Ken
Houston,#2Author of original report
Sat, March 07, 2009
The day that I finally got my car back, it died on me when I stopped to check my mail box. The car was dead as a door nail. I had to have it towed to the dealership. The next day, I got a call from the dealership, asking me if I'd recently had body work performed on the car. I explained what had happened and they told me that there were connections that hadn't been properly attached and the dealership attached them for me. They added that there were some items which hadn't been properly repaired. They then sited that the electronic valve stem covers that convey the tire pressure to the car's computer that alerts me when tire pressure drops below specs, had been removed and replaced with plain valve stem covers which don't relay the information, rendering the feature useless. They told me that they could replace them as they were in stock. Each one cost $108.00. That's a total of $432.00 + tax. I opted to moniter it myself. In addition, they told me that the body shop hadn't protected the chrome exhaust tips during the welding process which caused flecks of matter to pepper the pipes and had started to rust the chrome. These chrome tips are not replacable as they are an integral part of the exhaust system and I'd have to replace the mufflers as well. These mufflers are designed to last the life of the car. They will continue to rust as time goes by. Why does this hell have to continue? What did I do to deserve this? All I was doing was sitting at a red light, and it's manifested into a consumer's personal hell!