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Dominik Bahn and Carbostuff Engineering, it seems this is one name that just will not go way, and every day we are contacted with another new story of theft, fraud and deceit, the most upsetting part is this is being done to fellow petrolheads all over the world, with customers and contacts especially from Australia and New Zealand, making contact with us daily now.

Everyone that we speak to has a similar story, and everyone thinks they are a fool for handing over their hard earned cash, for zero return, but when someone advertises what you want, and the industry standard is to pay up front for custom manufactured parts, you pay and expect to take delivery of your parts, unfortunately Dominik Bahn has already planned out what he will do when he gets your money, absolutely nothing, well we are about to change that with this post.

since our last blog, his bank account details have changed, he now has a new account, apparently the TAX office have claimed the account and all of its funds, allegedly.

Since our last blog post, we have heard from various people around the world, all with the same problem, ordered and paid for parts, waiting months and months for delivery, where parts do not arrive, Broemmler Motorsport in Germany for GTR Parts, Koala Furniture in Victoria for Porsche GT3 Parts, Modena Racing for Audi R8 Ultra parts, Stephen Bolton from New Zealand for Mercedes Engine parts, and this last week, Terry Home who has also been added to our long list of recent victims that have lost money dealing with Dominik Bahn and his company Carbostuff Engineering.

Dominik Bahn Daily Driver BMW 5  NMS CE99 Registration

If you add our funds along with what Amber Performance is still owed to the list above, it’s a lot of money, if you then add the other huge list of people over the last 2 years, and its beyond theft, or a scam, its fraud on a whopping scale.

As we stated in a blog post from our travels, to Neumunster Germany we found 2 addresses to be Fake, the third address is where the so called Carbostuff business is based and run from, we doubt you will find him there, and although you do have signs of life, with a post box wearing the company name, we didn’t seen anyone at these premises with our four day stay in a local hotel, but if you need to camp outside and wait, then the address details are below.

Carbostuff Engineering, c/o Rudolf-Diesel-Str, 7a 24536 Neumünster, Germany.

Since our last post we have also uncovered Dominik Bahn’s Home address details, which we are more than happy to share with our Motor Trade / Motorsport community, we are sharing because this is happening to more people than we currently know of, so if we can help other fellow petrolhead and enthusiast, then surely that’s a good thing.

Dominik Bahn, Holsatenring 3, 24539 Neumünster, Germany or we have Hermannus-Muller-Weg 1B Neumünster, Germany

These address have been confirmed by a customer that Knows all about Dominik and his whereabouts , he knows him extremely well, from their early days.

Please feel free to send us any information of your own loss, we are working with Peter Folster, from the German Crime Squad, and the more information we give him collectively the better, as we have said previously, this is a very serious fraudulent crime, Carbostuff are earning obscene amounts of money, scamming the enthusiast, its big theft, and it needs to be stopped.

More news has also surfaced over the last couple of weeks with regards Dominik Bahn, so I don't think there will be too much surprise that he is on probation for crimes of theft, for which he has served time in prison, we have the probation officers name that he has to report to.

as we have full details of his Probation helper, we would rather not publish online, but will be more than happy to refer you directly, if you get in touch with us.

Please circulate this blog post, as we may just stop this criminal once and for all.

Dominik Bahn Carbostuff Engineering

The man behind the fraud... DOMINIK BAHN_CARBOSTUFF ENGINEERING

 

Most people that follow what we do will know all about the on going issues we have with the company Carbostuff Engineering, and the proprietor Dominik Bahn.

After months and months of problems, and excuse after excuse, it was time to make some decisions regarding getting back our money that had been paid to him some 14 months previously, we know that a lot of carbon parts are bespoke, but 14 months worth of excuses had taken its toll, so the VAD crew along with our good friends over at Amber Performance, who happens to be in the same position as we are, which is basically handing over wads of cash and no sign of any parts.

