shiftynj
10-01-2009, 06:05 PM
Anybody uncover the Secret Lost Non-BS Dealer in NJ?
Been to three different places and it seems like everybody wants to sell you services you didn't ask for even though vehicle runs fine and makes vague threats about the warranty being voided if you don't let them do the work. I took my '07 Pat in because the HVAC is dripping into the car and then the fan quit. That's all warranty work but then they're telling me my fuel injectors are clogged (despite the truck running fine and having no drop in MPG... what do I know, I can't see in there!) and that they have to change the transaxle fluid and I was a bad boy for not doing it once already.
I get the fluids and filters changed on time at a local place and save my receipts. Manual says fluid is to be "checked" every 12k miles, doesn't say change it this quickly.
Just seems fishy to me. Wondering if anybody knows a good place that doesn't try to gauge how much you know about cars (in my case, not much) and then sees how much they can get away with. I didn't buy a vehicle with a lifetime warranty so it could be used as a club on me for the rest of the time I own it.
Been to three different places and it seems like everybody wants to sell you services you didn't ask for even though vehicle runs fine and makes vague threats about the warranty being voided if you don't let them do the work. I took my '07 Pat in because the HVAC is dripping into the car and then the fan quit. That's all warranty work but then they're telling me my fuel injectors are clogged (despite the truck running fine and having no drop in MPG... what do I know, I can't see in there!) and that they have to change the transaxle fluid and I was a bad boy for not doing it once already.
I get the fluids and filters changed on time at a local place and save my receipts. Manual says fluid is to be "checked" every 12k miles, doesn't say change it this quickly.
Just seems fishy to me. Wondering if anybody knows a good place that doesn't try to gauge how much you know about cars (in my case, not much) and then sees how much they can get away with. I didn't buy a vehicle with a lifetime warranty so it could be used as a club on me for the rest of the time I own it.