Crooked Dealer?

[Jeremy Gonyou]

Shannen has a good point and I should make something clear.  Today I went 
back to the dealer.  Since I was there last, the service manager had pulled 
off the original tech, put an expert on the car and troubleshooted the car 
himself.

Turns out the diagnosis was wrong.  I (and all my friends on this list) were 
right in assuming that the ecm was not getting power.
The service manager gave me his sincere apology and accepted all blame (even 
though it was the tech that made the gross misdiagnosis).  So, no one tried 
to screw me (intentially).

It would be wrong of me to say that Dreisbach, as a whole, is a "crooked" 
dealership and I'll have to humblely retract any insuation I made to that 
effect.

However they do have atleast one bad tech - who I wouldn't mind hanging by 
his gonads.  And because of this, I settled my bill, will fix the car myself 
and not consider them for service in the future.

Moral:
Not everybody that works at a dealership is crooked, but some are 
incompetent...and DIS modules can fire independantly of the ECM.

Jeremy




>Ya know, this can be a touchy subject.  There's been many a fight on a
>certain J body list because of this type of flame.  Lotsa stuff goes on in
>a dealership, and 5 honest mechanics can get a bad rep. because of one
>crook that hasn't been fired.  New guys can make mistakes, service
>managers can get bad attitudes, and customers can piss everyone off.  If
>the dealer's that bad, just take your car somewhere else.  If there are
>decent guys working there, don't take $$ out of their pocket by trashing
>reputation of the place they work for.  I've had my share of fights with
>dealership management because they wouldn't do what's right, and not as a
>customer either.  It's hard enough to make a buck in a field where 7 out
>of 10 customers believe they'll probably get screwed.
>Scream about the thieves all you want, just be sure you're not making it
>tougher for the honest guys.
>Shannen

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