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Jamie (Rover_puppy)
Member
Username: Rover_puppy
Post Number: 213
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 11:15 am: | 
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I did make that trip to my dealership Wedenesday afternoon. I discovered the most amazing thing. My dealership has a president.
I told him that I was thankful that I was able to negotiate a lower bulk labor rate by being flexible and "on call" for my rover to be brough in during "slower" periods. I also expressed my extreme (to say the least) disappointment that a dealership that sold 200,000+ Rolls Royce automobiles and catered to special needs of those customers -- they could not complete my rover in a 4 month time frame? I told him I was very sad that my planned departure date to head west slowly had come and gone - that I had made extensive plans to arrive in Moab by Sept 6.
I was even able to show him the work that I had been attempting to do myself since I had not been able to get it done at or thru my dealership. The amazing thing was that he seemed to care. He told me that they WOULD finish my rover. I almost fainted at the MINISCULE hourly labor rate he told me that he would use to finish the work. There was talk of getting it in this coming Tuesday Sept 2 (after the Labor Day holiday) to get work going.
I was surprised to receive a phone message late Wednesday requesting that I get my rover ready, all parts in it, along with all instructions, and they would pick it up yesterday morning - leaving me a real live D2 loaner. Needless to say, I was thrilled -- stayed up ALL NIGHT Wednesday getting everything together.
My list of things to finish had 28 items on it. Biggest job was install of snorkel, skid plates to smallest job was putting a few parts (like screws) back that I had removed trying to do work myself. A few of the items did contain "sub-jobs" (electrical routing requests to isolate certain areas of my rover) - but even those should be a piece of cake for someone who knows what they are doing.
I can't tell you how relieved I was to watch my rover drive off yesterday. The instructions to my techs had lots of "cut and pastes" from all of you on Dweb and also a few photos that you had posted to help me understand. There was talk of having my rover done by Wednesday. We'll see, I sure hope so - I told the president that I was AFRAID to begin hoping again that they might finish it. I actually had 12 hours of much NEEDED sleep. I'll keep you posted.
THANKS AGAIN for all your help. Jamie |
michael burt (Mikeyb)
Senior Member
Username: Mikeyb
Post Number: 477
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2003 - 03:18 pm: |
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good luck jamie...! |
Pedro (Discoverys)
Member
Username: Discoverys
Post Number: 42
Registered: 08-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 08:21 pm: |
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Jamie,
How is the Rover doing???? |
Jamie (Rover_puppy)
Senior Member
Username: Rover_puppy
Post Number: 266
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 04:42 pm: |
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They are still working away at it. Doing a great job - being perfectionists so I can't complain at all. Thanks for asking! (btw, I posted pics of skid plate install on Discovery tech section) Whew, making progress 
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Alex Cabrera (Alexcabrera)
Member
Username: Alexcabrera
Post Number: 140
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 12:46 am: |
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!sweet! |