I can see the malicious angle. They would pressure me a bunch to convince me to service my work vehicles at the dealer.
I only did early on as the salesman would give my ex-wife his car for the day when she would bring it in when needed. They were fantastic senior sales guys. Real gentlemen. I think they were at war with the service department though.
Usually their service department couldn't handle more than a oil change. One time my ex asked them to change out a hard to reach headlight bulb when I was out of town on a business trip.
The service department said it would cost $700 to replace the whole headlight assembly on our new car bought at their dealership as it had aftermarket remaned headlights. They said the car must of been in a accident and we were sold a repo.
When I got home from my trip it took me 2 minutes to change the bulb myself and I tore a strip off the Service Manager for not only for their gall to claim a brand new car with 5 kms they sold me was not new and their Bullshit scam preying on women.
They didn't seem to care. I never bought another car from them again. I had bought 3 in a row from them at that stage for work. God damn crooks and I feel bad for those that don't know any better. My ex-wife ended up driving around with 1 headlight in winter for a few days as a dealership was trying to scam her. They *must get some people on this BS to even be so bold.
Thanks. I just figured that out. The original link kept taking me to a lemmy.world instance that I couldn't log into. With the manually altered one from above I could message him for the hidden rules that aren't posted in the side bar for Shitposting. Hopefully we can get those added to the side bar too.
I sure hope they aren't too late to the party. With glut of overpriced trucks sitting on the domestic lots in the past few weeks as it seems they have caught up with demand and/or people are having a harder time getting financing from banks for $100,000+ trucks and EV product is not moving where they will put their production labour into next? This is even starting to happen with Tacos at Toyota.
Thank you for the info. I can't log into Lemmy. World from a web browser or my Sync app. According to profile he's in Ireland and probably asleep or at his age hopefully partying.
I'm just trying to understand these hidden rules. It's not the first time I've bumped up against them and I didn't think of the abortion angle. I'll keep this in mind as it's usually not top of mind for me.
If it was the first one no, same for the second and third, but this one is off as it seems to be about their agenda not a bunch of stupid masturbation jokes
I'm glad to hear that. Often I've driven rental cars and *last time I struggled to find the gear shifter which was replaced by buttons on the dash.
I've also seen just a video of a Tesla only new driver struggle to drive a ICE car because it had a gear shifter and didn't automatically brake. I'm feeling like a dinosaur now...
I just heard about GM this morning in my tech news. I didn't realize that about Ford too.
I've drawn a line in the sand with my vehicles at about 2011 for tech. I love tech and I love cars but just not into the current versions of everything being touch screen controls.
Give me knobs for climate controls, gear shifters, and gauges for the rest. They don't need all of these computer systems that fail or become outdated as soon as they are released like the manufacturer's nav systems. We also don't need them to stop working completely because a sensor failed and can only be replaced by the dealer.
My phone in a holder can be the smartest part of the car for me thanks.
Well the older family members this Xmas season will need to make do with butter cookies. Not sure they will get use to so few ingredients in them though as they are imported from Denmark.
I wonder if they were taking notes from John Deere and the automotive industry or will it be the reverse here soon?
Just imagine all these vehicles that could be bricked for not going back to the stealerships for outrageous prices on parts and incompetent service.
Also the vehicles that could be disabled for not paying for device protection plan that allows your vehicle to operate safely. It would be a shame if your vehicle stopped working on your way to work or the hospital.
I suspect Tesla, BMW, and John Deere are the closest to this reality.
I sure hope the government doesn't help with another great cash for clunkers national program to get rid of more cars too old for these measures. Sure is a great way to drive new car sales though...
I can see the malicious angle. They would pressure me a bunch to convince me to service my work vehicles at the dealer.
I only did early on as the salesman would give my ex-wife his car for the day when she would bring it in when needed. They were fantastic senior sales guys. Real gentlemen. I think they were at war with the service department though.
Usually their service department couldn't handle more than a oil change. One time my ex asked them to change out a hard to reach headlight bulb when I was out of town on a business trip.
The service department said it would cost $700 to replace the whole headlight assembly on our new car bought at their dealership as it had aftermarket remaned headlights. They said the car must of been in a accident and we were sold a repo.
When I got home from my trip it took me 2 minutes to change the bulb myself and I tore a strip off the Service Manager for not only for their gall to claim a brand new car with 5 kms they sold me was not new and their Bullshit scam preying on women.
They didn't seem to care. I never bought another car from them again. I had bought 3 in a row from them at that stage for work. God damn crooks and I feel bad for those that don't know any better. My ex-wife ended up driving around with 1 headlight in winter for a few days as a dealership was trying to scam her. They *must get some people on this BS to even be so bold.