DA-Motorsport warning!!!!

[RenéBMW]

i've had my e36 m3 for 4 years now and i was getting used to the power, 317 bhp. so i opted for FI. after searching a bit i found the well known AA, PPF and also the well known" DA motorsport. the rwinturbo kit he offerde looked good on the pics so a contacted him about a lower price, as 11000 euro's is a lot of money...
i made a deal with Mert for 8500 euro in 3 terms, 500 first, then 4000, and later the other 4000. after the last payment that's when the **** started...
he send me an e-mail in wich he told me where i could buy the turbo chargers cheaper, so i asked him why. His answer; turbo's are not included in the kit for this price.
I told him that we agreed 8500 euro for the KIT. his answer; customer is always right, so he send me the turbo chargers, after he send me a big box with several small parts, gaskets and nuts and bolts, tubes and so on.
but no intercooler, inlet manifold or exhaust manifold's.
i send him a mail when those parts would arrive.
his answer; parts need to be fabricate, do you want the raceport BOV?
I said yes, payed him the extra cash for the raceport and he informed me that he would modify the inlet tubing for the bigger BOV.
several mails later (about 80, questioning about when the rest will arrive) i send him my original ECU for him to tune because he asked me to. send a second ECU because something went wrong with postal service.
week later recieved a mail that he recieved 2 ECU's. so i told him to keep one original and send it back, and tune the other one. and again asked when my LAST box would arrive.
Box would be send one week later. so 2 weeks later, still nothing, no answers on my mails because this joker goes on holliday every week.
finally recieved the "last" box, with a broken fan, 2 exhaust manifolds wich look like ****, a very very bad welded inlet manifold and a damaged intercooler wich leaks and my (he says...) tuned ECU ( the one wich i told him to keep original...).
still a lot of small parts where missing and also intercooler piping and BOV still not here, also the piggyback didn't arrive. so i send him some mails again, asking him to send me the manual by mail so i could see what was missing an tell him what i still needed, this took almost a month, for a manual... when reading the manual i found out half the kit wasnt here, and something else caught my eye; why doent this kit use the lambda sensors? because as the manual says, they have to be removed and not used... stange. i asked him some questions about it and again it took very long to get answers, wich dont sattisfy me.
but still i needed the intercooler piping, BOV, Piggyback and intercooler brackets, so asked him when they would arrive.
"next week" he told me.
soooow, last week i recieved a box, the finally "last" box, again, opened it, and found 2 tubes, with spider webs in it, lookked further thrue the box but found only paper, even a dutch newspaper!
but still no piggyback and intercooler brackets and al small parts i'm still missing.
i send hime some very angry e'mails this week but no answers any more, so i think i'm stucked with a shitty, half turbo system, wich has costed me incl shipping, about 9500 euro, in dollars much more and a very, very bad feeling that i got frauded by such an asswhole. makes me say, **** TURKEY!!! but its just Mert Dastan.
and i feel stupid that i didn't listen to people who told me to drop the Mert bastard and pay a bit more for a good working, nice finish SC or turbo kit from a company with a good service.
i feel soooo ****ed, just wanted to share my story with some one.
if somebody else reads this and has the same experience, please tell me and contact me, because me and my lawyer need a lot of evidence

o yeah, the Mert asswipe stole my other ECU as he dont want to send it back.

gues i stay to N/A for a while as Mert ripped me from a lot of money.

and if someone wants to buy the pieces i have, just bid and ask for pics.

greets, Rene

[HaroldC]

Sorry to hear man.

It doesn't surprise me though, given Mert's history.

[Red Baron]

Wow!!!
Merts at it again.
Hope you recover something, but it is going to be nothing to impossible.
Your lawyer is going to cost you more to achieve nothing.
Just pray and hope, he sends you the ecu and any other pending part to at least complete the poor quality turbo.

With ALL the REPUTABLE FI companies with working and proven kits, why in the hell you buy from a shaddy guy in Turkey and with his poor history here????
I mean, is not like you were not warned.
This was heading for disaster and it did.
Now, you basically have no recourse of action.

Coming here to vent, will do little for Mert's reputation or business (if he ever had either). He gets no love here and yet he continues to post here, because he has no shame or self respect.

[04JTM3]

All you had to do was read some of his posts and see that every single person on this forum did not like him and knew he was a shady character.

[nitroracing456]

Sorry to hear such a screwed up story but i wouldnt send that kind of money to anyone unless it's on a credit card.

Credit Mastercard FTMFW - you complain-credit card company gives you back you money and they fight to get money back and your safe.

future knowledge

[highboostingm3]

When was this? Sounds like very recent but he claims to have closed his shop long ago. WTF?

That really sucks. With your broken English you did well with your story though.

So what now? Did you sell any of the parts and get any money back?

Where are you located?

What turbos did he send you?

[MSpired]

How recent was this? I thought Mart was "a changed man" and "not in it for the money anymore"

Mert, you fuken prick, give this guy his money back and go fawk some chickens!

[RenéBMW]

Originally Posted by highboostingm3

When was this? Sounds like very recent but he claims to have closed his shop long ago. WTF?

That really sucks. With your broken English you did well with your story though.

So what now? Did you sell any of the parts and get any money back?

Where are you located?

What turbos did he send you?

turbo's are garret gt22, but not modified like mert says.
and about being warned, yes, your right. but there was 1 person who thought the kit was ok, just the person i spoke to, also one who could kill him, rijarob, should have listend... still cant believe i'm so stupid, but it has happend and i will make the best off it.
but i'm a person who believes that its not SOMEONE who fools you, but you let yourself GET fooled by someone, so my own stupid mistake.
i asked my lawyer and mert's company is still registerd. since when is his shop closed?
i sometimes go to Istanbul so next time i go there, because he will pay, one way or the other.

but ok, if you people can help me to make my own good working turbokit with what i have i will do just fine.
i was carmechanic so can do a lot myself, biggest problem is finding someone who can really tune a piggyback or even standalone the right way.

exhaustmanifolds will be used as ashtrays, they will do the job just fine, i think... i'll have some tubular made somewhere, maybe the same ass Svein with his m3 gt.
intercooler is welded but needs to be modified (in my opinion) because airflow is restricted.
for the rest i need to buy the V-port bov back from my friend.

but if someone has some ideas please let me know.

ciao!

[Red Baron]

Originally Posted by MSpired

How recent was this? I thought Mart was "a changed man" and "not in it for the money anymore"

Mert, you fuken prick, give this guy his money back and go fawk some chickens!

Why do you think Mert is so warped and mental???
He got that way from F'ing chickens and every once in a while, some poor soul that doesn't listen.

[RenéBMW]

Originally Posted by MSpired

How recent was this? I thought Mart was "a changed man" and "not in it for the money anymore"

Mert, you fuken prick, give this guy his money back and go fawk some chickens!

this is very recent, i'm stil waiting for the last box, and my ecu. it started almost a year ago but offcourse didn't want to believe it and kept hope.