Dealer Revved C8 Cold
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Dealer Revved C8 Cold
While my car was in service at Starling GMC in Titusville, FL, a tech decided to basically redline it multiple times while cold and even saying to "blow it up." What do you think? Here is the video:
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Aug 2, 2025, 06:21 PM
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If this like Alaska I'd say oh boy
While my car was in service at Starling GMC in Titusville, FL, a tech decided to basically redline it multiple times while cold and even saying to "blow it up." What do you think? Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkRLqZWrrg0
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While my car was in service at Starling GMC in Titusville, FL, a tech decided to basically redline it multiple times while cold and even saying to "blow it up." What do you think? Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkRLqZWrrg0
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Management needs to have a talk with that tech!
I personally hate car dealership service departments- it starts with the service writers looking for any type of upsell to pad the bill as much as possible to the shop having young immature techs doing this type of behavior. This is going to be my dilemma when I need to get my car serviced- on one hand you'd like to take it to a Chevy dealer where you feel they have been trained and are used to working on C8's but on the other hand I'm taking my car to a Chevy dealer. There is a huge difference in the service quality you receive when working with luxury car brands at least in my experience.
I think GM has done a fabulous job with design and improvement of quality in their vehicles but they need to improve the back end of the house by getting level of service up to par with higher end brands. GM wants to compete with the other European supercars they need to provide the same white glove care in service as well.
I need to learn how to record in my car like you did? That was really slick
I personally hate car dealership service departments- it starts with the service writers looking for any type of upsell to pad the bill as much as possible to the shop having young immature techs doing this type of behavior. This is going to be my dilemma when I need to get my car serviced- on one hand you'd like to take it to a Chevy dealer where you feel they have been trained and are used to working on C8's but on the other hand I'm taking my car to a Chevy dealer. There is a huge difference in the service quality you receive when working with luxury car brands at least in my experience.
I think GM has done a fabulous job with design and improvement of quality in their vehicles but they need to improve the back end of the house by getting level of service up to par with higher end brands. GM wants to compete with the other European supercars they need to provide the same white glove care in service as well.
I need to learn how to record in my car like you did? That was really slick
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At the very least, an apology is in order from that dealership. I would tell the incompetent management (who don't care about their customers) that you will speak to the tech personally and will be posting everything including the original recording on your youtube channel for everyone to see.
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I don't think he hurt the car, but there was zero reason for doing it either. I would just go away and never use that dealer again. Honestly, it's why I did museum delivery with my Z06 out of fear a brand new zero mile car would have a tech doing the PDI say to the others "hey guys, listen to this thing!" WAAAA,WAAAAA, WAAAAAA, WAAAAAAAA as the new engine revs to the moon. No thank you.
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