Z-One Auto

Scam!!! Took my car for 4 ½ months. Took my money. If and when he called back a different excuse. All that happened to the car was that he stripped it and left it outside to rust. Won’t return my money. Says he’s filing for bankruptcy. Property manager says he’s seen no finished work leave his shop, only cars towed away. Told another customer he sold the business. Run!!! Scammer!!!

I was hesitant to bring my car to Z-​One. I had some other things I wanted to do to it before I got it painted but Ron would send me messages through facebook to bring it in. What got me to bring it in was the price. Can’t really beat $ 1500. The car is a 1999 Lexus Sc300. I was originally told it would take about a week. The car had a bunch of door dings so that needed to be addressed. Ron said he take care of the car and I’ll be happy. It ended up taking 5 weeks. Every week I got at least one excuse sometimes two why it wouldn’t be finished that week. I’m a pretty patient person so it was no big deal with me. It did make me a little nervous because of how long it took. So I finally get the car back and I was disappointed because even though he had hosed the car down with water it was really filthy. I had this really cool digital key chain that said Lexus. It lit up whenever you handled the keys. He said «that just disappeared one day». Well you know what… it’s a pain taking keys or anything off of a keyring. They don’t just fall off! He laughed about it it like it was no big deal. So I walked around the car and saw some clear coat drips (he did say that he would fix those once I brought the car back). Ron tells me to bring the car back in a few weeks to smooth out the clear coat drips and buff the car. He says «paint is to fresh to buff». I get in my car and start driving. My jaw dropped when I looked at my mileage. I dropped it off with 129,800 miles. My mileage gauge now says 131,050 miles. This guy put over a thousand miles on my car! I was so mad but I tried to keep my cool. I texted him later that night and of course he acted like he didn’t know what I was talking about. He got back to me later and said he called the security company «ADT» and they told him from the camera footage that his only employee was coming in early in the morning and leaving at night. So basically he was blaming most of this on his only employee who just happened to quit right before I picked my car up. So of course I’m upset because he still has to finish my car but I don’t trust him. We went back and forth for awhile and he never really took the situation seriously. At least not to my satisfaction. He did mention that he did drive my car also which made me even madder. He claimed they didn’t have room at his shop to store my car so he drove it home. He claimed a total of 5 times but he only lives 10 miles from his shop. I’d really like to know where my car has been. I mean dang that’s three round trips to San-​Diego! Was my car left outside? One other thing I checked my oil and it was down a quart and they used had my gas on empty. Just crap. So I text him on April 9^th 2015. I told him that he had also damaged both my headlights and scratched one of my rims. He says I’m too late because he already sold his business. I text him back «how convenient». It sucks for me because now I have to find another shop to finish his work.