Chronic Street Rods LLC

Chronic Street Rods LLC is located at 2020 Placentia Ave, Costa Mesa, CA. This business specializes in Auto Dealers.

Keep looking for a body shop. This isn't the answer. Chronic Street Rods wasn't even licensed with the bureau of automotive repair until I recently filed a complaint and they were forced to become a legit automotive repair shop in California. If anyone else has any issues with this shop past or present please contact them. I was offered a "great price" because I'm in the military and I had recently returned from a 7 month deployment to Afghanistan. The owner Bill Krause talked me into paying in full within the first week. I was told me my car was going to be out in 3-4 weeks....at about the 7TH MONTH I had no choice but to take my project out of his shop. The shop was unorganized, the management was horrible, the owner was higher than the empire state building 24/7, the quality of work was average if that and above all it was the most miserable experience I've ever had with a business. The owner kept coming up with excuses as to why my car wasn't finished. I asked him for a completion date on paper multiple times and he wouldn't give me one. He kept telling me it'll be finished soon or it'll be finished in two weeks, I promise and I would set up transportation to get my vehicle home and I would go there and he would have an excuse as to why he didn't get it finished. I talked with one of his employees and they said he would tell them to start working on my car right before I would show up to look at it and as soon as I would leave he would tell them to work on a different one. When I confronted the owner again about the issue I had with my car still not being finished and the fact that no work was being performed on it sometimes for 2-3 weeks at a time, he ripped his shirt off and tried fighting me....real professional for a business owner. Eventually when I took my car out of his shop I found out that there were a lot of issues with the "work" that was performed. He insisted on using only one coat of poly primer on the portion of the car he did get painted and that screwed me. The car has a bunch of pin holes... the doors do not fit on the car correctly, there isn't a gap and it can't be fixed by simply moving the fender forward because Bill glassed the side skirts directly to the fender without fitting the doors first(being a professional you'd think he would know to do this), so now I have to cut the side skirts and move the fenders forward so they have a gap. I'm going to just leave them cut so the gap runs all the way down the door/ fender and continues thru the side skirt like it should have been initially( that way if the fender needs to be replaced the whole side of the car doesn't need to be redone....again something you'd think a professional would do) . When I turn, one of my tires hits the side skirt. On the roof of the car there are a few places where you can see bare metal. I need to have my whole car repainted and some major work done to make the doors fit. Its a mess. I took Bill to small claims court to get my money back and he never even showed up. I'm not sure how a business owner who thinks they did me nothing but favors wouldn't have the time to stand up for themselves or their business in court?. Now he has a judgment against him... I know of at least 5 other people that aren't thrilled with chronic street rods. This guy/ shop needs to get its act together because word will eventually get out about the way it does business. This is the only business I've ever felt the need to write a negative review for. I feel bad for speaking negatively about an individual and his business, but honestly I don't want anyone to have to go through something even remotely similar to what I've went through with chronic street rods. I sincerely hope you don't let this shop take the fun out of your restoration. Take the time to find a better shop. This one will give you a "chronic" headache.

We are located in the heart of Southern California offering So Cal Classic Restorations, Overseas Purchases & Sales, Mod Builds, Rarity finds & Builds, as well as locating any part you might be having a problem finding. No job 2 BIG for us!
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Our experience in the industry extends into early childhood with EVERY one of our members in our operation. We carry our heart into work everyday...