Crooked Dealer?

[Bob Wooten]

thank you Jeremy, now if only some politicians would be as upstanding.

BW


> [Original Message]
> From: Jeremy Gonyou <jgonyou at hotmail.com>
> To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
> Date: 1/26/01 7:08:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Crooked Dealer?
>
> 
> 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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