I'm not saying he's incompetent with these cars- he might very well be a good guy to work on your car, but watch out what you buy from this guy.

I bought an exhaust system full of antifreeze and oil from a car that my mech. told me had a blown head gasket (antifreeze and oil leaked in). When I started it, smoke, the smell of antifreeze, and a clogged cat.

I also got an alternator from him that died within 20 km of installing it.

That alone would not have forced me to post this. But when he said he'd refund me a portion of the money that I'd paid as a gesture of good faith, and then when I asked him for it said, and I quote: "I changed my mind" made me change my mind about posting this.

Be sure to thoroughly check everything you buy from him. It might not 'work' as well as he says it would.

ok so the exahust had crap in it?? its not really affecting youre car is it?
juss blew smoke for 5 minutes scared you and went away?
and the alternator are you aure it was bad when you bought it? I'm sure he wouldnt purposely sell you a blown alternator, actually I know he wouldn't....
overall my impression of Dean is quite positive as I know many others would agree.
I'll give dean a

a) When buying the exhuast, or any part, wouldn;t you atleast look at it's condition? You knew it had that crap all over it. Your Fault.

b) You could of installed that alternator wrong, alot can go wrong in a 20min drive, it took my car a split second to loose all power and die, how? the alternator, whos fault? probably mine.

I do not want to play the your word against his word game here.
I would normaly refund the money due to the fact that I would feel bad and it's not the buyers fault. But at the time he insisted to take the alternator off my hands and I let both items go for what was originaly agreed to sell the exhaust for. I just cannot justify a refund in this case.
Both parties are at fault here. End of story.

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I have never sold a dsm member junk before in the past. Junk is junk.

I'm not going to put any comment on Dan's case, since I don't know the details anyway. But I bought something from Dean few months ago, and the condition is exactly the same to the desciption he had on his posting. It was a smooth transaction to me.

I've bought items from Dean as well, no problems.

Maybe when you blow a third alternator you'll think to look else where for the problem?

As for the cat, why didn't you look through it upon inspection?

Deans a good guy. You'll find that anyone onthe board that knows him will agree.

There is no way that enough coolant and oil can cling to the walls of a downipe to even come remotely close to clogging a cat. I've seen blown turbos dump their entire oil supply into the downpipe causing a smokescreen that coverd a 4 lane road, and the cat was not harmed. The thin FILM of oil that may have been there won't do $hit.

I hear you've blown a few alternators already?

Maybe you should put up a bad guy post about your mechanic instead of dean. From what i hear, you got raped hardcore for the alternator install, and subsequent reomval, as well as the exhaust installation.

I like Deano. He gets a hug from me too.