Ferrari Sits Tennessee Repair Shop

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Just after waiting for a year and expending $13,000, an East Tennessee car operator is pondering when his Ferrari will be fastened.

Kevin Johnson took his 2001 Ferrari 360 Spyder to Eurohaus Motorsports fix shop in Maryville, Tennessee, a yr back and it nevertheless stays unfixed.

“I never think I’m remaining unreasonable. It’s been a yr,” claimed Johnson. “I have given him $13,700 currently. That should really be enough to go forward and fork out for all the areas required to make the repairs.”

Johnson, a previous dealership service manager, stated he usually keeps his vehicle in the garage, and for about nine months, it sat outside the house of the car fix store. When Johnson observed his automobile, the motor was in pieces and nowhere around completely ready to run.

The vehicle, which only experienced 15,000 miles on it, had produced oil and coolant leaks, and it also experienced a transmission difficulty.

“Kind of my thought and type of talking with him,” Johnson mentioned of the mechanic, “we were imagining maybe two, three months would be total turnaround time for every thing.”

Johnson claimed Robert Berry, the mechanic and owner of Eurohaus Motorsports, responding largely by using textual content messages, has offered him distinctive excuses above the past fifty percent yr on why his car isn’t fastened but.  

Berry said he’s a 1-man shop and he simply cannot get excellent specialists to function on exotic vehicles. He also claimed he’s fantastic at what he does, that he’s a perfectionist and that he’s attempting to get everyone’s automobile fastened.

Berry said he’s not getting on any extra work until he gets all the automobiles at his store fixed. Pertaining to Johnson’s Ferrari, Berry mentioned he’ll get close to to fixing it.

“I want my auto. I want my auto. I want my motor vehicle fixed just like we agreed upon,” Johnson explained.

Johnson reported Berry contacted him on Friday stating he’s attempting to do a far better career and promised him an  “accounting of repairs” to the Ferrari by Monday. Johnson stated on Tuesday, he was even now ready.

Johnson is not the only one particular who has described acquiring a problem with Berry’s restore shops.

Previous thirty day period, another customer expended $13,000 to get his 2016 Porsche mounted at Berry’s store, where by it stayed for at least 15 months. In 2015, nevertheless a further automobile owner took his basic Mercedes to 1 of Berry’s other outlets, exactly where it remained for 18 months. In the latter scenario, the proprietor took Berry to court and received.