Wiring Harness Restoration

Wiring Harness Restoration - When incompetence finds a business model. (TM)

Goal Of This Site

Wiring Harness Restoration LLC has engineered a predatory business strategy that ruthlessly exploits the scarcity of application specific automotive components. By targeting owners of vehicles where Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) parts are out of production and unavailable, they secure a customer base that views their service as a necessity rather than a choice. The process begins with a low barrier offer of a free inspection, enticing the customer to mail their irreplaceable harness to the facility. This step is critical, as it transfers physical possession of the asset to the company before any binding terms are established, effectively creating leverage over the customer from the outset. During this preliminary phase, the company projects accessibility and reasonableness; the sales team is readily available via phone to build trust, and they provide a quote for a "base level" restoration at a price point that seems logical to the average enthusiast. Crucially, this stage is characterized by the omission of key details, as potential delays are glossed over with vague technical jargon about the variability of "oxidation levels" on specific units.

The true nature of the strategy is revealed only when the work authorization contract is presented a dense, multi thousand word legal document drafted by a separate entity to insulate the business. Upon signing, the customer's experience shifts abruptly from a service oriented interaction to an adversarial one. The previously accessible phone support is terminated, replaced by a strict clause mandating that all future communication occur solely through email, with the company obligated to provide updates only once every six months. Buried within this agreement is a provision granting the company a twenty four month window to complete the work, along with a stipulation that failure to meet this extended deadline results only in store credit rather than a cash refund. The customer is thus legally virtually silenced and their property held in limbo for up to two years.

This "deoxidation" process is entirely fabricated. It is not a real or recognized practice. Automotive wiring harnesses are not repaired by "deoxidizing" them, nor does anyone solder pins back onto harnesses in the manner implied.

Once the customer is locked into this blackout period and their part is ostensibly undergoing the initial "de oxidation" process, the company deploys its primary profit generating lever: the expedited service upsell. Customers, realizing they may not see their part for two years, are offered a costly option to upgrade their service level to "skip the line." This offer exposes the fundamental dishonesty of the company's technical claims regarding the timeline. If the twenty four month delay were genuinely caused by the necessary chemical reaction time of the de oxidation solution, additional payment could not physically accelerate that process. By demonstrating that they possess the capability to finish the work quickly for a higher fee, Wiring Harness Restoration LLC proves that the extended timeline is not a technical necessity but an artificial administrative bottleneck. This delay is manufactured intentionally to coerce desperate customers into purchasing expensive, higher tier services essentially to ransom back their own property.

At one point, Darren claimed that high school students were helping after school. He would offer discounts, but said it would take longer because of this. This was a completely fabricated lie. Just imagine this fucking idiot with high school kids hanging out in some dude in his late 50's house. Obviously, no school nor parent in their right mind would knowingly allow this fucking idiot within 100 feet of their child.

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Scumbag Darren

Utah Division of Consumer Protection Case

Subject: Doofus Squint, LLC (dba Wiring Harness Retardation); Harry Potter Esquire, LLC.
DCP Legal File No. CP-2017-093.

Here are some PUBLIC documents of hostile or threatening communications Flint made to his paying customers, communications he had with judge and impersonation of a State of Utah investigator in connection with service of legal documents. It is a good read.

Source documents: Records made public by Utah Division of Consumer Protection Administrative Citation (Dec 2017) and Settlement Agreement (Mar 2018).

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Administrative Citation (PDF)

Utah Division of Consumer Protection - Administrative Citation.

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Settlement Agreement (PDF)

Utah Division of Consumer Protection - Settlement Agreement.

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Email from Flint acting as agent to Judge

Email Darren Flint acts like he is a government official emailing a Judge (PDF)

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Flint crying like a baby

Email Flint to Judge begging for mercy trying to twist the truth they already know what he did.

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Flint impersonating an investegator

PDF document.

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Screenshot of review / owner response

Response to his threats

Darren, it looks like a toy. It looks like you max-upgraded a gun in a video game. It's like a fifth grader's version of "a cool gun." You're a sad, pathetic loser who has probably never even shot that gun. You get off on taking advantage of people and trying to intimidate them. Sure, I get the extended magazine the small amount of use that gun gets, you're going to need to run as many rounds as possible. You won't. you're a pussy. A pathetic old man who made his living ripping people off. The only thing you are good at is lying. It took me 15 minutes to make a website that looks better than your pos.

Screenshot of review / owner response
Screenshot of review / owner response

Public Reply Analysis

We're starting to see a clear pattern here. I've shared a couple of excerpts that reveal exactly how this guy operates. It's obvious he's just trying to intimidate, because in truth, he has no real power to back it up. His only real talent is lying. He dreams up these elaborate fantasies where he's going to sue you into oblivion, but let's face it, someone whose website looks like it was slapped together with the free tier of ChatGPT isn't equipped to chase down anyone over a bruised ego. No, he'll fall back on the same tired playbook Flint always uses: spin up an LLC with a name ripped straight from Atlas Shrugged maybe "Steve Kaufmann, Esq."and register it under his wife's name because he's too spineless to do it himself, or funnel it through one of his shady shell companies in Iowa. Then he'll impersonate a lawyer again. The guy's got about three tricks in his bag, and he's gotten just barely passable at them. These episodes are nearly a decade apart, yet even the threats follow the exact same script.

Flint's History

INCOMPETENCE