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Jason Vance (Jason)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 02:50 am: | 
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http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19809
The power of the internet in full-force. Some moron has just lost his job... |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 08:42 am: |
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Wow.... and he was dumb enough to post what he did, hanging himself.... sheesh....
-L |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 08:51 am: |
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Wow. |
KJ
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:17 am: |
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Hmmm, that page seems to be down. Anyone care to elaborate?
Karen |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:24 am: |
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Karen,
The cliff notes are:
#1 Girl takes Cobra to dealer.
#2 Dealer tech takes Cobra on 140 mph test drive.
#3 Dealer tech brags about it on web to include talking about the girl and posting her license plate number.
#4 Girl sees web post.
#5 Girl is printing out web post and going to dealer today.
There ya have it, CLIFF notes version.
Paul |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:27 am: |
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A lady in San Antonio took her '03 SVT Cobra into the dealer for work (had a problem with the cats, wasn't making it's full potential power). Specifically asks them not to let any punks test drive it. (BTW, the dealer was NS Ford)
On a BBS, a tech at the shop posts that he took it out and ragged it on a nearby airstrip, up to 140mph, laughing about it, and even posted her license plate.
Needless to say, she and her husband found out, and, the tech was relieved of his employment.
What's so interesting is, it seems as if EVERY automobile-related BBS has heard of it now... BMW, Corvette, Discoveries (lol), Subarus, Pirate 4x4, etc. etc. etc., and even non-car-related ones like AR15.com....
Very interesting....
-L |
Leslie N. Bright (Leslie)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:28 am: |
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Dang, Paul beat me to it....
Anyway, it's not over yet, she has obtained legal assistance, the guy losing the job may just be the beginning....
lol....
-L |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:29 am: |
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I would definatley want some free stuff  |
KJ
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:41 am: |
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Oh dear lord, LOL. I hope that tech has some fall-back skills, because he's gonna need 'em. Clearly, typing is NOT one of his strong suits!
Karen |
John Stecz
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 10:42 am: |
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I had a friend that took his ZR-1 'vette to the local chevy dealer in San Antonio and a friend saw the tech doing burn-outs and stuff in it... He ended up getting new tires (not cheap) and a 100k mile warranty, which is prbably a good deal considering a ZR-1 short block is about $25k (and I'm not kidding) |
Justin Day (Polytropoi61)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 12:16 pm: |
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I'm always worried that the same thing is going to happen to me with my 96 disco...I take it to the shop and the next thing I see is the tech guys rodding it up and down the highway...you know right around the 130mph mark...oh wait...that doesn't happen to us...
justin |
Jason Vance (Jason)
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 01:19 pm: |
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Go back to the Mustangworld BB (this is linked in the first post of the svtperf. thread) where the tech first posted is wild romp in the car...the tech changed his Avatar title (though no Avatar) to "unemployed dumbass." |
Pipes
| | Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 01:29 pm: |
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That's messed up. |
Brian (Vannie)
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 12:30 pm: |
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Think just because you have a LR you are immune??
A Spin That's Unexpected From an Auto Repair Shop
Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer
October 28, 2000; Page B1
The trouble started with a funny idle at stoplights and escalated to a strange noise from the engine. So Barry and Cindy Parrish did what anyone else would do: They took their almost-new Land Rover Discovery to the dealer. Four days later, they still didn't know the source of the engine rumble. But they found out that their truck had quite an adventure while they thought technicians at Don Beyer's Land Rover in Alexandria were servicing it.
The Virginia State Police contacted the Fairfax County couple and told them that their vehicle was clocked at 83 mph on Interstate 81, just south of Roanoke--more than 240 miles away--on the way back to Northern Virginia from North Carolina. The Land Rover was impounded, and the driver is wanted by police.
"How many other people have taken their car in for service and had their car taken out to lunch, taken home, used for long trips out of state?" said Barry Parrish, 41, a construction manager. "The scary part is that we may never know. We wouldn't have found out about this if they hadn't gotten pulled over by the state police."
Experts who help motorists say the bizarre episode is almost unprecedented and represents a worst-case scenario for drivers everywhere: a vehicle left for service at a local dealership is driven almost 500 miles for personal use after a service adviser lent the vehicle to a neighbor over the weekend.
