Is it really fair for someone's passion and hard work to be undermined by subpar parts on their racing motorcycle? The pursuit of excellence should not be compromised by shortcuts. Judge Judy would surely deliver justice if she heard about this injustice! Let's demand accountability and quality in everything we do, especially when it comes to our passions. Don't settle for anything less than the best! #RacingLife #QualityMatters #JudgeJudyJustice #DemandExcellence #NoShortcuts #PursuitOfExcellence #MotorcyclePassion #FightForFairness #HoldThemAccountable #RaceToWin #UncompromisingQuality#StandUpForYourRights
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00:00that you have against Mr. Smith,
00:02if you are unsuccessful in collecting anything
00:05from Mr. Smith in that lawsuit,
00:07then you are free to come back here and say,
00:10listen, I got nothing from this lawsuit for my bike,
00:14and so I paid to have it fixed myself,
00:17and I want it fixed right, and he didn't fix it right,
00:21so I want some of my money back.
00:23But if you get a full award in another court,
00:26against Mr. Smith, and I've given you money
00:29for the same motorcycle, then you got paid two times,
00:32so you have your choice.
00:34Well, yeah, it's two separate instances, ma'am.
00:36The accident is the accident,
00:37and what he did is what he did.
00:39Am I not making myself clear?
00:41You're making yourself, to me, you're not, ma'am, honestly.
00:43I honestly believe that the two separate instances,
00:46I used my own money, normally I would have used the,
00:49so if I, let's just say, can I say this out please?
00:51No, no, no, no, there was only one bike and one accident,
00:53and I'm not saying that you can't use your own money,
00:56but I'm saying that you can't use your own money
00:58to fix a bike and one accident.
01:00Just a second, there was only one bike and one accident
01:03that you took in to be repaired,
01:05and you are suing Mr. Smith for the same injury to the bike.
01:08I'm suing Mr. Smith for the injury to the bike,
01:10and I'm suing Mr. Aitken because he did
01:12lackluster work on my bike, he misrepresented
01:14what he was gonna do on the bike, and that's why.
01:17I paid him five grand for doing work on a bike
01:19that he was not supposed to do.
01:21If you had $5,000, and you could make, just a second,
01:25a 2017 accident, you would be whole.
01:28Negative, because I have spent $5 of my own money,
01:30I would not be whole, I would be whole if I got.
01:32No, but you're gonna get, but if you were.
01:34But I don't know that, ma'am, that's a whole other case,
01:36that has nothing to do with this case.
01:38I want you to listen!
01:39Yes, ma'am.
01:40If you are made whole in the case against Mr. Smith,
01:44you will get the value of your bike,
01:47that's what you will get.
01:49Value of the damages, ma'am.
01:50For the damages to your bike, you will get that,
01:53so you'll be able to take that money,
01:55and have it fixed to your satisfaction someplace else.
01:58But I'm still $5,000 down, ma'am.
02:00I don't understand how you're $5,000 down.
02:02If Mr. Smith is giving you $5,000 to fix your bike,
02:07because that's what it costs to fix it,
02:09and you've already spent $5,000
02:12with somebody else to fix it.
02:14Right.
02:15I'm gonna have to take the money that I get from the court,
02:18and pay someone else to fix it again.
02:20Well, that's true, that's true.
02:22That's true.
02:23Well, I'm not whole, ma'am.
02:24You're not whole, that's true.
02:26You're right, you convinced me.
02:28I'm sorry, I was getting a little shoddy,
02:30I'm like, oh my God, here we go.
02:31No, no, no, you convinced me.
02:34So now we're on to step number two.
02:35You convinced me.
02:36Can I have a water, please?
02:37Big, big, yes.
02:40No, that was a good exchange.
02:43That was a good exchange, that's true.
02:44Okay, so now, let me see a picture
02:46of the bike that you gave to him.
02:48This is the original bike,
02:49the way it looked before the accident.
02:52This is the bike on the accident day.
02:54I'll see all of them.
03:06Oh, that bike's really messed up.
03:08Little bit.
03:08You really messed up the bike.
03:09Okay, now I'd like to see the bike
03:11that you picked up from him.
03:12Is it a photo?
03:13This is what the bike looks like here.
03:15Do you have pictures of the bike?
03:17Yeah, I did take a couple pictures
03:18of the bike when he had left.
03:20And I also have some photos of some of the stuff he did,
03:25the zip ties that had to be used
03:27to hold the bike together.
03:28I'd like to see them.
03:29Some of the wiring harnesses are all broken.
