Auto shop says Mike Tolbert paid $3,900 bill in coins after dispute
Carolina Panthers running back Mike Tolbert had a bad experience with an auto mechanic recently, and he supposedly ended up paying his entire bill in coins to express his displeasure.
On Tuesday, Tolbert ranted in an Instagram post about how he brought his car to Motion Lab Tuning in Charlotte and was misled about both the cost of work and the time it would take to complete it. He claimed the owner still has not finished the job after more than two months and expects Tolbert to pay more money because he is “a millionaire.”
Not surprisingly, the auto shop says that isn’t the full story. In a Facebook post earlier in the week, Motion Lab Tuning wrote that Tolbert expected preferential treatment and pricing because of his status as an NFL player. The post claims the police were called in order to get Tolbert to pay, and the running back supposedly ended up settling his bill by giving the shop $3,900 in coins.
In other words, the transaction went something like this:
The only thing that would make this story better is if the mechanic claimed Cam Newton came up behind Tolbert and busted out this dance.
Obviously, we’re dealing with a classic case of “he said, she said.” But if Tolbert did pay nearly $4,000 in coins over a disagreement, those are some seriously spiteful shenanigans.
H/T Jalopnik
