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Originally Posted by JRas
this is why you pay with money up front always...
talk to the mechanic be cool about it and try to get your stuff back, pay him the money you owe him and get your stuff back.. hopefully.
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I would be careful about paying people up front. Sometimes if you do that they get quite lazy about doing the work and take forever. They have no incentive to finish the job because they have been paid already.
Oh and the way that shop took his car and did what they did is completely illegal. Possession is not 9 tenths of the law.
Plus if the shop does not inform a person that they will be charged storage fee's for leaving a car or engine there they cannot claim it after the fact. If they legally file a lien the owner can pick the item up for whats owed.
They can only be held responsible for storage fee's if they were previously informed of the possibility of storage fees in advance.
Now with all that said any responsible shop or person will inform the owner that they need to pick the item be it car or whatever. Not informing them is no excuse for holding there car or item hostage. I.E. if a shop moves or a person moves with someones possession it basic honest behavior requires them to inform the person so they can get their item.