03:31How did you find him, Mr. Cano?
03:33I went to a bike event and I asked a friend,
03:36I asked a friend for help with the mechanic,
03:38and she had referred me to a gentleman,
03:40and the gentleman gave me his number.
03:41Heard.
03:42What is zip ties?
03:44You can see the wiring harness under the lights,
03:46they're just hanging there,
03:48and the black little zip ties
03:49are actually what's holding it up.
03:50Are you supposed to use zip ties in a bike?
03:52The aftermarket headlight assembly
03:54that he wanted to put in there,
03:55comes with a HID kit.
03:56It's a lighting system,
03:58and per their instructions,
04:01it's to use zip ties to hold the wiring together.
04:04Did you ask him to put other things,
04:06other aftermarket things in the-
04:07I told him to put- Shh, shh.
04:09Did you ask him to put any aftermarket things
04:11in the bike as long as he was fixing it?
04:13Headlights, yes ma'am.
04:14So the answer is yes.
04:15Yes ma'am.
04:16Headlights.
04:17The bike itself looks like this.
04:19This is after.
04:20That's after he fixed it, yes ma'am.
04:22That's after.
04:23That doesn't look bad to me.
04:23Those plastics on motorcycles,
04:25you can buy aftermarket plastics for very cheap.
04:28Anywhere from $600 to $1,000.
04:30The plastics on that bike,
04:31the set for the plastics on that bike
04:33is upwards of $2,000.
04:35It's a limited edition bike.
04:36To even get those plastics,
04:38you have to have a VIN number and a registration.
04:41When I spoke to him,
04:42the last conversation we had,
04:44which wasn't a very pleasant one,
04:46he sent me a,
04:47he video chatted me,
04:48and I saw the 93 wasn't there.
04:50I told him, those aren't original plastics.
04:52He said, yes they are.
04:53I wouldn't do that to you.
04:54And I said, what do you think I am?
04:55You think I'm stupid?
04:57You paid anywhere from $600 to $1,000 for those plastics.
05:00Those are aftermarket plastics.
05:06You brought a motorcycle to the defendant to fix.
05:09An accident mangled his Friar's possession.
05:12Oh, that bike's really messed up.
05:14Little bit.
05:14It really messed up the bike.
05:16Then,
05:17He wanted a cheaper price on the repairs.
05:19Personalities collide at the repair shop.
05:22He didn't do anything for me.
05:23He didn't save me no money,
05:24telling me all these lies,
05:25and I said, what do you think I am?
05:26You think I'm stupid?
05:28Are you supposed to use zip ties in a bike?
05:30Judge Judy.
05:32Mr. Cano, you brought a motorcycle to the defendant to fix.
05:35He said he would fix it.
05:37It needed some cosmetic work.
05:38Yes, ma'am.
05:39And he said he would fix the motorcycle.
05:41Ultimately, your bill would be about $5,000.
05:44And you agreed to that.
05:45And you gave him some money up front, $3,500,
05:48balance to be paid when the motorcycle was ready.
05:50According to what I read,
05:51you went to pick up the motorcycle,
05:52you looked at it,
05:53you weren't satisfied with the way it looked.
05:55You said the work was pretty shoddy.
05:57You wanted to take the motorcycle and not pay him.
06:00Police were called.
06:01According to you,
06:02which I'm not accepting is truthful,
06:04police said, pay him the money,
06:05take your motorcycle, and sue him,
06:07which is what you did.
06:08Were the police called to your shop?
06:09No, ma'am.
06:10Did they ever come to your shop?
06:11No, ma'am.
06:12How did this police story get in here?
06:14The reason I called the police
06:15is I didn't know what to do.
06:17I was not aware what I could and couldn't do.
06:20I thought that when you steal someone's money,
06:22that's illegal.
06:23And I thought what he was doing was illegal.
06:24Okay, so the police told you it was a...
06:26Right.
06:26Okay, I got it.
06:27Right.
06:28Okay, when did you purchase this bike?
06:29Oh, I wanna say October 2017.
06:32And when did you take it to Mr. Aiken to be fixed?
06:35I took the bike,
06:36he came to my house the 1st of October,
06:38and he picked up the bike from my house
06:39until October 2018, ma'am.
06:41So you rode the bike from 17 to 18?
06:44No, ma'am.
06:44I was in an accident in November.
06:46November of 2017?
06:48Yes, ma'am.
06:49You were in an accident with the bike?
06:50Yes, ma'am.
06:51Which rendered it inoperable?
