I’m really sick and tired of taking my car in for service at my dealership (I normally wouldn’t but I have warranty). It doesn’t matter what time I make an appointment or how small this issues I’m waiting minimum three hours. On top of that if I decide to go into work I have to wait one to two hours just to get your stupid shuttle which then allows you to push my car to the very bottom of the list, so when I get there at 4:30pm, my car—which I dropped off at 8am still hasn’t been looked at OR is just being checked now! Or my favourite was the time you took my car in for an 8am appointment which had been made a week prior to replace a certain part which you ended up “not having in stock that day” so I had to come back and waste more of my time! Why wouldn’t you print a list of parts you will be needing for that days appointments and ensure you have them? Or is that too f-ing obvious! I can honestly say I don’t understand why people without warranty willing go to the dealership it’s a total waste of time/rip-off! -Uggggggg
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2014.
You must be the uninformed wo/man…
This is what happens at car repair dealies… dealer or no dealer!
Been many years since I had a car, but I thought that if you have warranty, even the garages honour those warranties, not just the dealership. As long as you keep the paperwork, to show the work etc. Again I might be wrong on this but I’m sure I had warranty work done at the garage I used.
Um. If you’re taking your car in to get shit done on it THAT frequently and it’s still under warranty… yikes. Let me guess: you bought a domestic car, right?
We have an 18 year old volvo and I think in the past three years we’ve had the car we’ve had to…. fuck I don’t even remember what we had to do to the car last (aside from fluid changes, which my dad does, himself). I think the last time anything was done on it that required going to an actual service dealer was to change over the tires to winter ones and that took all of a half hour at Crappy Tire. This is an 18 year old car we’re talking about, here.
It’s pretty much been the same deal with the other cars we’ve had (they’ve all been european cars)… the only time we were constantly running to the mechanic to get shit fixed is when we had domestic cars (two in the past thirty years). They were cheaper to buy an the parts were cheaper than the european cars, but they cost a WHOLE lot more in the long run.
And you know how much we paid for that 18 year old car? $1000, cash (no loan). Insurance is dirt cheap, too.
I’d suggest buying smarter next time, OB.
Domestic cars are for people too poor or stupid to buy a good car, but slightly better off than catching the 52.
You’re never better off catching the 52!
Buy a Volkswagon. Not one of those shitty ones made in Mexico, a good one, made in Germany!!!!
The only time you’re better off catching the 52 is when you’re waiting for a bus to get the hell out of Highfield! lol.
I’m really not one to dis someone’s ride (because hay, any ride is better than the bus!), but it just strikes me how people will pass up a 10-15 year old volvo in favour of a newer domestic that’s going to cost you way more to buy, number one, and way more to fix in the long run.
Canadian law states you DO NO HAVE TO take your vehicle to the dealer while it is under warranty for normal maintenance. The only time, I believe, you have to take it to a dealer is to have RECALL work done. This was passed many years ago.
Further to my previous post, you will have to keep receipts and records to prove the work required to keep the warranty valid is done, such as oil changes done when they are supposed to.
If you need a repair done under warranty; the dealer has to do it. Your local garage cannot; well; they can but you’ll pay.
You do not need to go to the dealer for regular maintenance. keep your receipts regardless of where you get work done.
That’s why they ‘recommend’ going to the dealer…
they already will HAVE the records so you don’t forget and have your warranty lapse.
dealer for the service, ours is free. rustproof the fecking thing every year but for accidents insurance usually sends you somewhere else. japanese car, vroom
Eh. Learn how to change your own car fluids and you never have to waste your money on over priced service again.
And you can get an oil pan from crappy tire that’s way cheaper than dealer pans. The volvo dealer pan cost 65 bucks more than the crappy tire one that works just as well.
yeah pk, we all know you have a great volvo. blah blah blah. just joshing, they are tanklike
Tojos are my mojo these days
paingirl: my thoughts exactly.
murmurmur my dad murmurmur our Volvo is AMAZEBALLS murmurmur you must be DUMB murmurmur
Buy a Toyota/Honda or some other economical Asian car. About the same price as most domestics, except with fewer problems, and far less expensive than Euro-brands. Plus I see just as many old Tercels on the road as I do old Volvos and Volkswagens. Take your car to a reputable local shop (reputable as per BBB grade), and keep your records in a folder somewhere.
my favourite car was our honda crx but then i got pregnant and we bought a corolla
Eh. If you don’t like what I post, sirmeowalot, that’s a YOU problem, not a me problem.
Also, you can suck it.
Had to post love for the Corolla when I was reading the posts, I grew up in a family who bought and drove Fords, broken down and stranded all the time..bought a 76 Corolla in 1995, I beat that little thing for two years all it ever need was brakes and tires, sure I know Corollas are boring, but worry free driving… this is the car.