Thorney Motorsport

Gaijin · 22 Mar 2010 at 01:29

I remember there were a few people who didn't exactly think much of Thorney Motorsport, so I thought some may find this of interest,

Make what you will of this as there are two sides to every story and only one side is told here, but it just sounds (and looks) awful.

http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?t=313678

Gaijin · 22 Mar 2010 at 13:07

Pah I preferred my original thread title but oh well

Really hope this gets sorted, can't for the life of me understand why this guy parted with money.

I'm struggling to find a reason that Thorney could come up with for this. Even if the owner was impatient and demanded the car back, it seems far fetched. His posts certainly don't come across that way.

Gaijin · 25 Mar 2010 at 14:02

Burned_Alive said:
He seems to issue proceedings against a lot of people.

Or at least threaten to.

If he concentrated on running his business instead of being an apparent crook then maybe she wouldn't get this. There are hundreds of aftermarket tuners who don't have this problem.

EDIT: Erroneous typo but is fitting so shall remain.

Gaijin · 25 Mar 2010 at 14:04

I obviously didn't post this to get OCUK in trouble, and i'm sorry if it has caused any grief

Just thought it was a good discussion point and was worth bringing to people's attention.

Gaijin · 25 Mar 2010 at 14:08

Westyfield2 said:
Internet = Free speech.

Totally, but when it comes at the potential expense of another party (in this case OCUK), then its a bit different.

Gaijin · 25 Mar 2010 at 16:32

Not to mention, the wiring looked like I had tried to tackle it

Gaijin · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:46

numnutz said:
Total PR Disaster.

Agreed, rumour has it that Thorney has folded and that JT is now the Community Manager at Infinity Ward.

Gaijin · 5 May 2010 at 20:11

Housey said:
As you were men.

Poised, clad in spandex, and tenting then?

Gaijin · 22 Sep 2011 at 18:00

peterattheboro said:
Whilst it's good that Thorney has attempted to get his experience across, the pictures don't lie. The work was awful. But if the mechanics have been sacked then fair enough.

Thing is, rightly or wrongly, and truthfully or not, duff work in these cases always gets blamed on the "mechanic that no longer works there".

It's an anonymous, silent scapecoat which is often used for black bag carpet sweeping exercises.

Not saying this is what old Thorney has done here mind.

Gaijin · 23 Sep 2011 at 09:52

Muncher said:
Oh and I bought the first Chris Tullet exhaust for the VX which lead to John promising to supply anyone who wanted one a £200 exhaust manifold purely to teach him a lesson and attempt to ruin his business. Of course no such £200 manifolds were ever forthcoming.

I'd forgot about that ridiculous episode.

Fantastic way to run a business. Put it this way, regardless of his statement which is God knows how late, I'm glad he's not my nearest Jap specialist.

Gaijin · 24 Sep 2011 at 11:34

Then again, if I ran a statement past my lawyer, i'd expect the spelling and grammar to be top notch also

Gaijin · 24 Sep 2011 at 14:32

It won't go any higher than that. There's a little more to SEO than keyword stuffing