06:52It was only cosmetic,
06:53and that case is still pending.
06:55What does that mean?
06:56That case, what does that mean?
06:58I can't really talk a lot about the case
07:00because I'm still in court for it
07:04with an attorney,
07:05with the other party in the accident.
07:07But I had an accident with a gentleman,
07:08and we're still fighting that case in court, ma'am.
07:10Who's suing whom?
07:12I'm suing the other gentleman, ma'am.
07:13What are you suing him for?
07:15Because he performed,
07:16I'm not allowed to say those,
07:18based on what my lawyer has informed me.
07:21Let me explain something to you.
07:23That's a civil case.
07:25I don't care, actually,
07:26what your lawyer said to you.
07:28I'm not trying a case twice, Mr. Cano.
07:31If what you're saying to me is
07:33you were in an accident with someone in 2017,
07:37and you are suing that person for the accident.
07:41For injuries and damages, yes, ma'am.
07:43For injuries and damage,
07:44when injuries and damage concern your motorcycle.
07:47Yes, ma'am.
07:50If you are successful in that action, Mr. Cano,
07:54you will be reimbursed for your motorcycle.
07:57If your motorcycle was damaged,
07:59substantially damaged,
08:00you're gonna be reimbursed for your motorcycle.
08:02Now, you wanna be reimbursed two times,
08:05once in that case, and once in this case?
08:08Negative, ma'am.
08:09If the accident happens,
08:10the person is supposed to reimburse me already.
08:12When I'm with this gentleman,
08:14I paid him for a service,
08:15he did not do the proper service.
08:17Yes, but you're gonna get the money back.
08:19Right, but.
08:20You're gonna get the money back.
08:21If you're successful, Mr. Cano,
08:23in your lawsuit that you have against Mr. Smith.
08:27Yes, ma'am.
08:28Then you're going to get probably all the money
08:30that you paid for your motorcycle,
08:31if you say that Mr. Smith was in the wrong.
08:34What I'm saying to you is you can't come here
08:35and say, I can't discuss it with you.
08:37So if you wanna go and chat with your lawyer,
08:39and say, listen, she's saying to me,
08:41I can't say to her, I don't wanna talk about it.
08:45I can absolutely talk to you about the motorcycle.
08:47I cannot talk to you about the details of the accident, ma'am.
08:52Now, as far as the accident is concerned,
08:54because I have money in the bank,
08:56and I decide to fix my bike,
08:58does not make a difference whether or not
09:00I win on the first case or not, ma'am.
09:02That means that you get paid twice.
09:04Negative, I was never paid.
09:05For the same bike.
09:06Negative, ma'am, I have money in the bank.
09:08Just because I have money in the bank,
09:09and I did the right thing with my finances,
09:13to me, I don't see how I'm getting paid twice, ma'am.
09:15If I had Mr. Aiken pay for your motorcycle,
09:17and Mr. Smith pay for your motorcycle,
09:19the other court awards you money for Mr. Smith,
09:22you get paid twice.
09:23And what I'm telling you is courts don't work that way.
09:26If I never took the bike to Mr. Aiken to be repaired,
09:29we wouldn't be in court.
09:30The money I would've used to repair my bike
09:33would've been the money that was awarded to me by the court.
09:35I would not have, it would not come out of my pocket.
09:37Correct.
09:38At this moment in time, I have paid him for a service
09:40out of my pocket.
09:41I have not received.
09:43Well, then you're premature, sir.
09:44He tells me, well, what do you want me to do?
09:51Did you want me to call Honda or call a dealership?
09:53I'm like, that's exactly what you're supposed to do.
09:56Like, are you serious?
09:57I don't understand this.
09:58Did you get other estimates to fix this bike?
10:01What I did, I'm sorry, ma'am.
10:02That's either a yes or a no.
10:05Did you get any other estimates to fix the bike?
10:08No, I did not, ma'am.
10:09What I do have estimates for is he gave me a receipt
10:13of only repairing three items.
10:15Now, listen to me carefully, sir.
10:17Yes, ma'am.
10:18You said in your complaint,
10:19the original estimate I got was $7,000.
10:22Oh, yes.
10:23It was parts and labor.
10:25That's what you say in your complaint.
10:26So when I asked you the question,
10:28did you get any other estimates, the answer was yes.
10:31Yes, ma'am.
10:32And the estimate that you got was $2,000 more
10:35than his estimate.
10:36Yes, ma'am.
10:37Did you have a written contract with him?
10:39No, ma'am.
10:40Because the bike looks okay.
