turbochargers.com/artisan performance

[Angry_Tc_Guy]

hey guys,
just came from the tc forums to warn everyone about turbo chargers.com and its sister company artisan performance. artisan performance used to be known as zpi, they used to specialize in tc and do some subi work as well. about a year or so ago they went under and scammed a lot of people out of a lot of money, me being one of them. as they were shutting down they still took orders and let cars into their shop, when the time came they locked serveral customers vehicles in their shop and took off to texas. this is where turbo chargers comes into play, kenny strickler manager and owner of zpi convinced them to become part of their shop under the name of artisan performance. turbo chargers is harboring a thief, i believe you guys should think twice before buying from such a shady company.

here is a link to the scionlife forums where all of this played out: ScionLife View topic - What really happend to ZPI - **Update on Pg1**

close to the end of the thread pg. 50 some one finds that he is registered under turbo chargers and uses the old companies email.
on page 54 there is an previous associate of kenny describing his "work ethics".

here is a link to a picture of the thief....he is the one in the center.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q...xMarketing.jpg

thanks.

[Drasticc]

good lookin...since i know a particular vendor or two that buys parts from turbochargers.com to build turbos...

bump.

[addictedtosin]

Hey isnt that the guy that drives the spaceship around in the movie SERENITY?

[turbojack]

Wasn't turbochargers.com selling clipped stock turbo's on here back in 03 and 04 and part of 05? I think the issues was the quality was so bad that they pulled out and stopped actively selling on here becuase of all the poop that happed with failed turbo's and warranties not honored without a major fight.

If I'm not mistaken, there were more then a few savy people on here who got fudged not just dumb noobs dry revving the piss out freshly installed turbo.

I also have the memory of them as being more then just a little arrogant.

Who's reselling or re-branding turbochargers.com turbo's...........that should be openly shared info so the others do get burned.

[ptperformance]

Quote: Originally Posted by turbojack

Wasn't turbochargers.com selling clipped stock turbo's on here back in 03 and 04 and part of 05? I think the issues was the quality was so bad that they pulled out and stopped actively selling on here becuase of all the poop that happed with failed turbo's and warranties not honored without a major fight.

If I'm not mistaken, there were more then a few savy people on here who got fudged not just dumb noobs dry revving the piss out freshly installed turbo.

I also have the memory of them as being more then just a little arrogant.

Who's reselling or re-branding turbochargers.com turbo's...........that should be openly shared info so the others do get burned.

I do not think that there is anyone selling there turbo's anymore. They all failed and burnt through all there WD buyers. We were buying parts from them till we found that the compressor wheels were (some were) china built but we were getting charged Mitsubishi pricing for. Not sure whats happening now but it seems that there are few heads rolling over at Mitsubishi right now to get this all figured out.

They TCC did have the first upgradded wheel in the stock turbo, it failed all the time and the shafts broke as well. I can not think of one person that has a good unit on there car from them (modded stocker). I have been told that they are getting back into the market with the modded stocker.