A litle story about my 2001 Insight
I bought the car from a Chevy dealership last month, after seeing an add in autotrader. Silver 2001 Insight for $15,850 w/ 50,000 miles. I figured that a Chevy dealership wouldn't want an Insight on their lot for very long, and I was looking for a 3rd car that got great gas mileage. I had been looking at TDI VW's and Civic Hybrids, but the VW's retained too much value, and the Civic Hybrids were boring.
So, I went to the dealership, and they had no idea what the hell the insight was. I explained everything to the salesman while I was on my test drive, since he didn't understand why the CVT wasn't shifting. I ended up going back and forth with them on the price for 2 weeks, and eventually they delivered the car to my house and I paid $11,888 out the door, taxes title and all. Not a bad deal.
So, after driving for a week, I noticed some surging and figured it was the egr valve, since Honda can't manage to design one that doesn't go to hell. Idelayed in taking the car in for another 2 weeks because my commute/schedule doesn't lend itself well to getting to the dealership during open hours, and I was waiting on installing a new radiator/fan in my 300M.
I finally took the car in and mentioned the surging problem, as well as the door locks not working from the inside, and the misaligned steering wheel.
Yadda yadda yadda, the car is broken into 4 days later while being fixed at the Honda dealership that the chevy people use. I managed to negotiate a payoff amount for all of my electronics that were stolen, but that's not what this post is about.
I went in this weekend for a status update, since I never get straight answers on the phone. I asked for a printout of everything that was fixed for the surging, and here is a transcript :
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Costumer Story : Customer states when lightly pressing on gas pedal car shakes and feels like it's about to stall, advised egr possible failure, check and advise.
Found EGR valve bad, wrong spark plugs, spark plug gap, wrong engine oil, wrong trans fluid, low coolant, low PS.
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Tthe Honda tech thinks they just threw in whatever random crap they had sitting around.
I called the Chevy dealer and asked them if the were aware of all of this, which they were. The service advisor informed me that the fluids had all been changed, and it wasn't an issue. I told the service advisor that it WAS an issue, and that I wasn't sure how I was going to handle this. They informed me that "if anything were to go wrong, it already would have"
So, that's nice and fun. I still don't have my car, and it will be 2 weeks ago Friday that I dropped it off.
I bought the car from a Chevy dealership last month, after seeing an add in autotrader. Silver 2001 Insight for $15,850 w/ 50,000 miles. I figured that a Chevy dealership wouldn't want an Insight on their lot for very long, and I was looking for a 3rd car that got great gas mileage. I had been looking at TDI VW's and Civic Hybrids, but the VW's retained too much value, and the Civic Hybrids were boring.
So, I went to the dealership, and they had no idea what the hell the insight was. I explained everything to the salesman while I was on my test drive, since he didn't understand why the CVT wasn't shifting. I ended up going back and forth with them on the price for 2 weeks, and eventually they delivered the car to my house and I paid $11,888 out the door, taxes title and all. Not a bad deal.
So, after driving for a week, I noticed some surging and figured it was the egr valve, since Honda can't manage to design one that doesn't go to hell. Idelayed in taking the car in for another 2 weeks because my commute/schedule doesn't lend itself well to getting to the dealership during open hours, and I was waiting on installing a new radiator/fan in my 300M.
I finally took the car in and mentioned the surging problem, as well as the door locks not working from the inside, and the misaligned steering wheel.
Yadda yadda yadda, the car is broken into 4 days later while being fixed at the Honda dealership that the chevy people use. I managed to negotiate a payoff amount for all of my electronics that were stolen, but that's not what this post is about.
I went in this weekend for a status update, since I never get straight answers on the phone. I asked for a printout of everything that was fixed for the surging, and here is a transcript :
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Costumer Story : Customer states when lightly pressing on gas pedal car shakes and feels like it's about to stall, advised egr possible failure, check and advise.
Found EGR valve bad, wrong spark plugs, spark plug gap, wrong engine oil, wrong trans fluid, low coolant, low PS.
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Tthe Honda tech thinks they just threw in whatever random crap they had sitting around.
I called the Chevy dealer and asked them if the were aware of all of this, which they were. The service advisor informed me that the fluids had all been changed, and it wasn't an issue. I told the service advisor that it WAS an issue, and that I wasn't sure how I was going to handle this. They informed me that "if anything were to go wrong, it already would have"
So, that's nice and fun. I still don't have my car, and it will be 2 weeks ago Friday that I dropped it off.