10:41And I don't know the difference between plastic and resin
10:44and aftermarket.
10:45Those are the kinds of things, you're looking for things.
10:48Those are the kinds of things
10:49that you usually put in a contract.
10:50So this bike looks okay to me.
10:54And I assume it rides.
10:55Yes, it does, ma'am.
10:56Okay.
10:57And also, since you don't have a contract
10:59that specified what materials he was going to use,
11:02do you have any communication with him
11:05that suggests that he was to use certain kinds of material
11:09to fix the bike?
11:10Yes, ma'am.
11:11Great, I'd like to see it.
11:12In the beginning of him starting to work on the bike,
11:17I-
11:18Now he's got the bike already.
11:18Yes.
11:19I'm talking to you.
11:21Let's be very clear.
11:22Right.
11:23I kinda gotta get to it though, ma'am.
11:24What's up?
11:26I don't know what this is.
11:27That's why I was trying to explain it to you.
11:29Is this what he says he's going to do?
11:32With the exception of the aftermarket-
11:34This is what he said he was going to do?
11:36Yes, ma'am.
11:36So I want you to circle for me
11:39where a particular kind of plastic was going to be.
11:44He had gotten a crash estimate
11:46and he wanted a cheaper price on the repair.
11:49At which point he brought me a parts list.
11:51Okay, so these were the parts
11:54that were going to be supplied to you
11:56from the other place for $7,000.
11:58Yes, ma'am.
11:59For parts alone.
12:00You gave him that list and you said to him,
12:02can you match this?
12:04I wanted him to help me do it for cheaper.
12:06So when he came to the house,
12:09two of those parts he automatically identified
12:12didn't need to be replaced,
12:13which was the tank,
12:14which it's highlighted on this one for $1,100,
12:17and a radiator, which is for $900.
12:21So that takes you from $7,000 to $5,000 real quick.
12:24So he didn't do anything for me.
12:25He didn't save me no money.
12:26All he did was not replace two parts.
12:29Just a second.
12:30It's not that he didn't save you money, sir,
12:32because the first person that you went to
12:34was charging you for something that you didn't need.
12:37So he wasn't saving you anything
12:38because if you had gone with the first estimate
12:41that you got,
12:42you would have gotten a radiator
12:43and you would have gotten another part that you didn't need.
12:46So when he said to you, you don't need it,
12:47the bike is fine without it.
12:49And I assume the bike is fine without it
12:51because you are riding the bike.
12:52Yes, ma'am.
12:53So if you're riding the bike,
12:54he was correct that you didn't need those two parts
12:56because you didn't put them in, right?
12:58So he was correct.
12:59Okay.
13:00Just, so not okay.
13:02So this guy was trying to cheat you.
13:04Negative, ma'am.
13:05The radiator was bent.
13:07And when you're doing an insurance claim,
13:09insurance doesn't wanna pay anything more
13:11than what they have to.
13:13The tank cover is damaged.
13:14It's just not damaged to the point
13:16that it makes the bike unserviceable.
13:17Just a minute.
13:19But you're telling me that you took this
13:21for an insurance claim.
13:23Yes, ma'am, because I had an accident.
13:24Just a second.
13:25Did the other company have insurance?
13:27Yes, ma'am.
13:28That's why I'm going to court for, ma'am.
13:29And the other company made the assessment.
13:31They saw the estimate.
13:33They approved the estimate.
13:34You know the other party's insurance
13:35is not gonna approve an estimate
13:37on a part that doesn't need to be replaced.
13:38Just a second.
13:39I'm gonna get back to where I was before.
13:42Okay, ma'am.
13:44You brought him in an unusable bike.
13:46He returned to you a bike that you're riding.
13:48You paid him $5,000.
13:50You're not getting $5,000 back.
13:53Okay.
13:53If you don't like the work that he did,
13:55you're gonna get more money from Mr. Smith.
13:58Anyway, so if you wanna take his parts off
14:00that he put on and put in a different part
14:03that he put on, right now,
14:04who knows how long this lawsuit's gonna take.
14:07Meanwhile, when did you get the bike back from him?
14:09I don't know.
14:10I don't know.
14:10I don't know.
14:11Meanwhile, when did you get the bike back from him?
14:13February 5th, I think it was, of 2019.
14:16Okay.
14:17And since that time, you've been using it?
14:19Yes, ma'am.
14:20And then if you get more money for the bike
14:21and you wanna have more parts put on, that's fine.
14:23So if you're dissatisfied with the job that he did,
14:26and you, did he tell you he was dissatisfied?
