C7 bugs?
E-Ray, 3LZ, ZER, LIFT
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From: NE South Carolina
In my C6 (and most cars) I'm typically 3/4 the way back on the fore/aft seat movement. But I'm 6'2' with a 32" inseam. So I literally set it and forget it. Memory seats are only used by me so when someone else sits in my car (or I clean it) I can return it to my saved position.
My mothers BMW seat moves when you unlock the car with the FOB. It's a 2004 5-series. I think that behavior is quite standard on the German cars.
My mothers BMW seat moves when you unlock the car with the FOB. It's a 2004 5-series. I think that behavior is quite standard on the German cars.
E-Ray, 3LZ, ZER, LIFT
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: NE South Carolina
Agree. The problem probably still starts with GM!
I’ll explain: A friend’s son worked for GM some years ago and they paid for he and some of his colleagues to get MBA’s.
In one course they analyzed why Toyota had a far better customer service rating. One main conclusion was Toyota didn’t treat their dealers as crooks! I recall visiting my Uncle at work in the early 1960’s. He was a service manager for a large Chevy dealer. While sitting in his office he had a truck head gasket in his hands and was grooving a section with his thumb nail! When I asked what he was doing he explained GM required him to keep all warrantee service parts they replaced for 60 days. Then periodically they would ask for one or two on a random basis! He said cataloging and dating all these parts took a lot of time and space. In this case they replaced a truck head gasket and didn’t keep the old one! However these folks are smart and if GM wants a defective part, they will make one!
According to what my friend’s son found, Toyota applied what I learned from my old boss at the supermarket when I started in high school and worked there thru college; be “Penny Foolish and Dollar Wise!” Accept a customer’s word for small returns etc., “if a customer complains, you can only say “yes mam or yes sir or call me.” “A customer is always right and I’ll make all decisions of who we want as a customer, NOT you!” Learned a lot from him! Of interest when I started the owner had only this 7 register store and a year later expanded to 14 registers. When I left 7 years later for a full time R&D job he owned 37 Shoprite stores and another ~35 with a partner. They split and formed Pathmark!
Last edited by JerryU; Mar 14, 2015 at 02:46 PM.
