WOW second alternator died!

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

your being very over dramatic.....i actually dont believe a thing your saying. What monster system do you have that your killing 3 alts in 4 months?

being over dramatic about someone robbing me? perhaps. but when it happens to you see if it doesent strike a nerve...

that's the point, he wasn't running 20kw dailly, and alt after alt kept crapping out.
Hoss is a very credible person, I HIGHLY doubt he made all this up for attention.

thanks for that back up. and no, i wasnt running a killer system, i was running a single Visonik V900HC, not a small amp, but not some killer. a 240 amp alt should have been plenty for it. that is, if that alt had put out that much current...

the point is rather then talking about how it went down, hoss is spending all his post *****ing and moaning about how he was ripped off, not pointing out any facts on the matter, just whining.
What did he lie about?

How did the scam go down?

How did you aquire your alternator?

if i owned a business and someone was an *** i would refuse then service as well, thats your right as an american. Unlike Steve and them that you guys think have a connection with him, i dont even run Iraggi alts, but i still dont really see this whole claim on him being a scammer/thief.

you want facts, you could have searched, i have posted on here several times before exactly what went down. but ill play it all again for you...

i ordered the alt from dominick, paid about $400 for the "240 amp" alt. i recieved the alternator about 5 weeks after i mailed him my money, kind of a lengthy amount of time i thought. i put it on my car, the alt was DOA. didnt do anything. right out of the box, completely dead, not putting out any current. i put the stock alt back on (changing the alt on my car was about an hour and a half process by the way) and it worked fine. i mailed the alt back to dom, he "fixed" it, and mailed it back. he had it for about a week and a half for his repair, it wasnt very quick turn around. but i got the alternator back, put it back on my car, and this time it worked. it was very weak, had more dimmage and voltage drop than with my stock alt. i asked dom about it, he told me to keep an eye on it for a little while. i did, and within a couple of weeks the alternator died again. was driving my car, my headlights kept getting dimmer and dimmer, and voltage was getting lower and lower. pulled over, put the clamp on it, and sure enough, nothing coming out of the alternator. i took it off, again, mailed it back to dom. he recieved the alternator, did his fix again, and mailed it back, which again took a few weeks. when i got the alt back, i put it back on and sure enough, just took a few more weeks for it to die again. i called dominick, this time i was pretty pissed, i think you can understand why... he attempted to alleviate the situation, by offering me a large case GM 200 amp alt for free. i settled on this, thinking hey, i can at least sell the GM and compensate for some of my losses. after he recieved the alt for the third time, he fixed it again, and sent me an email saying that he had done so and had mailed it back. i should also add in that all communication was done through email, as he would never answer his phone for me, or return phone calls. whenever i called him he would email me back. too chicken shit to talk on the phone. after he emailed me and said he had mailed the alt back, i emailed him back asking if he mailed the GM alt with it. he pretended like he knew nothing about it. then he completely denied it when i showed him HIS email showing what he had said. he claimed he never said anything like that, and that i was making it up. even though i had documented proof of what he had said.

and steve, i dont know you, and not to sound like an ***, but i really dont care if you believe anything im saying. i know you are a big competitor, and im sure that dominick treats you very differently than he does most. but i know of several other competitors that he has ripped off as well. ask sean belanger about him. ask alma about him... ask any of the others on this forum who have had bad experiences with him, and that list is quite lengthy... perhaps im more vocal about than others are, but i really would prefer others didnt have to deal with his BS.

and $400 for the alternator i got was a complete rip off... i recently purchased two alts from a local shop that are doing a combined total of 475 amps, and i paid $380 for the pair... and i have had no problem at all out of them running over 5000 watts... kinda makes no sense why anyone would prefer to spend more money on an alternator from dominick that is going to do less than others will...

