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Luke Algar folded his company, claiming monies owed, where the overwhelming majority of money owed was to himself and his father Nick Algar.
The company was folded, with a little over £10,000 in (questionable) outstanding bills owed to it. However, on the books, they claimed £100,000 owed to themselves.
That figure included :-
£51,715.68 to Nick Algar.
£42,813.00 to Luke Algar.
£5,383.98 to Nick Algar's property company.
Luke Algar stole parts from a build that he had charged for
As part of a build, specific components (e.g. anti-roll bars) were charged for, but when the build was released from the liquidators, those parts were not present despite having been charged for and paid in full.
Luke Algar charged £2,200 in labour to 'make' carbon panels, that were already made
Having been supplied carbon panels and pre-molded sections for a Westfield build, Luke charged a further £2,200 in labour to 'make' them. At most, this involved trimming edges, yet the labour cost was for a week and half's work!
Luke Algar charged £3,300 in labour to fit oil and brake lines for a car, didn't complete the work
Having charged £3,300 in labour (not components, purely labour) for fitting oil and brake lines, Luke Algar didn't finish the job (both around 70% completed), with some of the lines actually fraying and falling apart before even being used.
The work was so poor, that every line needed to be pressure tested to check which were suitable for use.
Luke Algar charged £900 to 'fit' bodywork, the bodywork was simply placed on the car
Luke Algar charged £900 to 'fit' bodywork to a Westfield. The bodywork was not fitted, it was simply laid onto the car for photos to be taken. No fixings, no nosecone fitment, no cycle wings - simply just placed on the car for staged photos.
While promising a car build within a year, less than one day's work was done on it in that year.
What Playskool and Luke Algar told you to your face, never matched what was actually happening in the real world. While promising a car would be finished in a year and that is was being focussed and worked on, it turned out less than one day of work was done on it in an entire year.
Luke Algar charged £2,750 for 'drawings', which were never provided
Luke Algar charged £2,750 for 'drawings'. Drawings which were never provided despite being charged for and paid.
Luke Algar owes previous employees money/wages, even before folding his company.
Ex-employees of Playskool Motorsport have been left with outstanding monies owed, while Luke continued to run the company and take money from clients.
Luke Algar stated the he paid no rent on his premises, yet, a rent claim appeared in the books when the company folded – to his father Nick Algar.
In discussions about the safety and liquidity of the business, Luke had stated that he pays no rent and so his outgoings were minimal and safe. Yet, when the business folded, a charge for £5,383.98 appeared on the books to be settled – to his father Nick Algar's rental company, along with another charge of £51,715.68 directly to his father..
Nick Algar has aggressively threatened websites that post facts about Luke Algar and Playskool Motorsport.
Through fear and intimidation, Nick Algar has had threads detailing Luke Algar and Playskool Motorsport’s ineptness and corruption removed from the web. Specific examples being the Westfield Sportscar Club and Pistonheads.com.
A project car that Playskool 'completed' had work so poor, that the new owner threatened legal action.
After completing work on a project car, the new owner found that the work was so poor, of such a low standard that they had to threaten court action in order to get recompense.
The original project owner left Westfields for good after the experience.
Luke Algar charged £4,450 for Westfield chassis work that was so poor, the chassis was deemed ‘a loss’ by two independent assessments
After carrying out a claimed 89 of hours work strengthening a Westfield chassis, two independent assessors viewed the work and both agreed that the work was so poor, the chassis could not be used. He had effectively turned a perfectly good chassis into scrap through his inept work and charged over £10,000 in total for the courtesy of doing so.
Playskool Motorsport, despite promises, had straight-forward builds that took over 4 years and were still not complete
The company became a graveyard of car builds. Builds that were promised in months would languish for years due to poor planning, non-existent project management and downright incompetence.
Luke Algar folded his company a week before work on a project car was arranged to be inspected.
Less than a week before an agreed viewing of Luke’s work on a vehicle, he folded his company. This mean that the that his work could not be examined or contested.
Luke Algar increased his hourly rate by over 150% without any discussion, notice or agreement.
Four years into the build of a car (let’s just ignore the fact it took him four years to not even complete the car!) Luke Algar increased the agreed hourly rate over 150% without any notice. He just increased the amount and charged it. When challenged, he threatened to increase it further...
Luke Algar over-charged 400% more than the agreed time for a job that wasn’t more than 30% completed.
After agreeing a ballpark figure for work on a car, Luke Algar completed less than 30% of the work and then demanded 4x the originally discussed amount for the completed car to be returned. When challenged, he threatened to increase the total further.
Luke Algar disassembled and cannibalised components from a build to sell to other customers
Luke Algar actually took apart a pre-built steering wheel that was part of a customer build to cannibalise the quick-release boss to sell to another client. When he sent the company under, that component still had not been replaced.