Blu-ray.com Car Maintenance, Repair, Detailing, and DIY Thread

[LeAnn]

Indeed... Purple tint is not sexy...

Update on my car...

So I dropped it off Wednesday at about 12:30, took a half day at work to do this since they said I needed to drop it off before 2pm... Got a really poo-poo corolla rental (Honda paid) that was bare bones and made a weird sound... Had to fuel it up which was irritating. Honda told me they would have the car ready at around 2pm, 3 at the latest, but to make sure I got the rental back by 2pm so they could avoid the 2 day charge.
No big deal.
12pm Thursday Honda calls and lets me know they are JUST starting to work on the car, my mechanic is not available and before I could get all flustered, he told me he had the foreman on it, so not to worry.... BUT that the car would not be ready until 4pm. I reminded him of the 2pm deadline at the rental and he told me to bring it back at 2:30 no issues... riiiight...

SO, I drop the rental off around 2pm, they take me to Honda and of course the car is not ready. I am naturally not happy since I did not get a call until Noon telling me of the changes, and so they give me a voucher for a free oil change, no expiration date.

I have to pick up my cat at 5pm from the complete opposite side of town, so I am not happy about any of these delays...

4pm rolls around, and they are still trying to bleed the brake lines but are having "issues" i get the whole "no worries ma'am, I will have it out in less than 20 minutes" 20 minutes roll by and I am now pacing, so they give me a voucher for a free balance and tire rotation.

4:30 comes and I am REALLY getting unhappy and lo-and behold they come up with a loaner car for me. YAY! about time, and they did say that they should have put me in a loaner car sooner.

Another corolla, this time with only 1/8 of a tank of gas... so now I have to rush onto the highway, get off to get fuel, then rush into downtown for my cat.

Friday I am finally able to get my car, they called and had to work on it until 8pm Thursday to get it right. I guess my car is sensitive... haha. anywho...

Got another free oil change out of the deal, so that is 2 free oil changes and 1 free tire balance and rotation. For some reason my dealership charges $50 for the hybrid oil changes... so that will buffer the $1517.01 cost of the repair.

Also, now I am considering an extended warranty because I would take a heavy loss on the trade is as now I have had 1 collision from the stupid girl on campus, and 2 from the stupid people in the garage.

so that is my rant/dilemma