 

[jeepintn 10+ year member]

well, i have had my experiences with iraggi alts as well, but mine have been good. im not saying anyone in this thread is lieing or not, but all of my experiences have been very good. i ordered my 240 alt from dom last spring, and it took abuot a week and a half for him to make it. being that he only lives about 30 minutes from me, he said it would be silly to pay shipping charges when i could just go down and pick it up, so i did. well, the 240 i ordered ended up doing about 300amps at 1800 rpm, but for some reason, the idle amps were extremely low, would only charge the batt to about 12.5 at idle, when my stock alt would show 13.9-14.1 at idle. i called dom about it, and he told me that my idle rpms(about 550) was really low, and that we had a few possible solutions to fix it. i could either get my rpms raised by reprogramming my computer in my truck, he could machine me a smalled underdrive pulley, or i could take it back to him and he would bring up the idle output, but doing that would lower the peak output just a little. well, the next weekend i was going down to showfest, in greenville mississippi, and i decided i would wait until after the show to do the fix. while i was at the show, about 6 hours from home, in the middle of no where(exactly where greenville is, haha), the alt died on me(about 3 months after getting it), and no auto parts store in the fuggin state it seemed like had an alt to fit my truck. well, luckily enough my roommates dads lived about an hour from where we were, and he came and got us, and let us use one of his vehicles to drive back to nashville, and we just left mine there. i brought the alt back with me, dom fixed it in one day, no questions asked, even though it was beyond his warrantied timeframe. i took it back with me to retrieve my truck the next weekend, put it in, and have never had a problem since. everytime i have had a question, he has always answered the phone, and been quick to reply to emails when i have done that. in short, i wouldnt hesitate a minute to do business with dom again, or recommend him to someone else for the HO alt needs. i know most of this was pointless, but how often do i get to tell my stuck in the middle of no where story on the forums? haha

 

[knukonceptz 10+ year member]

Hoss - what make/model/engine vehicle do you have? From what I have seen between EA and Dom is that maybe they are pushing the limits too far. Taking a 90A unit and trying to get too much out of the same size case is probably killing reliability espicially when the rectifiers of some models might not be made to handle the extra output. Just because you can have a rotor/stator wound to provide 300A does not mean the other components can accept this.

I do not know the specifics of each case when people have issues, but if a company is to sell and make claim of an item, they should provide reliable service to back that item up or just not provide it. The idea in business is to make a profit, selling an item that has a high return rate is a quick way out of business since it will eat up any possible profits.

Now if it the units you are getting are a CS130 or 144 with brackets and not direct bolt on to replace an import unit, I could see installation error cause some possible issues.

To have DOA units does not make any sense. These items though are not the most forgiving, like an amp if installed or connected wrong, the magic smoke comes out real quick.

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

the vehicle was a ford taurus, with the duratec motor (dual overhead cam). and it was a direct replacement part, bolted into factory position, was identical.

and i agree with you that if someone is going to make a claim of what a product can do. which was one of my biggest problems with the alt, when it did work... it never did near what it was claimed to do.

 

[Iraggi Alt's 10+ year member]

Ok....here we go.............AGAIN...

I have already spent 2 hours of my morning looking at old emails from Hollis Taylor "HOSS" Just to see exactly what happened. So this post may be short and not in very good order.

Here are the facts....

1. Hollis sent payment on the 11th of August. I have email with him stating such. That means we receivced the payment on the 13th. He recieved his alternator on the 26th of August. Thats only 9 business days from when we received his payment to the date he received his alternator. NOT 5 weeks like he stated. (First overexaggeration, actually its a lie, but we will just call it an exaggeration today.)

2. Hollis sent alternator back within a couple of weeks because the alternator was DOA. When we got the alternator back and did some more research we found out that Ford used a different regulator in only his model of car. Thats the reason for the alternator not working out of the box. This is extremely rare because we test every alternator prior to shipment.

The alt was shipped back to him on September 28th. Still only 4 weeks from the first time he received the alternator to the next time he got it back. There is almost a week of shipping time included in that. He actually said "Thanks for the quick return". How ironic...... (Another overexaggeration)

3. We didnt hear from Hollis for 4 months. (Feb 22nd of 05) He said the alt went out. He shipped it back (March 10th of 05) We repaired and shipped back to him (March 17th of 05) ONLY 7 days and it was back out to him. I cant see what he is complaining about. I guess he just likes to overexaggerate.

