Selling my Corvette
Race Director
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 13,760
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From: Haymarket VA
Originally Posted by diyguy
??? Only three post and just a member here for about 6 weeks or less ???
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Very suspicious. Sounds more like someone who joined a few days ago just to blast Corvettes. Possible 
Intermediate
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 42
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From: Woodbridge Virginia
My dealer has been great. Sounds as though you may have gotten a lemon, and to make matters worse, a bad dealer. I have had great luck with my '00 and see my dealer very seldom for that reason.
Safety Car
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 3,996
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From: Louisville KY
Originally Posted by pthomass
Their customer service is so lame that I hung up on the last jerk that I talked to at GM.
A calm cool head will win more favors than threats and accusations. Slow and calmly work your way up the appriopriate chain of command and keep asking for help.
No I am not a GM employee. I am a retired High School Administrator, sharing what I told parents and students for years (actually 36 years).
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 6,366
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From: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Originally Posted by pthomass
There comes a time when common sense will over ride emotion. I have dreamed of the day when I could buy a new Corvette and that day came about a year ago. I could not have been more happy until things started happening. These were things that most any mechanic could have fixed but I made the mistake to using my warranty and taking the car to the dealership for warranty work.
Every thing that has happened to my Vette has been made worse by the dealer. I have found out that the only mechanic in the place that can work on a Vette will not do warranty work because they will not pay him enough. I asked the Mac tool man who is the best Corvette mechanic and he told me the whole store of how it all works. The best mechanic is not paid enough to do the job properly and so he will not work on the vette. The dealership has one scale for service work and another scale for warranty work. So, a job that calls for 2.5 hr of work will turn into half that time for warranty work. I even talked to the mechanic when I say him away from the dealership and he told me he had to make a living and could not afford to take on warranty work.
The mechanics that have worked on my Vette have done more damage to it than what I brought it in for warranty work problems.
The Vette is a wonderful car, I love it, but like I said there comes a time when reality/common sense takes over from the emotional.
With all the computer stuff in my vette its impossible to work on it myself so I give up. GM is no help either. Their customer service is so lame that I hung up on the last jerk that I talked to at GM.
The Vette is gone..... Good Damn Riddence.....
Every thing that has happened to my Vette has been made worse by the dealer. I have found out that the only mechanic in the place that can work on a Vette will not do warranty work because they will not pay him enough. I asked the Mac tool man who is the best Corvette mechanic and he told me the whole store of how it all works. The best mechanic is not paid enough to do the job properly and so he will not work on the vette. The dealership has one scale for service work and another scale for warranty work. So, a job that calls for 2.5 hr of work will turn into half that time for warranty work. I even talked to the mechanic when I say him away from the dealership and he told me he had to make a living and could not afford to take on warranty work.
The mechanics that have worked on my Vette have done more damage to it than what I brought it in for warranty work problems.
The Vette is a wonderful car, I love it, but like I said there comes a time when reality/common sense takes over from the emotional.
With all the computer stuff in my vette its impossible to work on it myself so I give up. GM is no help either. Their customer service is so lame that I hung up on the last jerk that I talked to at GM.
The Vette is gone..... Good Damn Riddence.....
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This is a topic that has been discussed here many times - is it really an issue that the car is a lemon or is the dealership service department the lemon? I won't dispute that there are some real Ahole service departments out there - but for all the bad ones, there are some good ones.
There's no helping pthomass - he said he already got rid of the car.
Oh well..... 
There's no helping pthomass - he said he already got rid of the car.
The Vette is gone..... Good Damn Riddence.....
Burning Brakes
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 785
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I'm with jimmie jam. Unless the problem is major, the car will NOT see the doors of any dealers around here. I replaced my own 2 year young delco battery & handed it to the parts mgr. GM did pay for most of the new one but I did the work to avoid damage to my beloved C5. Ive seen the damage inflicted on my personal cars at the dealer & learned to leave the "little" things alone. I'm super fussy w/all my vehicles & it's a shame they can't respect that.
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