That's a bummer I need some revisions and he tuned my car. It's hard to read any bad blood, it sounds like burnout and needing a break. I guess we'll see.
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Feel like this is a consistent theme in tuning shops
Tuners want to tune, not run a business. So someone runs the business, slowly but surely screws the tuner out of money/recognition, and then the tuner leaves.
Shop dies a year or two later.
Tuners want to tune, not run a business. So someone runs the business, slowly but surely screws the tuner out of money/recognition, and then the tuner leaves.
Shop dies a year or two later.
If little shops in MN are feeling the heat, hard to believe shops with rep aren't. You also see a steady stream of shops being nailed with fines. It sucks.
Yea but how do we know this has any relevance to why Rob is taking a break from tuning and parting ways with PBD?
Seems incredibly speculative. Ken posted a job opening back in February. This may have been in the works for a while now…
PBTH was always my go to for anything down there when I lived in WPB.
Jake is the man
Jake is the man
This x65000
Always have a ‘face’ and the guy doing the work.
Guy that’s the face gets to kiss babies and essentially **** off, guy doing the work starts working 3x the hours the face guy does; for half the money. Animosity starts growing, and turns into resentment.
Idk where I’ve seen this before
So glad I’m out of that industry. Guys will cut the leg off someone they’ve known 10 years, to make minimal money. Cutthroat af. And the politics are insanity.
If Rob created this tune for the ST, then that's pretty badass! Saw this when it came out and wish I went with an ST instead of my
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This x65000
Always have a ‘face’ and the guy doing the work.
Guy that’s the face gets to kiss babies and essentially **** off, guy doing the work starts working 3x the hours the face guy does; for half the money. Animosity starts growing, and turns into resentment.
Idk where I’ve seen this before
So glad I’m out of that industry. Guys will cut the leg off someone they’ve known 10 years, to make minimal money. Cutthroat af. And the politics are insanity.
I would say that’s an unfair characterization of PBD.
Ken, the owner, has been tuning cars for 20+ years.
To suggest he dumped everything on Rob and was “****ing off” is BS in my opinion…
We don’t know why Rob left, I’d like to hear some more info but I personally don’t think the quality of PBDs tunes are going to suffer.
It’s probably going to take a lot longer to get things done but I’m confident they will survive this.
Yes the blue GT500 is Kens car.
I’m definitely not gonna knock a man launching an 1800rwhp car down the track… that shit takes balls and wrecks do happen.
Definitely big news. If you are a coyote or 20+ gt500 guy... there are still plenty of good options, however.
Lund, Wengerd (lots of positive press lately), AED, and Luis Ortiz.
Lund, Wengerd (lots of positive press lately), AED, and Luis Ortiz.
I am mildly interested to see if he took any of his tunes with him.
You know, they can’t take away his knowledge.
But the specific tunes are probably proprietary…
Im sure he’ll be fine tuning cars if and when he decides to do that…
I really only see a back log of tuning work for PBD being the issue for them. They get a lot of work and losing Rob probably hasn’t made anything easier.
I’m didn’t say that’s what happened, just that’s what I’ve seen from being in the industry for years. Ken has been in this game a LONG time, as has Rob. So it had to be something major to have that sort of fallout, but hey, shit happens.
As you said, they’ll survive.
TREED ME!! LOL
You like that three male, male and female stuff?
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