Well this is a long story.
DO NOT BUY FROM THIS PERSON!!!
On or about Sept 26th i ordered a dash bezel from Izn Trbl. Josh. He contacted me saying i must ship my bezel to mike weigand in order for the bezel to be fiberglassed. It took me some time to locate a spare bezel as i did not want to give my bezel up. So roughly 2-3 weeks later i sent him the bezel. Had a great turnaround time but the product i recieved was HORRID!!!!!
As you can see the bezel is very ugly compared to this:
So i contacted Josh again and let him know the outcome of the bezel. I sent him pictures of it and he was shocked to see how it looked.
So again i had to ship the bezel out to get fixed. In between talking to Josh. Mike offered to send me the bezel he had on ebay as a replacement for my bezel.
Click Here As you can see he sold it to someone else. But i eventually got my bezel back.
These are the excuses from mike himself as to why my bezel was crap.
Mike Weigand wrote:
to be honest, the first one i never seen, i was on vacation and had another guy do it, he was an older guy and thought that way was more practicle and looked better he didnt understand the whole story to it, so then i fixed the bezel myself for no cost.
its alright, after the last bezel i decided to not do any more glass work. I personaly dont have the time. Glass work you dont make money off of. A Bezel costs $50 from a junk yard, and then around $50 in materials, it just isnt worth the money. Josh did know that i did not do that bezel. And i havent touched any of the past few because i have been to busy.
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And here is how the 2nd bezel turned out.... As you can see all he did was cut down the pvc tubes that hold the gauges. It might have worked had the pvc not been angled as the gauges do not sit flush in there place.
Throughout the whole thing Josh and i kept in great contact and are still in good contact trying to get my money back. All i have to say is you have been warned and from dealing with him i would not buy from him ever again.
DO NOT BUY FROM THIS PERSON!!!
Wrench Monkey wrote:Hes also sellling a sunfire dash in the classifieds!!!
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those 3 gauges arent even straight, the middle one sits up higher than the other 2 (then again he will say its the angle of the pic)
ive never done business w/ him and i never really wanted to. i never seen his work in person i cant say anything really about his work but on the last 2 cars ive seen him do it always looks like something is always off.
From his ebay ad wrote:
Notice-The item is particially fiberglassed, rest of the dash is filled with heavy fill primer that filled the texture of the dash to give it the smooth look!
LOL, so he spread the bondo over the soft vinyl on the dash.... That'll take about a week to crack, probably crack if you tried to install it.
Tom-
If you can get your money back or somethin, I'll do a dash for you like mine. I'll send you pics of the new one, but its exactly what you are looking for. I'll even just charge you the materials
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Shifted wrote:From his ebay ad wrote:
Notice-The item is particially fiberglassed, rest of the dash is filled with heavy fill primer that filled the texture of the dash to give it the smooth look!
LOL, so he spread the bondo over the soft vinyl on the dash.... That'll take about a week to crack, probably crack if you tried to install it.
Tom-
If you can get your money back or somethin, I'll do a dash for you like mine. I'll send you pics of the new one, but its exactly what you are looking for. I'll even just charge you the materials
Sounds like a plan....
Also he just used Bondo for the whole bezel without a spec of fiberglass!!
good heads up on the warning
I'm just sick of seeing this thing show up at my house......
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ive always been very weary of his work. pics hide alot of imperfections!
like his old car in pics looked mint, then i seen it in person and looked like some horrible work. nothing even seemed like it was sanded even, just my $0.02
sorry u had such a bad experience in the whole thing. hope it can be corrected for ya.
Yeah it is shotty work at best, I knew when he was offering to do them so cheap that they were going to look like ass because no sane person would do that much fiberglass work and barely cover their time at a slaves wage for it. My feeling is do it right or don't do it at all, but not everyone feels that way and anyone can just slab a much of bondo on something.
You can tell in this pic right here the bondo has already cracked out of the vent holder.
Thats awful nice of Ron to make that offer,
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ROn RULES!!!! He was orginally gonna make me one for working on his car... instead he gave me money to buy one from Josh... had i originally known it was from Mike Weigand i dont think i would have ordered it and made one myself... but alas its too cold to do that now so ill just pay ron for a new bezel
Thanks for the heads up, I was just about to pm him about one before I read this. You saved me $$ for sure, thanks man.
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No problem man... i just dont want other people to be screwed over.
looks like the spray in bed liner, rhino lining
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I bought a bezel from him probably 6 months ago, mine didn't look like that though! It wasn't shipped in the best way and did have some cracks, maybe from shipping who knows, now it has a few more cracks, I figured they're from how much my car shakes from the engine mounts but who knows again? also the gauges don't sit even but it's smooth and i painted it purple, so it works for me! I never contacted him about the way it was shipped or the tiny cracks, figured it wouldn't change anything, sorry you had such a bad experience, lucky mine wasn't so bad!!!
CaViChicki99 wrote:I bought a bezel from him probably 6 months ago, mine didn't look like that though! It wasn't shipped in the best way and did have some cracks, maybe from shipping who knows, now it has a few more cracks, I figured they're from how much my car shakes from the engine mounts but who knows again? also the gauges don't sit even but it's smooth and i painted it purple, so it works for me! I never contacted him about the way it was shipped or the tiny cracks, figured it wouldn't change anything, sorry you had such a bad experience, lucky mine wasn't so bad!!!
The reason it cracked is because there is nothing but body filler so it cracked.
I have bags and engine mounts and 19s... lol... lots of shakes.
We fiberglassed places for 2 gauges in my center console.
It hasn't cracked the first time &that's been a year or so ago. Usually if something is done right/well, it won't crack.
It took me a while to actually believe this was a serious post because I could not believe someone would actually do that. lol
The whole layout of it doesn't even make sense....
i'm just speechless really
Lord, GL with everything. Hope you can find someone to make yah one who won't screw u over.
it cracked during shipping as well... This THING never got installed.
I'm not mad with the fact that it cracked a little, it was cheap for not sending him my own bezel, obviously it wasn't the best quality product ever and he rushes or may not know what to do but i didn't know anyone who did that type of work and when i did buy it i bought it from seeing it on ebay, didn't know he was a member of j-body even, regradless mine did not look like yours when recieved and i'm sorry you're dealing with all this, you deserve your money back.
Im glad I havent bought one from him I remember Josh telling me about you and what has been going on. I know Josh is pissed about the whole ordeal and I cant blame him. I think Josh is going to take it off his website. if not he should
I have mikes Cell phone number if you would like it, and his home address somewhere. I bought some seats of of him, and everything was cool. I did have to make new sliders even though he said they fit in his cav....
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buying things off of him and having him make things for you are 2 different things. like said above the girl said her gauges for her bezel werent even straight. every single pic i see of all his work, it looks like nothing is straight or even then his excuses is "its not finished" or "nothing is bolted in". he rushes to do everything and does like 17 projects at once and then they all get done half assed. hell cj tried to make one for the first time and for a first attempt it looked alot better than what he did.
BoltZ22 wrote:if you need another bezel for ron to start with, i still have my one you were gonna grab before. 
Awesome.... ill have to pick that up soon...