With the date set, and channel crossing booked it was time to hit the road, and what better way to test the awesome new Amber Performance / JW Racing Fiesta ST than a European 1400 mile round trip, and the car didn’t disappoint with its Amber Performance 270 bhp stage 2 upgrade consisting ECU enhancements, air filters, intercooler, blow off valve, exhaust, 18” wheels, all finished off with some carbon styling additions to the bonnet, sills, wing mirrors, & rear hatch spoiler, this little pocket rocket looks as good as it goes.

With the crossing done and on French soil, it took us just over eight hours to drive through France, Holland, Belgium into Germany, with Neumunster being at the top end of Germany, by Hamburg, so not too far away from the border of Denmark, well it would be would it.

The first point of call was the most obvious, Segeberger Str. 76 24539 Neumünster as it’s the one Carbostuff use on all of their headed paperwork and on all email address signatures, but as you can see by the pictures attached, this is merely a lock up garage, where you could just about store a car, so no company, no house, no business and certainly no manufacturing of carbon parts.

Our next point of call was the address we had from the domain name registration for the company www.carbostuff.com Hermannus-Mueller-Weg 1c, Neumuenster, 24536, Germany, again as you can see by the attached picture, is a small house with no one coming or going, and no one there at any time we made a visit, certainly not the home of the illusive Dominik Bahn.

Our last point of call before we called it a night after our non stop eleven hour drive from door to door, was an address we happened to stumble across paperwork that had been sent to us, with an address we didn’t have, and as far as we are aware, it isn’t listed anywhere, Rudolf-Diesel-Str. 7a 24536 Neumünster … BINGO! We hit the jackpot, outside these premises to confirm this was indeed where Mr Bahn and Carbostuff trade from, was the letter box with Carbostuff Engineering label and looking through the window confirmed we had found the base, unfortunately it was late, so all locked up, but we planned a visit first thing the next morning.

We gave Dominik the benefit of the doubt, and called him on the evening when we got back to our hotel, we told him we were in town and would like to catch up, he read every me whats app message which he ignored along with our calls, were we surprised, not really, in hind sight it wasn’t such a great idea, as we now knew what we are dealing with, a conniving coward, who is very, very good at what he does, which is to prey on people around the world, obtaining money by deception.

We arrived at the Carbostuff head quarters the next morning, bright eyed and bushy tailed and low and behold it was all locked up, we waited a few hours and even drove back to the previous address we had already been to, but to no avail, he simply didn’t show, and didn’t open, so obvious there is no business operating from these premises, if there was and it was busy as he had always stated, then how can you shut down a business operation for 3 days.

Carbostuff Engineering Rudolf-Diesel-Str. 7a 24536 Neumünster

With Dominik deciding to keep a low profile, and taking the choice to ignore the fact we had driven the best part of 700 miles to see him, to merely discuss our options on the parts or refunding us, we were left with no other choice to find the local German Police station, and to say they were helpful was an understatement, they referred us to the local Crime squad who took our statement and were fantastic, it’s amazing what we were informed, but unfortunately can’t discuss, what we can say is they now have a photograph, Vehicle Licence plate and 3 address, along with all of our evidence, and although it doesn’t help us get the funds back, it pleases us to know that this is a criminal offence and they have taken it very seriously. So this along with working with a fantastic Lawyer, that specialises in criminal activity, we are on the way to hopefully getting this guy to court, and with what we have found out over the last couple of weeks, it’s quite a simple process and very inexpensive getting this process into the German court system, our funds reimbursed and we can then move on from this complete farce.

On a more pleasant note the Amber-Performance Fiesta ST 270 Performed effortlessly, and we must admit to being quite taken back how good this little pocket rocket really is, Amber through their sister company JW Racing have done an incredible getting 270 usable BHP from this little 1.6 turbo charged engine. the chassis is also worth a mention, with a full load and the coilover suspension was very good, it felt beautifully balanced sitting on its 18" wheels and 215/35R18 tyres, quite an incredible achievement. With all of the other tasteful mods it make for one very special little car, we can't wait to see what they do with their new 2016 Ford RS Focus MK3 that they have just taken delivery of, watch this space as we also get involved with this one, assisting on the wheel side of the enhancement upgrade package, for the ultimate RS upgrades in the UK, visit the guys at Amber Performance / JW Racing and tell them the VAD crew sent you.