The alternator rotor had a wire broke off the slipring. There was also a massive amount of corrosion all over the alternator. I asked him about that and he said they salt the roads alot. I have NEVER seen that kind of corrosion on the inside of an alternator ever. Maybe the corrosion weakened the soldered connection and from the centrifugal force of the rotor it came loose. Not exactly sure. It was a long time ago.

4. I emailed him about the correspondence about a free large case gm. He said he didnt have any emails about it. I never heard from him again. How can I fix something I dont know about.

Like I said, all this information comes from previous emails.

This is the bad thing about the internet......its a place for everyone to run their mouth and hide behind a keyboard.

Hopefully this doesnt get deleted. I think its good for a human being to be able to defend theirselves when someone makes derrogatory comments about them.

Thanks, Dominick Iraggi

 

[90accordman 5,000+ posts]

seems like a lot more realistic response

 

[Iraggi Alt's 10+ year member]

being over dramatic about someone robbing me? perhaps. but when it happens to you see if it doesent strike a nerve...

Robbed?? Your crazy! We did everything we were supposed to do.

you want facts, you could have searched, i have posted on here several times before exactly what went down. but ill play it all again for you...

i ordered the alt from dominick, paid about $400 for the "240 amp" alt. i recieved the alternator about 5 weeks after i mailed him my money, kind of a lengthy amount of time i thought.

First lie, its was more like 9 days....including shipping.

i put it on my car, the alt was DOA. didnt do anything. right out of the box, completely dead, not putting out any current.

Correct. The alternator would have not worked on your car cause it had the wrong regulator in it. We apologize.

i put the stock alt back on (changing the alt on my car was about an hour and a half process by the way) and it worked fine. i mailed the alt back to dom, he "fixed" it, and mailed it back. he had it for about a week and a half for his repair, it wasnt very quick turn around.

Second lie, you actually thanked me in an email about the quick turn-around time.

but i got the alternator back, put it back on my car, and this time it worked. it was very weak, had more dimmage and voltage drop than with my stock alt. i asked dom about it, he told me to keep an eye on it for a little while. i did, and within a couple of weeks the alternator died again. was driving my car, my headlights kept getting dimmer and dimmer, and voltage was getting lower and lower. pulled over, put the clamp on it, and sure enough, nothing coming out of the alternator. i took it off, again, mailed it back to dom.

This must have been when the rotor went bad from the corrossion.

he recieved the alternator, did his fix again, and mailed it back, which again took a few weeks.

Third lie, it only took 7 days total for you to get it back.

when i got the alt back, i put it back on and sure enough, just took a few more weeks for it to die again. i called dominick, this time i was pretty pissed, i think you can understand why... he attempted to alleviate the situation, by offering me a large case GM 200 amp alt for free. i settled on this, thinking hey, i can at least sell the GM and compensate for some of my losses. after he recieved the alt for the third time, he fixed it again, and sent me an email saying that he had done so and had mailed it back.

You never sent it back for repair. No emails or shipping information from UPS. Also no emails about the Large Case GM. Oh ya, 4th lie. I may have emailed and offered the Large Case Gm but he coulnt provide any proof because I didnt recall. Maybe I should have sent it anyway. ???

i should also add in that all communication was done through email, as he would never answer his phone for me, or return phone calls. whenever i called him he would email me back. too chicken shit to talk on the phone. after he emailed me and said he had mailed the alt back, i emailed him back asking if he mailed the GM alt with it. he pretended like he knew nothing about it. then he completely denied it when i showed him HIS email showing what he had said.

Yet another lie, You NEVER showed me an email about the Large Case GM......

he claimed he never said anything like that, and that i was making it up. even though i had documented proof of what he had said.

Let me see the email....

and steve, i dont know you, and not to sound like an ***, but i really dont care if you believe anything im saying. i know you are a big competitor, and im sure that dominick treats you very differently than he does most.

