|
Forums59
Topics1,052,626
Posts14,200,590
Members144,496
| |
Most Online39,925
Dec 30th, 2023
|
|
 Life At A Car Dealership.....
#15230186
10/29/24 03:34 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
I'm going to start a post about all the crazy things that happen at a car dealership.
#1
Customer calls this morning. They drove over 3 hours home yesterday in a 2023 Silverado 2500 Diesel, and went the whole way in 4x4. Thinks they may have hurt it. But they read online where that was ok....
I asked them if it was in 4x4 ( I knew it wasn't) when they were here. He said they wanted to test the Advanced 4x4 setting.
Speechless.
Last edited by Brian Spagnola; 10/29/24 03:35 PM.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230192
10/29/24 03:38 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2021
Posts: 19,006
YEE_YEE
TFF Guru
|
|
TFF Guru
Joined: Jun 2021
Posts: 19,006 |
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230199
10/29/24 03:45 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
He also said he called his local Chevrolet (House) but they don't know anything.
Luckily it's under warranty.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230217
10/29/24 03:55 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,013
grandbassslayer
TFF Guru
|
|
TFF Guru
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,013 |
I'm going to start a post about all the crazy things that happen at a car dealership.
#1
Customer calls this morning. They drove over 3 hours home yesterday in a 2023 Silverado 2500 Diesel, and went the whole way in 4x4. Thinks they may have hurt it. But they read online where that was ok....
I asked them if it was in 4x4 ( I knew it wasn't) when they were here. He said they wanted to test the Advanced 4x4 setting.
Speechless. Do they automatically kick out of 4wd at a certain speed? I know a guy that drove home from the lake at 20 mph cause he didn’t know you needed to go back to neutral to shift out of 4lo so he assumed it was just stuck in 4lo.
Last edited by grandbassslayer; 10/29/24 03:55 PM.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: grandbassslayer]
#15230221
10/29/24 03:58 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
I'm going to start a post about all the crazy things that happen at a car dealership.
#1
Customer calls this morning. They drove over 3 hours home yesterday in a 2023 Silverado 2500 Diesel, and went the whole way in 4x4. Thinks they may have hurt it. But they read online where that was ok....
I asked them if it was in 4x4 ( I knew it wasn't) when they were here. He said they wanted to test the Advanced 4x4 setting.
Speechless. Do they automatically kick out of 4wd at a certain speed? I know a guy that drove home from the lake at 20 mph cause he didn’t know you needed to go back to neutral to shift out of 4lo so he assumed it was just stuck in 4lo. I honestly have no idea.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230268
10/29/24 04:37 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
#2 I will call this entry, "A lot can happen in 100 miles"... We buy a truck from Auction. Clean truck, decent miles, checks all boxes. Carfax shows local Ford dealer took it in, serviced it, and even put a new motor in it. I personally drove it, run perfect. Customer comes in, drives it, also thinks it's perfect. So we make a deal on a Friday. On Saturday it looses oil pressure, check engine light. So he goes to local Ford dealer that said they did the repair. Finds out that they in fact did NOT put an engine in it. They took it on trade, found out it needed this repair, marked it up as having a new engine, patched it to last just long enough and sent it to auction. We obviously just gave this nice feller his money back and are doing the repair. Whoops.... ![[Linked Image]](https://texasfishingforum.com/forums/pics/userpics/2024/10/full-13754-247156-0.jpeg)
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230285
10/29/24 04:51 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,365
BassFever
TFF Guru
|
|
TFF Guru
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 15,365 |
I hope you keep up with this topic.
I've been watching some Youtube video's showing how people get around carfaxe's and how they cheat the system. Can't trust Carfax as much these days.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: BassFever]
#15230293
10/29/24 04:53 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
I hope you keep up with this topic.