For any details on any of the discussed upgrades for the Fiesta ST, The all new Ford Mustang or the up and coming RS Focus MK3 contact the sales team.

 

Carbostuff, Fraud & Deception Warning.

Carbostuff or Carbostuff Engineering (one of the same) are up to the same old theft & deception antics that they were up to with former company CCD Motorsport, only this time it’s a larger than ever.

We want share our own experience with the Automotive world, and hopefully Mr Bahn will one day be brought to justice and serve his time in a prison cell, we are currently working with our local Fraud squad and also our Lawyer to make sure our funds are returned, as it’s been 14 months since he relieved us of our funds for parts ordered, but not just us but one our Business associates Jason Hawes owner of Amber performance, combined value of around €40,000 euro, this along with a further €160,000 mounts up to a considerable amount of cash, for doing absolutely nothing.

Dominik Bahn, the owner has been repeatedly chased since May of 2015, by us and Amber Performance with regards the whereabouts of the parts, the excuses have ranged from:

“DHL have rerouted your delivery to Russia”

“Delivery on route but it’s been lost”

“Im on vacation in Dubai, my staff will organise (he works alone)

“I have to finish work for Broemmler Motorsport”

“The Russian Customer has threatened him to complete his work before anyone else”

The worst excuse of all is “one of my children has passed away, so I can’t talk for a few days” , whilst typing this to us on his Whats app conversation, also taking an order for a Bentley GT GT3 kit at the same time from our entrusted colleagues in China for a Bentley GT3 kit that he doesn’t have or own.

We have also heard recently how he told a customer he could not discuss his order for a few weeks, because he was under Chemotherapy, and he has to recover, well that same cusomer didnt receive his parts, or his refund, basically this guy will think of anything and stope at nothing to keep your money and not send you the parts you have paid for, so it’s important that this is shared amongst our community and the motoring trade, especially the tuning world.

We have every email and whats app conversation documented from the very start of our business, some of which we will be posting, merely to show the world that Dominik Bahn is one of the biggest con artist in this industry, he has collected serious amounts of people hard earned cash and kept it for his own personal gain, I guess it’s a case of why work when you can get money for free.

Some people might be thinking why hand over all that cash for the parts upfront, and to be honest it’s a fair question, but this is standard policy within the industry, we now work with one of the best composite companies, and it’s no different, apart from one huge difference, you actually get what you have paid for, its custom work, not an off the shelf part, so it has to be paid for in full, this is why no alarm bells ring when payment is asked for, especially when you have an email stating 6 to 8 weeks delivery.

VAD & Amber Performance are not alone in people / companies being scammed by Dominik Bahn, we have met a few people that have also come out of the woodwork with the same story, handing over their cash, with no return, we know of one person who has given him over £100k and has had a hood, we also have been speaking with Anthony Gaylard, who has a list of over 20 odd people all with the same story.

He advertises on all of the global motorsport network sites, so some people may not be aware of his scam, one company recently from Australia was warned just in time before handing over $80,000, so its worth sharing the information.

Sites linked to parts advertised by Carbostuff.

Racingpal.co.uk

Racecar-ads.com

motorsportmarkt.de

motorsport-sales.com

racingcars24.com

supercarchallege.nl

classifieds.racerconnect.com

Motorsport2000.de

Everythingmotorsport.com

Racinbazar.com

his own website for reference www.carbostuff.com and also his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carbostuff.engineering/?fref=ts

you will see from his website, he showcases parts, but not complet conversions.

Please paste and share this information, the more people that know the better, we will update our blog and media network as more news comes in.

Thank you

VAD

 
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