Good post Jon!!...............Bravo, I'm with you on that one. You always here the
bad, not always the good. Basically we all agree that dealers in general should all
be lined up and shot. I had so many problems with dealers not honoring warrenty
work, and getting the run around. That I finally just gave up on ever going back to
the dealer for anything and have all my work done by my garage. No BS anymore, just
straight answers and good mechanics.
"psychonaut"
Jon Steiger wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 Dester243@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Sometimes, i look back and wonder if buying a dakota was a very bad choice..
> > MY front lower right control arm was screwed. took them about 3 hours to fix.
> > lucky for me my dealer had it in stock. Otherwise, i'd receive a phone call
> > like the last one, "oh, i'm sorry, I didn't know you wanted the truck back
> > as soon as possible.." lucky for me i called in that afternoon. I dropped it
> > off at 7 in the morning, waited in a 45 minute line (a bunch of caravans in
> > front of me) and after calling in at 1230ish "nope, still haven't had the
> > time to look at it yet" but anywayz, i wonder how i got carried off.....
> > Does anyone else wonder why if dakotas are such a great truck, then why is
> > this whole DML filled with problems?
> > -Dester
>
> Its just the nature of the beast... When you get a bunch of
> people together, some of them are bound to have problems. Its
> sort of like the airline business... All you ever hear about are the
> few airliners that crash every year. You never hear about the millions
> of flights that land safely. Same thing for this list. If everyone
> posted a message every time they drove their truck without having
> any problems, we'd be swamped! The "problems" posts would be
> absolutely buried.
>
> Brand loyalty notwithstanding, when you have a piece of machinery
> as complicated as an automobile and you subject it to the unknowns
> and the variables of the real world, you are going to have problems.
> I don't care if its a Chevy, Ford, Dodge, whatever. Eventually,
> something is going to break. Since this is a great forum for
> advice, there are natrually a lot of posts about problems people
> are having with their vehicles.
>
> Sounds to me like most of your problem may lie with your
> dealer. If they're not making you happy, you might want to
> try someone else.
>
> -Jon-
>
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