We treat Steve Meade just like anyone else. Thats actually the reason he has run and sold our alternators for 4-5 years. He liked the way we did business from day one. Even before I even knew who the hell Steve Meade was.

but i know of several other competitors that he has ripped off as well. ask sean belanger about him. ask alma about him... ask any of the others on this forum who have had bad experiences with him, and that list is quite lengthy... perhaps im more vocal about than others are, but i really would prefer others didnt have to deal with his BS.

and $400 for the alternator i got was a complete rip off... i recently purchased two alts from a local shop that are doing a combined total of 475 amps, and i paid $380 for the pair... and i have had no problem at all out of them running over 5000 watts...

I call bull$hit on that one. Post some pics of your two alternators installed.

kinda makes no sense why anyone would prefer to spend more money on an alternator from dominick that is going to do less than others will...

 

[gl0ck 10+ year member]

why is he still unhappy with it then?

 

[Iraggi Alt's 10+ year member]

I dont know. You tell me.

I would still fix the alt if he sent it back free of charge.....even tho he being such a tool..

 

[RaiN 10+ year member]

I'm About to purchase a alt from Dom in the near future. Its sad to see one person trying to bash someone over the net for trying to make a business work. Keep your head up Dom, I heard great things about your product so keep up the good work!

John

 

[Iraggi Alt's 10+ year member]

I'm About to purchase a alt from Dom in the near future. Its sad to see one person trying to bash someone over the net for trying to make a business work. Keep your head up Dom, I heard great things about your product so keep up the good work!
John

I appreciate it. It really doesnt bother me anymore when I see this going on in the forums. I used to take it to heart and it really would bother me when your doing all you can do to make someone happy and you still get the brown end of the stick. Its usually related to people that know just enough to get theirselves in trouble. They think there is no way they did something wrong because they know everything. Im not reffering to Hoss in anyway but that is usually how it goes for most.

Dom

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

why is he still unhappy with it then?

because the alternator never even did what it was supposed to... never even came close... the last time i got it back i never even bothered to install it. the stock ford alternator was more powerful than the one dom built. and also because of the lack of communication. dom may still have some of the original emails, i dont have them, got rid of them all quite some time ago. but he probably doesent have any of the several phone calls i made that were never answered, and the messages i left that went unreturned.

 

[hoss 5,000+ posts]

also, i will apologize if it looked like i was lying beforehand. i dont have the emails anymore, and wasnt totally sure of the dates as it was quite some time ago. some of it may have been embelished a little, but with just a little bit of researching on here, i have found the old posts that chronicle all of this.

it shows my frustration, my confusion where dom wouldnt talk to me at all, wouldnt update me on where my money was (even though he had it, was just avoiding me). it follows all of that story, probably better than my current recolection of it. so here it is, you can read it, and you can see exactly what happened, and this is more accurate than what i posted previously, as it was fresher on my mind.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=67274

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87515

so bottom line from my end, i was VERY dissatisfied with dominicks behavior, his communication, his excuses, as well as being extremely dissatisfied with the product. so much though that it has been sitting in the same shipping box i recieved it in for years. re-installing it offered me no gain as i am just as sure it still would not put out the power it was supposed to, and i was still weary of its longevity.

 

[jeepintn 10+ year member]

because the alternator never even did what it was supposed to... never even came close... the last time i got it back i never even bothered to install it. the stock ford alternator was more powerful than the one dom built. and also because of the lack of communication. dom may still have some of the original emails, i dont have them, got rid of them all quite some time ago. but he probably doesent have any of the several phone calls i made that were never answered, and the messages i left that went unreturned.

my alt does what it is supposed to and a few more amps //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[Iraggi Alt's 10+ year member]

I'll tell ya what.......I will swap it out for you if you find someone that is needing to buy an alternator. If their car is different from yours, I will swap it out for an alt for their car. This way you can get your money back and hopefully stop all the bickering.

You will be able to sell the alternator as new since we are willing to swap it out.

Dominick