100% Stay Away from ZNM Performance (Matt Malave and Elyse Cruz).I opted ZNM to do my Pure Stage 2 turbo install and supporting modifications. My car was in optimal 100% working condition and i was doing this build/service as preemptive maintenance and for fun as my car was still on stock turbos. I dropped my car off 11/4/2017 Shortly after i dropped my car off to ZNM, i got a call stating my cylinder head is no good bc the injector bored through, it was not seated properly. Matt put me in a situation where i had no choice to buy a new "used" cylinder head for $2300, stating that since he already pulled the injector therefore i was at a point of no return and putting it back wasn't an option. I agreed and let him continue the build. It took over 2 months for him to tell me it finally arrived and it was off to to be cleaned.
From then on it was a waiting game month by month, excuse after excuse after excuse ensued....every single day/week i would ask for an update and every single time i was given an excuse: boost leak, turbo seals bad (on a brand new turbo), oil leak, weather, missed your call, sent your turbo to get it rebuilt (without even asking me), outlet broke 3 times, ordered again 3 times, ECU problems, battery cable problems, DSC problems, potholes, blower motor. LITERALLY every excuse was given to me and naturally enough was enough....I would ask for receipts, work orders, 3rd party work orders, and any of the work they claimed that they have done, Matt always said he would send it right after we talked. Not a single document was ever shown to me to this day. I gave it to his lies thinking, my car is at 115k, this could all be a coincidence.
Thankfully it was brought to my attention that other people have been having issues with ZNM in terms of them stealing parts from your car and ZNM lying to their customers and not completing any work. Once i saw this thread, i immediately was wary and started questioning Matt about every single facet of my build. He ASSURED ME everything was being completed as planned and my car was drive-able and he had been working tirelessly on it day and night.
Still nothing made sense.I went to pick up my car 12/7/2018 and i am absolutely in disbelief. All i can say is WOW..... Over a years time, NOTHING, i repeat, NOTHING was completed on my car. I gave ZNM over $10000 in parts and labor and ABSOLUTELY ZERO WORK WAS COMPLETED and ZERO parts that i ordered were given to me; meaning he took my money and let my car rot in his lot. I confronted Matt the the same day and he assured me that Pure Stage 2 turbos were installed, and admitted he could not confirm nor deny that the cylinder head was changed, "i'm not sure what the mechanic did or did not do to your car." I had my car towed directly to a secondary shop to be inspected the same day and they confirmed no pure stage 2 turbos were on the car, my cylinder head was still stock and none of the parts i ordered through him were installed, nor were they given to me when i went to take my car away from the shop.
-ZNM scammed me into "buying" a cylinder head
-He replaced my turbos with some unknown mileage turbo; i had the shop take photos with a micro cam and they confirmed that the turbos are rebuilt stock or similar turbos. NOT the Pure Stage 2 DDs that i paid for
-Car battery was also all melted to the point where it melted through the entire IBS unit bc it was never coded/registered, and it sat overcharging for an entire year (which in turn ruined my alternator)
-Not one gasket changed: oil pan, ofhg, oil cooler, valve cover gasket; no ignition service was completed, my car came back empty of all fluids, leaking oil out of ofhg, oil cooler, cracked valve cover, valve cover gasket; flat tire, out of alignment, new dents, paint was atrocious, like it sat in a yard for a whole year.
I paid my secondary shop over $2k in parts/labor to get my car running and to inspect the damage that was done.
Matt Malave and Elyse Cruz pretended to cooperate with me in regards to getting my money back, nor giving me the parts for which i paid for. As of 1/30/2019, i have yet to receive my refund from ZNM. Ive been asking every single day. Initially Matt said he started a refund...after 10+ days of processing, it never came through and for some reason Matt decided to cancel it (if he even initiated it in the first place). I then mentioned paypal/cash refund. He supposedly initiated it but for some reason, his account was "suspended." So to this day, no money has been returned, no parts that i paid for were given to me and my car has the same parts as the day i dropped it off, except everything is falling apart because it was neglected in an open lot for an entire year, rotting away in the 4 seasons of the Northeast.
Do not buy into their small talk, they will absolutely tell you what you want to hear. Please google ZNM and you will see what everyone else is saying and the real truth behind ZNM. read more