Bruce Aaron Hefner wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> Was just wondering if anyone else has had a similar incident with
> their local Dodge dealership, this is what happened: Saw that my local
> dealership (Courtesy Chrysler Plymouth Dodge in Dalton, GA) had A Durango
> in stock, so I stopped in and asked for a test drive, told them I was just
> looking around at different trucks/sport utes and wanted to see how it
> drove, their reply" are you planning to buy right now", i told them no, I
> want to test out everything first, want to see how different ones drive
> and handle reponse" It drives great, it's a new truck" (Well, Duh, but
> that's not what i asked). Then they came up with "Our Insurance doesn't
> allow us to let anyone under 21 have a test drive" so then i asked if I
> could just ride in it while one of them drove, their reponse "No, not
> unless your planning to buy right now, we're trying to keep the miles
> down" Which is a crock if you ask me, because all they do is add the
> number of miles on it to the warranty, I know when my brother bought a new
> truck it already had 150 miles on it, all they did was bump warranty to
> last till it had 36,150 miles on it. So I finally just said fine,
> whatever, and walked out. It just really pissed me off, because they just
> kept blowing me off. They might not realize it but they just lost a lot
> of business, because I'll never buy anything from them now, and I plan to
> own several CC products over the years, none of which they'll earn
> anything off of. Later-
>
> Bruce
Being younger ( I am assuming that you are too), I have experienced this with
individual dealerships (my local Ford dealership as a matter of fact). I
think it is isolated to individual dealers. Sometimes they are touchy with
new vehicles. I haven't had the nuts to go up and ask my local dealer to
drive the new Durango....and they have let me drive just about anything else.
I have a feeling, though, that the Durango will drive a helluva lot like a
Dakota.......
My revenge is to stop in with the new vehicle I just bought from a neighboring
dealer and point out that they could of had my business....my local Ford
dealer has missed out on two new vehicles that I have purchased.
Pete
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