Bad dealership experiences

[turtlevette]

Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: turtlevette
I'm stalling to get my airbag recall done. I wonder if they'll give me the part.

I want to stay away from there at all costs.





They will not give you the part-not an airbag part especially. Think about it.......


Ok, i'm thinking about it. There are right to repair laws. Is this like the "i cant let you leave with those brakes"?

 

[bdcardinal]

Originally Posted By: turtlevette
Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: turtlevette
I'm stalling to get my airbag recall done. I wonder if they'll give me the part.

I want to stay away from there at all costs.





They will not give you the part-not an airbag part especially. Think about it.......


Ok, i'm thinking about it. There are right to repair laws. Is this like the "i cant let you leave with those brakes"?


They don't apply when it comes to recalls. Especially when it comes to HAZMAT parts.

The only time I have ever handed out a recall part is when we have had some of the heavy truck mobile mechanics call and say the speed control deactivation switch is leaking on a truck. I will see the recall is open and just deliver the part to them and take care of the paperwork on my end.

 

[CKN]

Originally Posted By: turtlevette
Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: turtlevette
I'm stalling to get my airbag recall done. I wonder if they'll give me the part.

I want to stay away from there at all costs.





They will not give you the part-not an airbag part especially. Think about it.......


Ok, i'm thinking about it. There are right to repair laws. Is this like the "i cant let you leave with those brakes"?



There are liability issues-besides returning the old part. That's what you need to think about.

 

[PR1955]

No, it's more like the dealership is responsible for ensuring that the repair was performed as per manufacturer's instructions and specifications. It is a requirement in their dealer agreement with the manufacturer, and it is because of legal and liability issues, not just to keep a captive customer. If the repair is done improperly and there is an injury or death because of it, who do you think will be held responsible ?

 

[turtlevette]

Originally Posted By: PR1955
No, it's more like the dealership is responsible for ensuring that the repair was performed as per manufacturer's instructions and specifications. It is a requirement in their dealer agreement with the manufacturer, and it is because of legal and liability issues, not just to keep a captive customer. If the repair is done improperly and there is an injury or death because of it, who do you think will be held responsible ?


Then they could extend that philosophy to the whole car. Even oil changes. They'll make sure we have no right to work on or modify our own cars.

You mean to tell me I can't get an air bag from the parts department? There's definitely many places to get them online.

 

[bdcardinal]

Originally Posted By: turtlevette
You mean to tell me I can't get an air bag from the parts department? There's definitely many places to get them online.


Not the recall repair inflators.

 

[kschachn]

Originally Posted By: turtlevette
Then they could extend that philosophy to the whole car. Even oil changes. They'll make sure we have no right to work on or modify our own cars.

You mean to tell me I can't get an air bag from the parts department? There's definitely many places to get them online.


You have degenerated into a complete troll on here. Is this how you get your jollies now?

 

[Jarlaxle]

I wonder if he is hitting the sauce.

 

[PR1955]

Your ignorance is not even worth the time I just took to type this.
Go buy a fake/defective/used one online. Hopefully, if you are ever in an accident and it does not deploy, you will be the only one in the vehicle.

 

[turtlevette]

Originally Posted By: PR1955
Your ignorance is not even worth the time I just took to type this.
Go buy a fake/defective/used one online. Hopefully, if you are ever in an accident and it does not deploy, you will be the only one in the vehicle.


Blah

Yea, the dealer primates that work on my car are incredibly important, like the doctor performing open heart surgery, yada, yada.

The cars i spend most of my time in don't have airbags. But now we're a society that expects idiot proof rubber baby buggy bumpers on everything so we'll never die.

More than half the time a dealer messes up more than they fix.

 

[Jarlaxle]

Dude...seriously...lay off the sauce for a while.

 

[PR1955]

I could be wrong, but I believe an engineer was involved somewhere designing these defective parts....just sayin..shouldn't throw stones...

 

[turtlevette]

Your intent is to defend dealerships? I'd might be more comfortable about purposely taking my car there for service if they had any standards to meet like car manufacturers do. Like iso9001 etc, etc. As it is now they can hire anyone off the street to work on our cars. No quality control, no double checking work, minimal record keeping. It's the wild west.

And i don't care what anyone says. Once a dealer has torn into your dash or done other major work on your car, it'll never be the same quality work as the factory did.

 

[Bladecutter]

Originally Posted By: turtlevette
Once a dealer has torn into your dash or done other major work on your car, it'll never be the same quality work as the factory did.


I've seen some really bad assembly of cars from the factory over the years, so there is always the possibility that having a dealer tech work on the car might actually improve it over when it rolled out of the factory.

[censored], my Cayman had a loose bolt in the dash that occasionally would rattle, that it took a dealer tech to locate and tighten.

BC.