I've been watching some Youtube video's showing how people get around carfaxe's and how they cheat the system. Can't trust Carfax as much these days. Hardly any such thing as a 1 owner now. You buy a brand new truck, buy a house down the street. Update your registration, 2 owner. You take the rebate so you use their financing. Refinance at your bank, 2 owner.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230313
10/29/24 05:11 PM
|
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,013
grandbassslayer
TFF Guru
|
|
TFF Guru
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 15,013 |
#2 I will call this entry, "A lot can happen in 100 miles"... We buy a truck from Auction. Clean truck, decent miles, checks all boxes. Carfax shows local Ford dealer took it in, serviced it, and even put a new motor in it. I personally drove it, run perfect. Customer comes in, drives it, also thinks it's perfect. So we make a deal on a Friday. On Saturday it looses oil pressure, check engine light. So he goes to local Ford dealer that said they did the repair. Finds out that they in fact did NOT put an engine in it. They took it on trade, found out it needed this repair, marked it up as having a new engine, patched it to last just long enough and sent it to auction. We obviously just gave this nice feller his money back and are doing the repair. Whoops.... Wait - wouldn’t Ford corporate make the dealer in question make you whole- it’s fraud…
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230316
10/29/24 05:15 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,981
DI
TFF Guru
|
|
TFF Guru
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,981 |
How many packs of cigarettes get burned up in an average day at a dealership? Every time I have bought a new ride there are 3 or 14 salesmen standing outside sucking on heaters, they all look really stressed out.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Brian Spagnola]
#15230317
10/29/24 05:15 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 2,646
Flyfisherman
Mama's Boy
|
|
Mama's Boy
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 2,646 |
Bro, you’ve never worked buy here pay here. You haven’t seen anything lol.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Flyfisherman]
#15230320
10/29/24 05:17 PM
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,981
DI
TFF Guru
|
|
TFF Guru
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,981 |
Bro, you’ve never worked buy here pay here. You haven’t seen anything lol. Tell us some stories.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: Flyfisherman]
#15230330
10/29/24 05:31 PM
|
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 4,742
spacejunkie
TFF Team Angler
|
|
TFF Team Angler
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 4,742 |
Bro, you’ve never worked buy here pay here. You haven’t seen anything lol. Ugly Duckling in SA was one of the worst. Worked for them for three months and two months longer than I wanted to.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: DI]
#15230336
10/29/24 05:41 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
How many packs of cigarettes get burned up in an average day at a dealership? Every time I have bought a new ride there are 3 or 14 salesmen standing outside sucking on heaters, they all look really stressed out. Out of the 13 or so employees that work here only one smokes and he's not a salesperson. And it's not me
Last edited by Brian Spagnola; 10/29/24 05:46 PM.
|
|
|
Re: Life At A Car Dealership.....
[Re: grandbassslayer]
#15230338
10/29/24 05:45 PM
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931
Brian Spagnola
OP
TFF Guru
|
|
OP
TFF Guru
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 28,931 |
#2 I will call this entry, "A lot can happen in 100 miles"... We buy a truck from Auction. Clean truck, decent miles, checks all boxes. Carfax shows local Ford dealer took it in, serviced it, and even put a new motor in it. I personally drove it, run perfect. Customer comes in, drives it, also thinks it's perfect. So we make a deal on a Friday. On Saturday it looses oil pressure, check engine light. So he goes to local Ford dealer that said they did the repair. Finds out that they in fact did NOT put an engine in it. They took it on trade, found out it needed this repair, marked it up as having a new engine, patched it to last just long enough and sent it to auction. We obviously just gave this nice feller his money back and are doing the repair. Whoops.... Wait - wouldn’t Ford corporate make the dealer in question make you whole- it’s fraud… I'm not sure a 5k repair would be worth even picking up the phone to a lawyer. We pay for something called a post sale inspection. It's not so much an inspection that the auction really performs even tho they say they do. It's buys us 3 days of time to inspect the vehicle and return it. You wouldn't believe how many get returned. It has to meet a certain dollar amount. Depending on the seller (like dealers that sell TONS of vehicles at auction) they will actually fight for the seller over the buyer. Politics...
|
|
Moderated by banker-always fishing, chickenman, Derek 🐝, Duck_Hunter, Fish Killer, J-2, Jacob, Jons3825, JustWingem, Nocona Brian, Toon-Troller, Uncle Zeek, Weekender1
|
