Female suggests Shawnee mechanic remaining motor vehicle undrivable

SHAWNEE, Okla. (KFOR) — A woman claims she took her car to an auto store for a straightforward, swift fix, only for the store to accomplish a lot more perform than she licensed, leaving the vehicle undrivable.  

Cassie Beeson dropped off her Ford Concentration to Five Star Automotive and Exhaust in Shawnee back in early December.

“It was drivable,” Beeson stated. “I did not have engine problems. My vehicle was a superior vehicle. It ran great.”

Now, going on two months afterwards, Beeson states her car does not even operate at all.  

“It is not drivable,” she mentioned. “It experienced to be pushed on to the tow truck.”

Beeson stated she initially took her car to 5 Star to have a timing chain replaced.  

She states owner Roger Channon explained to her it’d be a fast correct – no much more than a week. She paid out him $700 for the do the job up entrance.

But that 7 days-very long estimate immediately grew for a longer time.

“I acquired actually every single justification you could assume of,” she mentioned.

Beeson recorded various discussions she experienced with Channon when she visited his shop to check on her motor vehicle.

In one of their before conversations, recorded a couple months following she dropped the motor vehicle off, Channon told her the car or truck was fixed and just essential to be cleaned.

But immediately after a several more months, and additional excuses as to why the motor vehicle wasn’t prepared, she says his story changed.  

“He informed me the full engine essential to be replaced,” Beeson said. “He’d said it could be any place from $1,800 to $2,000.”

She suggests that was the closing straw, and she requested to have her vehicle again.

“I really don’t have the resources to maintain investing in this auto. I’m performed,” she reported. “His story wasn’t adding up.”

She had it towed to yet another mechanic, who informed her some terrible news.

“That it was a butcher task and that it does want an motor now due to the fact of what [Channon] did to it,” Beeson said the mechanic told her.

Information 4 talked to that mechanic. He said, in his impression, Channon have to have utilized inadequate equipment and dismantled much more of the motor than was necessary to just replace that timing chain.

“The AC compressor is now hanging out from underneath of it,” Beeson stated.

The mechanic also explained to Information 4 specified sections inside of the engine appear they experienced been burned and partially melted by some type of hot item or tool.

Information 4 caught up with Channon at his shop on Wednesday, and requested him if he took apart a lot more of Beeson’s motor than he explained to her.  

“Well, yeah. When I noticed all the sludge and stuff,” Channon told News 4. “The codes and stuff it all had in it had all the, uh, codes for the correlation. Everything was out of sync. Poor.”

He explained to Information 4 the engine was coated in oil sludge and wanted to be taken aside even further and cleaned.

News 4 questioned Channon, “Did you inquire [Beeson] if she’d be alright with you performing that extra work?”

“Well, I wasn’t likely to cost her any further for that,” Channon responded. “She just went nuts.”

The new mechanic Beeson took her motor vehicle to advised Information 4 he did not see any evidence of oil sludge buildup on the auto further than what would usually be predicted.

He also instructed Information 4 his shop, on average, sees a person shopper a month who had initially brought their automobile to Channon’s store, only for it to be still left in even worse form.

“I feel like he butchered my auto,” Beeson reported.

Beeson says Channon refunded her $400 of the $700 she’d presently compensated him, but he claimed he’d now invested $300 on new components.

She shared a Information 4 a recording she took when she questioned Channon for the receipts for individuals pieces. In it, he informs her he’d remaining them in briefcase in his truck, but someone broke into his truck and stole it.

“I did not lock my doorways on my truck mainly because of the ice and all the things,” Channon explained to Information 4. “And, uh, I skipped a pair of days of do the job for the reason that of the ice and things. And, uh, when I acquired in my truck, I noticed the bag was gone.”

Beeson, who life in Meeker and frequently travels to Oklahoma Town for needed clinical appointments, nevertheless does not have a performing auto, or the money to get a person.

She claims she wants to make guaranteed no one particular else at any time goes by what she’s working with.

“Do your owing diligence and investigation your mechanic,” she said. “Make positive it is a respected position.”