14:28Absolutely.
14:29I didn't ask you anything.
14:30Did he tell you he was dissatisfied?
14:32He said he wasn't okay with the sticker discrepancy.
14:36Explain that to me.
14:37On the front mask is a sticker that says 93.
14:40Yes, he didn't get the bike fixed.
14:41I didn't get what I paid for.
14:43He didn't get the bike fixed.
14:45A difference on a sticker,
14:46and the OEM part number for that part itself,
14:49and I did call into the company with the VIN number,
14:53and that's the Honda CBR.
14:55What am I supposed to do?
14:56Am I supposed to call?
14:57Just a second.
14:58Let me ask you a question.
14:58That's not worth $5,000, sir.
15:00Ma'am, when you pay for a service.
15:03It's not gonna happen for you.
15:05It's not gonna happen for you.
15:06You're using the bike.
15:07It was diminished in a certain amount of value
15:10as soon as you had an accident with it,
15:11just like when you have a major accident in a car.
15:14You get a Carfax.
15:15It's got a diminished value.
15:16What I'm telling you is.
15:17When you get the car back,
15:18you get the car back with the proper parts.
15:20You don't get aftermarket parts.
15:22When you pay for,
15:23your aftermarket parts cost more on a more,
15:25so if you have a Mercedes.
15:26This is what you're writing.
15:26If you have a Mercedes, ma'am,
15:27if you have a Mercedes,
15:28and you get brakes put on it,
15:30and you get Mercedes brakes put on,
15:32let's just say the Mercedes brake,
15:34for hypothetical reasons,
15:35costs $500 to put them on, right?
15:37Now let's say you go,
15:38and you get aftermarket brakes put on.
15:40The aftermarket brakes cost $250,
15:42but they charge you $500 for the real parts.
15:46Is that fair?
15:47Is that right?
15:48No, because they're charging you for parts
15:49that are not what you're paying for.
15:51He charged me for parts that are not what I'm paying for.
15:55I paid for real, authentic parts.
15:58So my question to you.
15:59And he knows what he's doing.
16:00You're very well versed in motorcycling.
16:02Let me explain to you.
16:03Yes, ma'am.
16:04You're not getting all the money back that you paid him.
16:06Okay, I understand that, ma'am,
16:07but I have to disagree because there's no way
16:09that he should take my money and keep it
16:12when he didn't do what I paid him for.
16:13He broke contract.
16:14The contract was he was supposed to fix my bike
16:16for $5,000.
16:17And you've been driving it for just a second.
16:20Does it mean that you've been driving it since February?
16:22I'm saying to you,
16:23you got a product back.
16:24You are dissatisfied with it.
16:26The only issue is,
16:27how dissatisfied?
16:29And I'm telling you
16:30that I'm not giving you $5,000 worth of satisfaction
16:34because you're gonna drive this motorcycle
16:36exactly the way it is for the next three years
16:38until your lawsuit comes up.
16:40And then what you're probably gonna do
16:42is trade in this motorcycle and buy a new one.
16:44I'm really not understanding you.
16:46Okay.
16:47So you drive around on your bike
16:48and when you get the full value of your bike,
16:51because it's now been diminished,
16:53when you finish your lawsuit with Mr. Smith,
16:55buy a new bike.
16:56Because I'm not gonna argue with you anymore.
16:58I'm telling you,
16:59you have a bike that he worked on,
17:01that he bought parts on,
17:03and he's going to get paid for that.
17:05I want you to show me
17:06where you paid somebody to fix it
17:09because you're driving it.
17:10I'll show you, ma'am.
17:11Show me where you paid somebody to fix it.
17:15On this receipt right here,
17:16when I took it in to be re-evaluated.
17:19No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, re-evaluated.
17:21I don't wanna be re-evaluated.
17:21I'm going to explain to you, ma'am.
17:23No, no.
17:23I wanna see what you paid someone to fix it.
17:27It's right there, ma'am.
17:27Okay, let's see.
17:29I have $319.84.
17:31Now, now, now.
17:32In addition to the $5,000.
17:33Now, I keep telling you,
17:36that money's not coming back to you.
17:38Maybe Mr. Smith will pay you that money.
17:40Mr. Smith is not obligated to pay me that money.
17:42Just a second.
17:43He did work on your bike.
17:46He did do the right work, ma'am.
17:47We're done.
17:47Thank you.
17:48Wait for Mr. Smith.
17:49If I was your excuse, you may step out.
17:58Thank you.
17:59Thank you.
18:00Thank you.