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Thu Sep 26, 2002 8:50 am
True Story - The year was 1990, my parents had a cherry 1986 Caddy Fleetwood they wanted to trade in and "down-size". Against MY advisement, they shopped domestic, and settled on a Olds 98.
Within the first month, it had several problems (toldja so Dad) and they took it to the dealer. It was there for the weekend. On Monday, my Dad and I went to pick it up. Not there. Two hours later, no car. We go to lunch while they sort it out. Four hours later, no car. Manager gets involved. One of the techs had called in sick. They called him, then sent another tech to his house. He's not there.
Long story short, after my Dad goes ballistic in the showroom and starts throwing things and swearing and running potential customers off, the manager brings us into his office. Gives us a loaner for the night. Next day, manager calls. Tech had gone to two AA meetings (a condition of his probation) that weekend, then on Sunday afternoon he went on a 2-day booze and drug bender IN OUR CAR - now he's in jail, car's in impound.
Manager apologizes, blah blah. Dad tells him to kiss his a$$ - he doesn't want the car back, no telling what's been done to it, and threatens to call the PD from the mgr's office to report it stolen.
They can't find a replacement car identical to ours, but offer a different color, different interior, etc. Dad's being a hard-a$$, tells the mgr to F-off. Dad's cool.
Dealership wound up finding a replacement car in Vegas. Sent us up there to retrieve it, gave Dad 100K warranty, 2 nights in Vegas, $500 spending $ and free maintenance for 3 years.