Glamis 911

[Snappy]

I used Glamis Rescue but for a trailer repair, not a recovery.  Found a broken spring hangar on my flatbed while in Glamis.  We had a welder in our group but I was being lazy and figured I'd try these guys because I like to support local businesses, especially one that could save my azz someday.  This should have been a 1 hour job and that's being very very generous.  Just weld the hangar back to the frame is all I asked for.  30 minutes after they started grinding they called me over to look at the hangar and the bolt hole was ovaled out.  They said they had flat stock on hand and could make a new hangar and weld it on.  I said ok, it's worth doing correctly.  2 and a half hours later they were done.  Whatever, it's fixed.  I asked how much and he says $300 muther effing dollars.  WTF?  Paid it and haven't been back since.  Welds were sh!t too.  I took the trailer to my regular repair shop and had them go over everything.

A buddy broke the air bag pivot on the frame of his Funco.  He was camped at Cement Flats and drove it to them for a repair.  No idea what they charged or how long it took.  When they were finished he drove it back to camp and it broke off the frame.  He loaded it up and took it to Joe Fab.  They spent a lot of time grinding off the sh!tty welds and fixing it correctly.  Harvey posted it on his IG.

Reputation means a lot in any business and you can only screw over so many people before word gets around.  Especially true for the small off-roading community.

So true!!! The dude at Glamis Rescue is a complete rip off. When I had my can-am, I broke a 5/8 x 3 bolt. I went to him and got one. He charged me 18.00 for the bolt. I asked him if I got a jar of vasoline with that, and he says... Well no, but I saved your weekend. Ill drive to town or Yuma before I'd buy anything from him again!!

 

[Sand Shark]

So true!!! The dude at Glamis Rescue is a complete rip off. When I had my can-am, I broke a 5/8 x 3 bolt. I went to him and got one. He charged me 18.00 for the bolt. I asked him if I got a jar of vasoline with that, and he says... Well no, but I saved your weekend. Ill drive to town or Yuma before I'd buy anything from him again!!

Joe Fab has an assortment of bolts and his prices are decent.  Plus it is always entertaining talking to him.  For UTV stuff - Coyne Motorsports in El Centro stocks a ton of parts and go above and beyond to get you up and running.  Had to make a few trips there this past season.  Their service dept is really good. 

 

[ChasingSand]

So true!!! The dude at Glamis Rescue is a complete rip off. When I had my can-am, I broke a 5/8 x 3 bolt. I went to him and got one. He charged me 18.00 for the bolt. I asked him if I got a jar of vasoline with that, and he says... Well no, but I saved your weekend. Ill drive to town or Yuma before I'd buy anything from him again!!

Same issue with him as well! Needed two small half inch bolts and he charged me 25 bucks with Nylocks. Rather drive up to Joe Fab than dealing with Glamis Rescue.

 

[Sand Shark]

I paid the $300 subscription to Glamis911 at the beginning of the season.  Figured it was cheap insurance against a huge tow bill if I broke down.  I am pretty good at doing maintenance, and also at getting stuff out of the dunes, but figured it would be good to have in case some stupid thing broke that was not fixable or if I wadded the car up really bad.  I had told my group that I do not tow people out unless they want to pay for a trans bill in the off season, and I do not expect my group to tow me out either.

Second to the last trip of the season in April I start feeling the steering getting heavy and then smell burning rubber.  Figured it was the serpentine belt and a stuck tensioner.  Turns out it was the harmonic balancer slipped the rubber and was burning and spitting rubber.  Diagnosed the issue and decided I was going to test out the towing service.  I called the number for Glamis911 and despite having only 1 bar on the phone got through.  Took several dropped calls to get my issue explained to them and where I was located.  I was told I had to use some stupid app to request a tow.  Totally unacceptable as I had basically no service where I was.  Finally convinced them to let me talk to someone else and they agreed to let me bypass the app.  They called back and told me it would be at least 4 hours before they got there as they were on a call in Ocotillo and did not have a unit available until that was finished.

At this point 2 hours had already passed so I decided to try to start the car hoping the balancer had cooled enough to keep turning my serpentine belt.  I seemed to work, so I drove straight over to wash road keeping turning to a minimum.  Called and canceled the tow when I hit wash road as that was where they were going to tow me anyway.

I will probably buy it again this year, but they need to ditch the stupid app, and have coverage for the season like it says, not just 3 months.

Living dangerously!!!  LOL!   

The nice thing with UTVs if you have to tow someone the worst you will do is smoke a belt. 

 

[parker@gearone]

Have watched Joe Fab fix the other guys work. I am not trying to put down anybody or there business, but in glamis Joe is the only guy I would go spend money with to fix my car or trailer.

 

[77charger]

Had joe fab do a fix on a spring plate a while backSpent some money but he didnt just doa temporary fix he fixed it for good and left  a nice tig weld bead.He was busy the day before as it was getting closer to 4 he told me bring it by first thing in morning took care of it asap.

 

[L.R.S.]

So Glamis Rescue across from Sweet Marie's is not the same business as Glamis 911? 

 

[kazuaki]

So Glamis Rescue across from Sweet Marie's is not the same business as Glamis 911? 

From what I can tell Glamis911 is the same as Glamis Recovery. Those are the guys with the Ford trucks on tracks that got stuck out in the dunes a few times this season   Glamis Rescue is the repair place by Sweet Marie's with the little red snowcat. Based on the stories here, it sounds like both kinda suck  :classic_biggrin:

 

[HozayKwarvo]

Two different businesses. Glamis Rescue (and Glamis Grub - same same) is off of Gecko next to Sweet Marie's. Glamis Recovery is the Glamis911 tracked trucks and recovery insurance package that thread was about, usually parked at vendor flats. They are not the same company or people.

 

[Kraut_n_Rice]

I worked with Joe for a season in G.  Nothing we did left that shop cobbled together.

Well, unless you brought in a pile of bent/broken chit that needed to stick together just long enough to get you back to your trailer...