to even show up. So Had to get my truck towed home on a wrecker cause it was incomplete and wouldnt hold air in bags for more then 5 min.
    He did crappy work! pretty much the worst welding i have ever seen it was a cheap and week looking 3 link. the tabs welded on to the axle were only welded on one side of the brackets. The wishbone was crooked the way he welded it onto the axle. The notches he made for the frame were crooked and smaller then the frame itself and he used lots of little pieces of metal to make the notch to fill all the holes in it. He only completed half of what he was suppose to do and what he did do was wrong or messed up. When he was cutting fenders out of truck he cut through to the painted side and messed up the outside of fenders. When he mounted hood back on he scratched top of fender all up and left hood rubbing the fender and didnt even align it after repeated opening and closing rubbing all paint off fender. The whole truck is covered in metal slag from grinding and welding which then had rusted into the paint on the truck. So whole truck is covered in rust spots now.
    And he stole my license plate flip down bracket for my truck and my airline to my train horns. I could go on forever about how bad this individual is.

    long story short he caused more damage then good. And every thing he did do was so crappy that it is having to be all redone now. Everything he did is being redone. And he took my money i paid.

    So beware of Dotlow rides Dan Dattalo. guy with the purple dodge

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    Good info to know for some guys!

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    I hate these horror stories, people like that guy make alot of people gun shy of the smaller shops
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    Wow that sounds like the worst of the worst. Do you have any pictures of the truck?

    Make sure to post this up on:
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    etc.
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    Man, that does suck. I hope your able to fix it with out costing to much more. It sounds like he jacked you pretty good.
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    If ur close to a good shop just have it towed there... No use in upsetting urself more lookin at a hack job!

    Hope things wok out!

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    Damm that sucks same thing happened to a buddy of mine with kalifornia customs in San Antonio

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    Ouch!

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    Wow, I'm surprised he could get away with something like that. Up here Momma's house would have had a gas leak and burned to the ground. And in a strange coincidence his shop would have had the same thing happen.
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