Slates Body & Equipment

I would give zero stars how this place is not shut down and the owner in prison is beyond me. Criminal

BUYER BEWARE! Before I go into my review I must state that Slates Body did get a liftgate working on my truck that was not working, and Ted Slates was friendly through the process. However the time and results for what I was charged was completely out of line.nnI dropped the truck off Tuesday morning and called each day thereafter to get a status on the truck and where they were at with it, which I was never given an exact answer other than they were working on it and it was a big mess, I asked multiple times if they could give me an estimate on how many hours they had into the job and they didn't know. (Seems like that should be an important thing to track) I finally got an answer that I could pick the truck up Friday evening, but when I called to confirm, the pickup day was moved to saturday which I then did pick it up. I was told they had 32 hours @$70/hr in labor to repair, that does not include parts. When I got the truck home it looked like they had spend a couple hours on it. Corroded wiring were repaired but with black tape and a twist, no connectors or shrink wrap. The entire liftgate had been greased (supposedly it was frozed up) even though I grease it every service, which had been done a week before. The rubber cover that had begun to fall apart protecting the electronics was put back together with wood screws. Total for the job cost me $2240! As much as I wanted to argue about the job I needed the truck back since I had been out of work since Tuesday! Also Ted told me that if I paid cash he would not charge me tax to save some money. I told him I'd write a check instead, he wanted to charge me tax then but he wanted the check made out to him not his business (pretty sure he would of pocketed the tax at the bank) After a few back and forth questioning about his business name and his name he just said pay me the $2240.nnSo if you do decide to do business with these guys they will probably fix whatever you need repaired but don't be surprised that it's going to cost you a small fortune for poor results.

WISH I COULD GIVE 0 STARS. TED IS A GREEDY SELFISH OLD MAN THAT WORKS THE SYSTEM.AKA TAX EVASION! STOLE OUR MONEY AND NEVER PERFORMED ANY WORK(ACTUALLY LEFT FOR FLORIDA ON OUR DIME). HAS BEEN TAKEN TO COURT MULTIPLE TIMES.DO NOT GIVE THIS COMPANY ANY WORK!!!