"I almost laughed because that just wasn't possible," said Cindy Parrish, 43. "We just came up with every scenario we could think of, and we just didn't understand it. What were they doing with our car, and what were they doing in our car? It made me furious. I felt violated."
Beyer, a former state lieutenant governor who owns four well-respected auto dealerships in Northern Virginia, placed blame for the incident on a "boneheaded" new employee who made a "terrible mistake." Beyer said this week that the service adviser was given permission to take the Land Rover home to find out what was wrong with it and later let his neighbor borrow the vehicle for what he thought would be a short trip to pick up a relative.
"This one new employee made a terrible decision and paid for it right away with his job," Beyer said. "In 27 years of business and after working on hundreds of thousands of cars, this is the first joy ride . . . that I know of."
Experts say it's not unusual for service technicians to test-drive vehicles that are having trouble, especially when an engine problem is hard to diagnose or shows up only at high speeds. In some extreme cases, technicians will take the cars home overnight--with the owner's permission--to try to figure out the problem.
But taking a vehicle 240 miles away for personal use? Unheard of.
"It's a standard procedure in dealerships that you don't take vehicles anywhere they shouldn't go, and you should never take a car out of the area," said Robert Livingstone, director of automotive services for AAA Mid-Atlantic. "We hear about some employees who get in accidents while road-testing, and there are some who think that they'll just go get lunch or run an errand when they're road-testing. That's where they get into trouble."
The National Motorists Association in Waunakee, Wis., suggests that consumers log their mileage before leaving a vehicle with a dealer and go over any test-driving parameters before leaving the service center.
The Parrishes feel that the dealership gave them the runaround: When they went to pick up their vehicle after the dealership had retrieved it, no one told them that it had been impounded. They noticed the extra 500 miles or so on the receipt, began to ask questions and then told a manager that they already knew what happened.
Beyer said that was a misunderstanding. He wasn't aware of the situation until shortly after they picked up their vehicle. Now the Parrishes and Beyer have turned to their lawyers. The Parrishes want $25,000 and any necessary repairs to the vehicle--the brakes were allegedly worn down and the radiator broke shortly after the vehicle was returned--and Beyer wants to give them $2,000 and unlimited repairs.
Cindy Parrish said she feels as if someone has invaded her personal space. The coffee ring on the center console and smudges on the windows show that someone "enjoyed having a good time in our car" and she "feels as if someone rifled through my underwear drawer."
"It's like me doing service work in your house and then sleeping in your bed and eating your food," Barry Parrish said |
Bob C.
| | Posted on Friday, September 27, 2002 - 07:55 pm: |
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Its fairly common for a service writer to drive a vehicle overnight on a recurring check engine light or some other hard to locate problem, for rovers, depending on the repair a "drive cycle" can be 15-20 miles or more (depends on engine temp and driving conditions) so up to 50 miles is within reason, but 500 no.
"the brakes were allegedly worn down and the radiator broke shortly after the vehicle was returned"
There is no way to waste brakes in 500 miles and how is that any different from every other disco II out there
Bob C. |
M. K. Watson (Lrover94)
| | Posted on Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 08:39 pm: |
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the truth in the matter is as long as there has been fast ass cars there has been fast ass test drives by service guys on the flip side who hasnt beaten the crap out of a car on a test drive?
mike w |
Gregg Smith (Discogregg)
| | Posted on Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 09:30 pm: |
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When did a Rover get classified as fast? It drips oil fast. That is about it!! |
Al Oliveira (Offroaddisco)
| | Posted on Saturday, September 28, 2002 - 10:37 pm: |
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It depreciates faster than most cars on the road. D90's excluded.
That guy was a idiot but I don't think driving a car like that to 140mph is beating the crap out of it. He just had no excuse to be taking a customers car out for a ride like that then slamming the customer in a public forum. I mean, if I took in my 540i/6 and had a complaint about something that happened at 130-150mph I would have no problems with a 130-150mph test drive as long as he wasn't doing burnouts and stuff. |
Phillip Perkinson (R0ver4x4)
| | Posted on Monday, September 30, 2002 - 10:10 am: |
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riiiiiiiiiight |
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