Worst thing you've ever seen a dealer do

One of the greatest things about Autopia is how civil everyone is. People are also farily objective, another refreshing trait. While everyone has favorite products, no one gets defensive when someone suggests a different product. The mutual respect is awesome!
 
Okay, so last week I was driving to one of my apointments, and I drove by a dealership. As I am sitting in traffic, I am watching the dealer spraying down the cars outside with a pressure washer and wiping them dry without the use of soap a sponge. Now I know exactly why the dealer charges extra for the "swirl and waterspot package"(I got this quote from Luster).

What is the worst thing that you have seen a dealer do to a car?
 
Spray the GM brand aerosol can of tire dressing on tires. Its a thick glob of oil and grease and slings all over the place.
 
I had a BMW 325 ix a few years back and at the time, my retired grandpa worked for a Ford dealer in Perry, IA. Well, I wanted to get rid of the dealer sticker on the back and he tells me that he has just the thing to get it off, it's "what we use on all the cars". Well, he takes it in the shop and I watch as he sprays brake cleaner on the sticker and it simply melts the sticker off!!

At the time, I didn't think much of it, I was pretty young and didn't know any better. However, since then I cringe when I think of it! Good 'ol Gramps, I miss the old codger!!!
 
bmw5541 said:
What is the worst thing that you have seen a dealer do to a car?
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Hmm, let me think...ah, two things:

1) Put 2 qts of STP Oil Treatment (the stuff thick as honey) in the crank case
2) Remove the dash from a '68 Caddy to roll the odometer back 40k miles

Regards,
GEWB
 
Here are a couple of gems. Both preformed by the same dealer. Autorama a.k.a. Mercedes Benz of Memphis :out:

1) Have a 380sl(brand new)fall off the back of a transport truck. Rush it around the back of business. Collect insurance, send car to bodyshop to have repaired and sold it as brand new :(

2) On there very first day of doing there inhouse detailing themselves(after me doing all there work for over 6 years) the detail guy was pulling a 911 into the wash bay and his foot slipped off the clutch~drove through a brick wall. He wasn't use to those hairtrigger supertight Porsche clutches :o

Gotta love karma :wizard:
 
There is a luxury pre-owned shop here in town that specializes in $250K cars with holograms. I cringe!
 
bmw5541 said:
Okay, so last week I was driving to one of my apointments, and I drove by a dealership. As I am sitting in traffic, I am watching the dealer spraying down the cars outside with a pressure washer and wiping them dry without the use of soap a sponge. Now I know exactly why the dealer charges extra for the "swirl and waterspot package"(I got this quote from Luster).

What is the worst thing that you have seen a dealer do to a car?
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Every dealer I know has a company that comes out and does this for them. Usually they are charged $1 per car. The dealer I am at now has a company that is a mobile "detail" service they come out and spray and then use a bucket of water and wipe then dry with a chamois, atleast they have more then one chamois unlike the other companies. I have worked at 6 dealers now, Chevy, BMW and now Nissan and all do this.
 
Open.

Aside from that, I've seen way too many things especially at a local vw dealer going with a friend. Cars being dried with used shop towels.. yes shop towels that were just used to wipe off oily engine crap off the workers' hands. Saw a guy lifting a car up about 4-5 feet before someone ran across the garage yelling to STOPPP.... the car was being lifted by the rear only, guy forgot to put the front lift arms under, and was slowly crushing the front bumper.

So yea, open about sums it up haha.
 
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Aside from that, I've seen way too many things especially at a local vw dealer going with a friend. Cars being dried with used shop towels.. yes shop towels that were just used to wipe off oily engine crap off the workers' hands. Saw a guy lifting a car up about 4-5 feet before someone ran across the garage yelling to STOPPP.... the car was being lifted by the rear only, guy forgot to put the front lift arms under, and was slowly crushing the front bumper.

So yea, open about sums it up haha.
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^^^ OMG Don't tell me Bill has a brother in Chicago ^^^ :scared:

Welcome aboard Luster :D
 
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