It was like a takata airbag retailer or something. Car had decals and everything. He said they would come out to my house and do the repair
Good to know, otherwise I thought this was 100% scam. Now it's only 99% likely scam.
Not out of the ordinary. I seem to recall that Honda was paying dealers to literally knock on the doors of owners of affected Honda models and offer to do the repair in their driveway, on the spot. If the owner still refused, you can be sure that was documented in case of any civil lawsuit(s) in the future where the owner or passengers were injured or killed in an accident that the airbags may have helped with.
He wanted to take a picture of the truck to show they made contact. I declined
Rest assured, it's been documented that you declined it.
Ford is big on this for the airbag recalls and the Transit guibo recalls. We had one where the guibo left the chat and the driveshaft broke the trans and wrapped up the fuel and brake lines all around it. Ford denied coverage becasue they were able to prove the fleet owner had ignored multiple letters, certified letters, and notices to the fleet manager. The company had all the services done at a tire shop and assumed that any recalls would be handled by them. That was fun.
Ford is pushing dealers to have mobile services for certain recalls. The ones that have to be done in shop are noted in the recall and they encourage us to send someone out to bring the vehicle in and redeliver to the customer.
Inconvenience probably. Also some states, like California, will not send your registration tags if there is an open safety or emissions compliance recall on the vehicle.
I've seen a mobile business that specializes only in window regulators. I thought that was a pretty interesting idea. No one likes doing regulators but if you do it day in day out, the specialization and experience can be profitable.
Bring the car to the dealer they will run a vin check and identify recalls and schedule a repair.
