And the dealership didn’t even know that... WTF. Who can you trust to work on these cars???
Received my 18 Shelby 350R and the rims are messed....
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I thought this was a joke thread. Its upsetting the the stealership isn't aware of the cars features. And the owner should know the details of said car as well. I think ill go kill bugs and hit apexes to make me happy now.
I haven't found a dealership yet that I trust and actually knows anything about these cars. I have recently found a good performance shop locally that knows what they're doing, had it not been for incompetent dealerships locally I never would've found the shop I now use.
I bought a ‘17 a week and a half ago and had the same question. It’s just the front wheels, right? The only person at the dealership that knew was the GM...because he has one. I was beginning to think the wheels were swapped.
It's kinda hard to know 100% of everything about every vehicle Ford produces, or any manufacturer for that matter. Not to mention, it changes yearly at the very least and sometimes changes mid-year.
For instance, I like to think I have a pretty good handle on the majority of Ford products, however I struggle when it comes to identifying Transit Connect and Transit body codes. See below.
go shake down some middle schooler for his ritalin and get to studyin!
seriously though that list is ridiculous
Export to excel and track what you have in inventory and when someone asks for one of those codes you can filter that information and see what you got. If you don't have that specific model have a separate column that closely matches it. Only if it's worth it to you.
Or maybe your POS system does that for you already. Then why would you want to remember all of that, lol
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I don't need to track it any other way than I do. The body code is in the VIN, so I can do a quick CTRL + F and search for whatever I'm looking for to see if I have them or not.
The reason I need to remember it, is when a customer comes in to order a Transit/Transit Connect, I need to know the body code in order to get it.
In that case, a fat finger could cost a lot of money in a lost sale.
Is there not a sales order or purchase order produced when you're prompted to order a customer specify car? Meaning you will get all the data you need from the sales order or purchase order to find the code you're looking for when putting in the request.
Am I over simplifying this or is it really that hard to order from the manufacturer?
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I take it back to the dealership and see if they will replace it under the warranty.
They have abbreviations of what the model is...some are a lot easier to discern than others haha
I dont expect the Dealership or the techs to know everything. My post was related to an experience I had when I brought my 2014 gt500 in because it was overheating. Next morning the dealership calls and informs me that my motor has a blown head gasket and it will be $6200 best case to repair but they wont know until the pull the motor. Obviously I question what tests and trouble shooting they did to confirm this, service rep reassures me that their SVT tech surely performed all necessary tests. I ended up having the car towed to the performance shop I now exclusively use, several days later they contact me stating leak down and compression test showed the motor was healthy and that the problem was the cooling fans and IC pump where shot and it would be $500 to repair. The dealership only performed one test on my car which was a block tester, no leak down or compression performed, and no trouble shooting of the cooling system was done. Had I trusted the dealer I would've paid $6200 and still had a car that was overheating because they missed what was causing it.
Not disagreeing with you. Unfortunately every one is a human and make mistakes. Luckily it only costed you $500!
Not sure if I agree on it being a mistake, It was either pure laziness or dishonesty on the dealerships part.
Well being lazy is making a mistake... I've seen people in all professions stretch to the truth a bit to put themselves in a favorable position, but not quite like that.
It was a mistake, luckily it was caught.
The only problem with black is that it absorbs heat, unlike white, which doesn't. A black ceramic coating would have provided some protection - even though the black would absorb heat, the ceramic layer itself is a poor heat conductor. Bottom line - a white coating provides more protection.
carbon fiber wheels on a relatively affordable production car and we're gonna have a bitch fit about the color of a thermal coating.
Reminds me of the Louis CK bit about flying and people bitching about having to sit on the plane and wait at the terminal - "Hey Orville, just forget the whole ****ing thing, they're gonna make you wait on the plane for a few minutes".
"Everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy"
Reminds me of the Louis CK bit about flying and people bitching about having to sit on the plane and wait at the terminal - "Hey Orville, just forget the whole ****ing thing, they're gonna make you wait on the plane for a few minutes".
"Everything is amazing right now and nobody’s happy"
Let's go with "unattractive". "Ugly" is what the bill to replace a damaged one would be.
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