INDIANAPOLIS -- A former employee of an Indianapolis auto repair shop says when work did get done at Mechanically Inclined, it took longer than it should.
After RTV6 ran a story about Angela Robbins' trouble getting her daughter's car back from Mechanically Inclined, other viewers and readers have reached out, looking for their cars that Richard "Ted" Franklin was supposed to fix.
“I said, ‘We’re going there because we can trust these people,’” Robbins said. “Famous last words, huh?”
Robbins says her daughter received text messages from the owner of the shop repeatedly saying the repairs were nearly complete. One of those texts, from Nov. 10, promised the car would be ready the next day.
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Travis Harmon, a former employee of Mechanically Inclined, said work shouldn't take as long as it did.
"Customers were coming up here every day asking about their car and he still hasn't touched them or anything like that," Harmon said. "Intake gaskets should take maybe two hours at the most and he's taking weeks at a time."
There are two civil court cases pending against Mechanically Inclined.
Franklin is temporarily working at a body shop. The body shop owner said Franklin asked to store a few cars on the property for a week while he moved locations. A couple weeks have gone by, and there are still 15 or 20 cars on the lot.
Needing a radiator, water pump and timing chain, Robbins and her daughter got their car back Monday, after it spent five weeks in Franklin's possession.
Watch RTV6's conversation with Franklin in the video player above.
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