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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 09:17 AM
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Sneed Speed Roll Bar Review (in progress)

Update: I called this morning to confirm that he had received my email and photos. I explained the issue and explained that I was not interested in making significant modification to something I paid nearly $600 for just to make it work. Also explained that I was not paying return shipping. He provided a shipping label twenty minutes later and as of 10:40 am the roll bar is back enroute to Sneed. I will update again when I receive my refund.

So my experience with Sneed4Speed @sneed4speed @SneedSpeed @sneedspeedusa has been no so good. Do not waste your time or money on this. I ordered a 4 point roll bar on the 21st, as noted earlier, he gave me the run around with shipping “on Friday, Monday at the latest” for a few weeks. He printed a shipping label last Friday and didn’t ship it until Tuesday morning. Well, guess what? It arrived zip tied together with absolutely no protection. No plastic wrap, no cardboard no nothing. One of the floor plates was bent, one of the uprights has a gouge on the mounting point and the floor plates on both uprights are welded on crooked. To top it off, the damn hoop is crooked. The passenger side is at a much sharper angle than the driver’s side. What a waste of time and money. This experience has been a headache from start to finish. So now I’m stuck with this useless garbage.

Also, trying to get this joker on the phone or get a tracking number from him is like pulling teeth.

This hoop is clearly skewed to the left:







 

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Old Aug 9, 2020 | 04:42 PM
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Too bad on this experience. I hate seeing members have experiences like this with vendors that have had good reputations on the forum.
 
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Old Aug 10, 2020 | 08:08 AM
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Yeah man, it's really a shock. I called this morning to confirm that he had received my email and photos. I explained the issue and explained that I was not interested in making significant modification to something I paid nearly $600 for just to make it work. Also explained that I was not paying return shipping. He provided a shipping label twenty minutes later and as of 10:40 am the roll bar is back enroute to Sneed. I will update again when I receive my refund.
 
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Old Aug 10, 2020 | 08:13 AM
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At least the return was relatively painless. But, still stinks you lost out on some quality track time because of the issues.
 
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Old Aug 10, 2020 | 08:19 AM
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At least the return was relatively painless. But, still stinks you lost out on some quality track time because of the issues.
For real. I missed July because of work, now this will surely cost me the a weekends I had scheduled for 22-23 and 29-30 August. Hopefully I can make one of them. I'll be contacting Bethania Garage this week to confirm build times and measurements. The last time we spoke lead times were about 3 weeks. I really should have trusted my gut, paid more and went through them in the first place.
 
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Old Jun 14, 2021 | 05:11 PM
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Glad I saw this - I was looking pretty hard at this cage from Sneed to save some time. Thanks!
 
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Old Nov 21, 2022 | 09:40 AM
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***Stay away from Sneed***

Originally Posted by scotty_r56s
Update: I called this morning to confirm that he had received my email and photos. I explained the issue and explained that I was not interested in making significant modification to something I paid nearly $600 for just to make it work. Also explained that I was not paying return shipping. He provided a shipping label twenty minutes later and as of 10:40 am the roll bar is back enroute to Sneed. I will update again when I receive my refund.

So my experience with Sneed4Speed @sneed4speed @SneedSpeed @sneedspeedusa has been no so good. Do not waste your time or money on this. I ordered a 4 point roll bar on the 21st, as noted earlier, he gave me the run around with shipping “on Friday, Monday at the latest” for a few weeks. He printed a shipping label last Friday and didn’t ship it until Tuesday morning. Well, guess what? It arrived zip tied together with absolutely no protection. No plastic wrap, no cardboard no nothing. One of the floor plates was bent, one of the uprights has a gouge on the mounting point and the floor plates on both uprights are welded on crooked. To top it off, the damn hoop is crooked. The passenger side is at a much sharper angle than the driver’s side. What a waste of time and money. This experience has been a headache from start to finish. So now I’m stuck with this useless garbage.

Also, trying to get this joker on the phone or get a tracking number from him is like pulling teeth.

This hoop is clearly skewed to the left:







I spent $9,161.00 on thier Super Cooper engine. The day I called to order the engine I talked to Chris but after the purchase that was it. No more talking to a live person. It was email the rest of the way. It took 3 months to get my engine. After spending $5,000.00 to install the engine I find out the engine is messed up. When you pour coolant in it goes straight into the oil pan. I have been trying to contact them for a week now and they are not answering emails or picking up my calls. This morning I checked their site and it down all of a sudden. I'm so screwed now. I got a pile of crap and out of $9,161.00. Wasted my deployment money I saved up while overseas. Such a shame that I'm going through this!
 
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