Parking lot owner takes vette for a wild ride
#42
Le Mans Master
Has nothing to do with anyone being stupid , or whether its a Corvette or a Chevette when you pay to have your vehicle stored , parked or housed you have a reasonable expectation that your vehicle should be housed and kept in a reasonably safe environment, bad enough you always have to worry about thieves or maybe even disgruntled employees, but to have to worry that let alone the owner of the parking lot someone whom I would think would want to protect his business and keep customers coming back or have a good word of mouth reputation is the actual thief, I can only hope that his business is severely destroyed and that there is some sort of legal action taken against him. but to bash car owners i find that to be ridiculous, most of us have to leave our cars in other peoples hands at times maybe to make repairs, the dealer for service work etc and we like to know that after I drop my car off it doesn't get abused.
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Has nothing to do with anyone being stupid , or wether its a Corvette or a Chevette when you pay to have your vehichle stored , parked or housed you have a reasonable expectation that your vehichle should be housed and kept in a reasonably safe environment, bad enough you always have to worry about thieves or maybe even disgruntled employees, but to have to worry that let alone the owner of the parking lot someone whom I would think would want to protect his business and keep customers coming back or have a good word of mouth reputation is the actual thief, I can only hope that his business is severely destroyed and that there is some sort of legal action taken against him. but to bash car owners i find that to be ridiculous, most of us have to leave our cars in other peoples hands at times maybe to make repairs, the dealer for service work etc and we like to know that after I drop my car off it doesn't get abused.
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This "business owner" (he doesn't act like a true businessman) needs to be in jail. Period.
No telling how many times he's done this.
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Has nothing to do with anyone being stupid , or wether its a Corvette or a Chevette when you pay to have your vehichle stored , parked or housed you have a reasonable expectation that your vehichle should be housed and kept in a reasonably safe environment, bad enough you always have to worry about thieves or maybe even disgruntled employees, but to have to worry that let alone the owner of the parking lot someone whom I would think would want to protect his business and keep customers coming back or have a good word of mouth reputation is the actual thief, I can only hope that his business is severely destroyed and that there is some sort of legal action taken against him. but to bash car owners i find that to be ridiculous, most of us have to leave our cars in other peoples hands at times maybe to make repairs, the dealer for service work etc and we like to know that after I drop my car off it doesn't get abused.
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#50
Drifting
I know how many miles are on my car and I would have known if it would have been driven, also my security system would have called me the second the car was moved. No doubt about it I would have chin checked him on sight.
#52
Melting Slicks
Wow.. if some jack__s took my car, rode around in it, put lumber in it, parked it at his house and had his dog walk on it (in it) I think I would have freaked out on him right then and there.. I ALWAYS check my mileage at the airport park and rides and NEVER bring my vette to any place where someone else will have control of it any longer than dinner! Even then, I try to park it myself.. forget the valet! (and I used to be a valet at a fancy restaurant back in high school.. I'll tell you it was tough not to want to take the ferraris and lambos out for a short spin)... What a jerk!!
#53
Melting Slicks
Wow.. if some jack__s took my car, rode around in it, put lumber in it, parked it at his house and had his dog walk on it (in it) I think I would have freaked out on him right then and there.. I ALWAYS check my mileage at the airport park and rides and NEVER bring my vette to any place where someone else will have control of it any longer than dinner! Even then, I try to park it myself.. forget the valet! (and I used to be a valet at a fancy restaurant back in high school.. I'll tell you it was tough not to want to take the ferraris and lambos out for a short spin)... What a jerk!!
#55
Even dealers do that crap. I had a turbocharged Avalanche that I brought into the dealer for catalytic converter replacement. I always snap a pic of my mileage on drop off. They put 30 miles on my truck and gave it back with broken pistons. They flipped the high boost switch and didn't turn on the methanol injection. They actually tried to pass it off on me. Idle was rough and it was smoking. They didn't even want to pay for a new motor. It was the Chevy dealer in Mission Valley California. I finally agreed to paying the labor. I was getting out of the military and they had me over a barrel.
Moral of the story. Record your mileage AND tell them you recorded the mileage. Keep them honest.
Moral of the story. Record your mileage AND tell them you recorded the mileage. Keep them honest.
When I call back the next day to see if they had fixed it they could not find it. After several days of them not being able to find my car the cops called me. Turns out the service manager had a bad drinking problem and had taken my car up on the grand mesa and went on a binge/bender?
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#59
Safety Car
Busted! Parking lot owner takes customer's Corvette for joyride.
Unbelievable. Dirt road burnouts are just the beginning...
Especially see how he uses the customer's C6 vert at 2:30 in the video at:
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/parkin...ers-car/nNM6q/
Especially see how he uses the customer's C6 vert at 2:30 in the video at:
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/parkin...ers-car/nNM6q/
#60
this is why i don't trust anyone with my corvette