Crooked Dealer?

[ae2598 at wayne.edu]

Yeah well, you're judged by the company you keep, as they say.  It may not
be the good mechanic's fault that he works in a den of thieves (or
incompetence, or whatever the case may be), but he's
going to get painted with the same broad brush eventually.  A friend of
mine left the dealership he was working at for that very reason. (Mel
Farr, for you Michiganians)

 On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Shannen Durphey wrote:

> 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
> 
> Jeremy Gonyou wrote:
> > 
> > >Maybe a good experiment to prove to them (and yourself) that the ECM is
> > >not responsible for the ignition would be to remove the ECM entirely and
> > >crank it over on go-juice?
> > 
> > Good ideas, but I'm sick of reasoning with these guys.  I'll give them one
> > more chance to make right, then I'm gonna do my best to smear their
> > reputation like cheap lipstick over an hooker's ugly face.
> > 
> > >Just curious, if this is a theft repair, wouldn't the complete repair be
> > >covered by your insurance, even if the ECM of fuel pump or whatever is
> > >bad?  Let 'em replace whatever they want!
> > 
> > The thought occured to me, but what insurance adjuster is gonna associate a
> > fuel pump with an attempted theft?  Remember, these are cheap bastards we
> > are talking about.
> > 
> > I don't know who else here is from Michigan, but the name is
> > Dreisbach Motors
> > spread the word...
> > 
> > Jeremy
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