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Old 01-08-2014, 10:23 AM
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Crate Engine Depot service

Many of these threads are negative, but not this one. Special shout out to Tom. Here's my story.

So middle of December I'm at a red light and a camaro is taunting me me being the immature guy i am launched when the light turned green. Bad idea as by doing so my clutch went out on me go figure. So I order the Gm clutch upgrade kit off of Toms website and it arrived a little late due to bad weather not due to Tom. Well parts come in and I decide to do the work by myself the following weekend but with it being at my grandpas house and him being retired he decides to try to do it by himself. Go figure he messes up the clutch disk and we have to reorder a new kit. Now its Dec 23 when the order is placed and being that it wasn't processed until Dec 24 I feared the worst that I wouldn't get the parts by Friday in order to finish the job. Tom took it upon himself to personally drop off the parts at UPS and low and behold everything was hete by the 26th. Jobs finished and squints black beauty is back on the road. Tom also sent all the instructions to install. Way to be an awesome vendor will gladly do business again in the future. Keep up the awesome work Tom
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tom is one of the best no doubt. i live near, but nevertheless i get my parts next day every single time.

real nice dude in real life too!
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Tom is the man.

Always got me the parts I needed fast.
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if only he could cut some hella deals for repping his store so hard
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I don't know if anyone has actually had anything bad to say about CED or Tom, Guy is the best when It comes to tracking down parts, and general customer service!
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Originally Posted by riceburner
if only he could cut some hella deals for repping his store so hard
His prices are pretty much GM employee price as it is, which is 10% over cost. I don't think he could go any lower and still make money
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Toms great!!!!
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yeah I agree tom/CED is amazing. and yeah his prices are rock bottom. ive bought a few things from him and I will continue to do so. cheers tom!
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I love that i only live an hour away from this place!!!! they have saved my ass more the once! 5 star place. 5 star guy!
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toms always a very good guy... im surprised to hear that you saw negative reviews.

its possible....everyones so quick on the trigger to make a bad review but even if you offer a small incentive most people dont take time to leave good ones.

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Originally Posted by Omiotek
toms always a very good guy... im surprised to hear that you saw negative reviews.
I think he meant most of the other review threads are negative...
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Tom is awesome.

I placed an order for some upgrade parts and he called me maybe an hour later. He was packing my order and the quantities I ordered seemed strange to him. His call was actually to tell me I ordered too many parts to do the job on my car. I was surprised he called because he thought I bought oo much! (I am doing two cars though).

It is just awesome he cares enough about his customers to make sure they get exactly what they need.
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Originally Posted by riceburner
if only he could cut some hella deals for repping his store so hard
Thats it, for you riceburner I will take an extra 10% off of anything you order today.




Thanks to everyone else for the kind words, we try, we can't always be the cheapest but we do our best to be as competitive as possible. We are looking into some new ideas here for 2014.
As our cars are getting older, I will be adding more items to the website, for one we just added all the weatherstrips, if yours are starting to dry rot we can get them for you:
Weather Strip Link

If there are other items you can think of just drop me an email and I will be happy to research them and get them on the site if they are not already there.
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Tom need a money tree. can you stock those? and would they come with a warranty? gauranteed to harvest dollars? haha
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Originally Posted by CrateEngineDepot
Thats it, for you riceburner I will take an extra 10% off of anything you order today.




Thanks to everyone else for the kind words, we try, we can't always be the cheapest but we do our best to be as competitive as possible. We are looking into some new ideas here for 2014.
As our cars are getting older, I will be adding more items to the website, for one we just added all the weatherstrips, if yours are starting to dry rot we can get them for you:
Weather Strip Link

If there are other items you can think of just drop me an email and I will be happy to research them and get them on the site if they are not already there.
10% for riceburner?!?

Fawk, I spend more on genuine gm parts than prob most do on this sight.

Thanks a lot Tom!!!

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Originally Posted by Staged07SS
10% for riceburner?!?

Fawk, I spend more on genuine gm parts than prob most do on this sight.

Thanks a lot Tom!!!

Fine, 11% for you today.
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I agree with everyone above, Tom is a great guy to deal with and is always as helpful as possible.

He hooked me up with everything i needed for my brembo swap and gave me a great shipping deal.


Keep up the great work
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Originally Posted by CrateEngineDepot
Fine, 11% for you today.
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but now you hafta pay double shipping. bahahahaha
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Uh huh.... but they didn't know that.
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Originally Posted by CrateEngineDepot
Uh huh.... but they didn't know that.
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We need flat rate shipping on stickers!
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its called an envelope + a stamp lol
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Originally Posted by yellowsupercharged06
its called an envelope + a stamp lol
and the site callss it $8+ via UPS.
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Originally Posted by BlackSSstg2

and the site callss it $8+ via UPS.
Thats why Tom is the ***** truckin Man!

....PM him and i bet he will hook ya up.


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