Nefriz M.
Yelp
I first found Westcoast customs at the Camp Pendleton Marine corps base in San Onofre, CA, the shop looked clean and the employees seemed very knowledgeable, and they actually seemed to cater to military which I respected very much. I went in an asked a bunch of questions and they were able to help me, we came up with the idea to work on my 2008 Ford Mustang GT, we were going to delete the back seats, add a custom box to take the space of the back seats, add dyno Mats all over the car, one month and $8,000 later the car was complete, the work was great, not at all worth $8,000 but it still looked good. I didn't argue I paid I was supposed to receive a sign signed by the owner and all the techs that worked on my car that I never received.
Less than a year later my headlight and one of the tweeters that was installed by WestCoast Customs went out, i attempted to call the WestCoast Customs in Camp Pendleton and I was informed that the location was closed down and the headquarters In Corona, CA was the only location that was left open, I called the Corona location and they were very professional and requested I bring the car in so that they could take a look at it, I took my car in and they asked me to pay another couple of hundred dollars to change the parts, I argued that it's under warranty it's been under a year, they stated the parts were not under warranty. I went ahead and paid just to get my car back.
Now a couple of years later I started receiving a check engine sign on my car that I later found out was coming from my Gas tank, i took my car to my dealership, they were able to bring the gas tank down and they found two holes coming from the custom box that was built for me by Westcoast Customs, two screws were drilled directly from the box into the gas tank.
Now the gas tank is not cheap, after taxes before labor it's about $900USD without the gas pump, the labor however is another $700 to $900 USD. I decided to buy the Gas tank myself and decided to notify Westcoast Customs of the mistake that was made by their techs and in the hopes that they would only install the gas tank for me, I did not request compensation and I did not request anything extra.
I reached out to Lorenzo who I was told was the supervisor at the new Burbank location and I explained my entire story to him and I even included my invoice from The ford dealership, after a day or so Lorenzo reached out to me and stated on the email that they unfortunately can not help me due to the fact that I did not save my invoice showing that the work was done by westcoast customs, even though when I reached out to them after my fog lights and my tweeters went out they were clearly able to pull it up on their system and said that I had no warranty on those two parts.
I've attached all of my emails back and forth with Lorenzo of Westcoast Customs even the emails threatening to contact their legal team for telling him that I was ready to take this to social media, Google and Yelp. It's really disappointing that not only are they not able to accommodate me for the unprofessional work they done but they think they can prevent me from my constitutional rights of free speech by threatening me with their legal team. So much for supporting the military.
I would not recommend them to anybody that really cares about their vehicles, they have no values, no ethics and the only hype over them is the tv show and the popular stars that had their cars modified by them. They only cater to the rich and famous. Don't waste your time.