Mr. Transmission Scammer and Con Artist ,Mike May, Columbus Georgia

Mr. May nearly gutted my truck out as it sat in his lot due to my estranged husband not paying the repair costs in November 2015.  I learned that my vehicle was in his lot in May 2016 and called him to negotiate paying the debt to retrieve my vehicle--as I am the owner of the vehicle.  Initially Mr. May argued that he has a corporate attorney and that I needed to speak with him for any type of resolve, yet there was no evidence of said attorney and so I had simply given up on the idea of retrieving my vehicle.  He called me back 2 weeks later for monetary gain and mentioned it was $4500 to retrieve the vehicle.  I mentioned that I took no part in the vehicle being stored there so he said he would "see what he can do".  He called me back the following day and went down to $2610.80.  I agreed to pay under the conditions that the vehicle was in good driving standard, as I live 2 hours north in McDonough Ga and that's a safety hazard if not.  He assured me that my vehicle was safe and ready to go. 

I commuted  with my fiance to pick up the vehicle and Mr. May wanted all of the money in cash, which was very strange to me.  I don't carry $2610.80 in my pocket on a daily basis.  Anyhow, his "secretary" or whomever he identifies her as gives us this plain warranty document wiht no itemized repair products that were used on the vehicle.  We definitely requested this descriptive paperwork prior to going down there and we are very business-oriented people.  When I was driving off the lot my SES light came on and I brought this to their attention in the shop and Mr. May had one of his workers to use the car diagnostic machine to access the coding read.  There was a code of an O2 sensor.  I mentioned why is that an issue since I paid so much money prior to pick up and he should have known any sort of issues and reported to me prior to driving off the lot.  Then Mr. May informed me that this issue was not a part of engine work that they did.  I simply prayed and drove home with issues making right turns, as my steering would nearly lock up when turning right, amongst issues with the tires while driving. 

Upon my getting the vehicle home is when I learned that whatever work that Mr. May has actually done was definitely not effective in getting this vehicle back up and running efficiently again.  Mr Mays blamed my estranged husband for nearly gutting out the truck, however that his highly not likely because I had seen the truck prior to him taking it to that shop in November 2015 and I had just purchased new tires for it one year earlier in Fayetteville Ga.  Not to mention someone had been driving my truck, as there were St. Patrick's Day necklaces on the rearview mirror--simply weird stuff.  My lights in the truck were dangling for dear life and my entire driver's side door was stolen and replaced with an older model door of the same color.  I had only learned this when I had attempted to obtain an emission's test and the conductor mentioned my VIN on the door panel was different from the dashboard.  I have NEVER switched out my door panel and it was in good operating condition.  This new door had MAJOR defects.  Also, my truck hitch was stolen, all 4 of my tires were definity and they were stolen as well.  My spare tire under the truck was stolen also, along with a host of other issues that I am noticing more and more as the months past.  This is truly ridiculous and this man should be in jail or prison for how he rips honest paing consumers off.