I personally have bought from Wits End several times and never had a problem, but I'm in Australia and don't have $10000+ to splash on 4wd bling things so I buy what I actually need.
Wits End Order Issues / Joey Romero (2 Viewers)
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Well, things have changed since then and WE is not long for this world.
Enjoy the goodies you have.
So do any of us actually KNOW how many kits his Joeyness delivered?
He was so secretive about it and flat out refused to share any details that it begs the question, how many kits are out there in the wild?
We've all seen pics of them installed and dyno charts aplenty, but now many did the little pirate actually ship?
It's more curiosity more than anything else I think, but inquiring minds want to know...
He was so secretive about it and flat out refused to share any details that it begs the question, how many kits are out there in the wild?
We've all seen pics of them installed and dyno charts aplenty, but now many did the little pirate actually ship?
It's more curiosity more than anything else I think, but inquiring minds want to know...
1973Guppie
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I installed a turbo on a customers truck and it worked great and was well engineered. Just some honest feedback.
Oh there's no question that the kit was brilliant, that's why we all put up with his BS for so long...
If his Joeyness was half as well put together as his kit, maybe there wouldn't be twenty of us out here taking his lame ass to court.
1973Guppie
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I understand. I hope you get things resolved and get a full refund. Best wishes. N
I received my kit on February 6, 2020, installed it in March of 2020. It is a very well designed kit. I think I was somewhere in the 'teens as far as the order of kits shipped, but that is more of a guess than anything else. Just based on how many guys I saw on the board say they had received theirs.
I am a Mechanical Engineer and really appreciated the attention to detail in the kit. But, design and quality are less than half the story. Really sad to see how this went down and I feel for those who never received their kits.
Best Regards,
Mike
I am a Mechanical Engineer and really appreciated the attention to detail in the kit. But, design and quality are less than half the story. Really sad to see how this went down and I feel for those who never received their kits.
Best Regards,
Mike
Thanks to everyone for reporting. I bought 3-4 things over the years and I never got stiffed but there was always something not right like an "in stock" item taking too much time and powder coating getting delayed yet again etc... with all the support he had online it was certainly a strange dynamic set up where you were made to feel bad if you complained or sent him an email to ask what was happening..... like I was adding on to his massive and undeserved workload by sending an inquiry. Is this apology on the website new?
I think that's been up there a couple months now.. You can probably find about when going back through this thread. Speculation was he got dropped by his credit card processor and he put that message up after he picked up another one. It was down for over a week IIRC.
Base on posts here and pictures of kits being sent out. I’d say more than 20, less than 60. We will never know.
I'm certain I was delivered the last WE turbo kit, and I received mine in early October 2022.
BTW. How are you liking the Scaled Injector setup with the turbo? loving mine.
Do not want to hijack this thread with turbo kit stuff for those of us who actually received one. I wonder if we can get the Turbo Owners thread turned back on with the last couple of pages deleted? Or, make a new thread for the Turbo Owners.
To answer your question, It seems to work really well. After the learning period with the ECU, it idles fine, accelerates fine, and watching Lambda on the wideband, runs a bit more rich under wide open throttle. I am running 10 PSI of boost now with the Scaled Injector setup (and Supra fuel pump).
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That's what makes the situation so stupid, the guy had a very viable business and even if his dumb lie excuses about how many orders he had were half true then his e-commerce business at a conservative estimate was worth 7 figures. Coming from someone who owns multiple e-commerce sites he had a total sweetheart business, hell he didn't even have to use third party venues to sell which is unheard of now. If he had hired a couple monkeys, not that I believe his "one man show" bs or maybe it was true and he's just that dumb/greedy, his business could have exploded even further. He's just one of dumbest business owners I've ever seen or he's just one of those guys who steps over a dollar to pick up a penny and couldn't see anything past a few scam dollars blinding himself to the actual potential if he ran the business straight....probably both. The things that make a good criminal are the complete opposite of the things that make a good businessman.
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Yeah, watching him belittle his customers on public forums for asking legitimate questions was always cringey. Encouraging his fan boys to go after them, too, was over the top. He's a scumbag on multiple levels.
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Classic narcissistic behavior when you step back and take a long look.
Hello,
I started a new Wit's End Turbo Owners thread for discussions about the kit, for those who received one. Please keep posts in that thread on the topics of installation, maintenance, and modification of the kit. I did not want this thread getting filled with that type of info, and the previous owner's thread was locked by the admins.
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I started a new Wit's End Turbo Owners thread for discussions about the kit, for those who received one. Please keep posts in that thread on the topics of installation, maintenance, and modification of the kit. I did not want this thread getting filled with that type of info, and the previous owner's thread was locked by the admins.
Wit's End Turbo Owners - Thread #2.....
Hello, I am starting this thread intending it for discussion among those who did receive a turbo kit from Wit's End for the 1FZ-FE. It is intended for discussions related to the installation, maintenance, and upgrades of/to the kit. It is not intended for any comments or content related to...
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4wd aftermarket places are pretty much all built on hype, and if they can live up to the hype they survive. Look at Australia - ARB and TJM are the two market leaders followed by Opposite Lock and some others.
ARB and TJM definitely run more on hype that quality, and ARB's staff treat customers like s*** based on a few experiences I've had with them unless you are there to spend $10k plus on 'bling' for your 'thing'.
Joey's never given me any bad service, but at times ALL suppliers experience problems.
ARB and TJM definitely run more on hype that quality, and ARB's staff treat customers like s*** based on a few experiences I've had with them unless you are there to spend $10k plus on 'bling' for your 'thing'.
Joey's never given me any bad service, but at times ALL suppliers experience problems.
It's what a company, big or small, does to fix those problems.
Our actions define us. All we are is the sum of our habits, our choices.
Read through this thread and it shows WE has a long history of putting customers last.
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Wild to me that people still give this guy benefit of the doubt and pop in here to share their great experiences.
