As I mentioned previously I did receive poor and even dangerous service from Boyd's Hitches on Dale Mabry in Tampa FL just a few blocks south of Gandy. I gave Mr. Jim Boyd (now in service for 44 proud proud years) ample and polite and face-saving and numerous opportunities to correct his bad acts or the bad product. I even offered to split the cost with him.
Because even though I felt it was MAINLY his fault, there was wiggle room if you apply the benefit of the doubt. He refused to compromise. He pays about 20 bucks for the part so he was charging me full labor to reinstall it. There was also the gratuitous lies told on his part. I was appalled.
All over town I asked and to a person they said: If someone brought their car back to us and we removed burnt wiring from it we would hustle our act to replace that wiring correctly with a quickness and thank our lucky stars we're still in business.
Not Jim.
He's a unique individual. Now I'm not sure if his reluctance to make things right stems from a marriage into a family that once robbed my family of quite a sum of money and even the 13th Judicial helped cover it up as they claimed they had sent a woman to prison who never did a dime of time. Because you know ... that's how they do in Tampa. So Jim felt safe that I and my car might have blown to smithereens on the interstate and taken others with us and even though I showed him my badly burnt hand and did not even once threaten to sue him he refused to fix his shoddy equipment.
So I finally had it repaired. I paid almost two hundred dollars to do so as I was starting from scratch. All I've got left from Jim is a Publix bag full of burnt stank and nasty smelling wires.
Come to find out his 'specialist' aka his GOP son had caused numerous problems that were unnecessary with his wiring of the electronic brake assist. He puts a fuse in which I had to replace around twenty times which HE said would be a fault of a bad trailer connection. Setting up for the fire in advance?? Maybe he was because the guy who delivered the camper did not have his vehicle burn to the ground, friends. Nor his wiring.
The new job has all of this fixed and done correctly.
I can still sue Jim for awhile. It makes me itch to let him get away with it but I might just be satisfied that this page has so far been read over 200 times and he can go fuck himself for being a piece of shit, a bad businessman, a soul-less thief and a scourge on society. Maybe that's enough.
By the way, still can't find him listed anywhere but he has a cover up in Tallahassee too. No one gives a fuck he's in business burning people out of their vehicles and endangering the lives of everyone who ever goes near one of his slipshod jobs.
Places to avoid: Jim Boyd
The reason I went to Jim in the first place was to support independent business. And nearly lost my life due to that. Because Jim is an uncaring thief who does slipshod work.
Stay away.
Absolutely the worst business in S. Tampa. I am shocked anyone steps foot in that place. Jim Boyd and his Son are Arrogant fucking douchebags! I have talked with dozens of people who have had very similar experiences with these Assholes. I really wish you would push this site further and sue them. Just last month a friend of mine made the mistake of going there for some hub work. What they charged him is a crime in itself! They prey on people who don't realize how elementary trailer light and general trailer repair actually is. How they are actually still in business is beyond me!
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