re: Dirty Car Dealer Tricks

I assume they’d blow ozone from the filter area through the vents…or some cleaning agent.

I'll go in for an oil change, get a list of recommended services and then send my vehicle to a trusted mechanic to get everything done.

I bet the dealer is losing at the track

My elderly mother has bought her last four cars at a well known Metairie Honda dealer. She brought her car in to get serviced and her dome light had stopped working, so she mentioned that to the service advisor. After awhile he comes back and tells her that they checked and the wiring going to the dome light must be faulty and they would have to trace the wire and yadda yadda. All at the hourly rate, so might cost a couple of hundred dollars. She did not authorize the work because of the additional expense.

A few days later I'm at her house and she mentions it to me. I go to her car, remove the dome light bulb, go to AutoZone, buy one just like it, put it in, and the light works again.

So this service advisor was going to replace a bulb and charge her a few hundred to "fix it".

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but mostly because I lowered it, put spacers on, and added some camber bolts up front.

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Any chance you from new iberia?

Was the alignment checked? If so and it’s out you are going to burn through tires quickly.

I sold an F-150 to Best Chevrolet that had 160k miles on it, a main seal leak between the engine and transmission, and the steering rack was going in and out. I told them about all of this and they still sold the truck way faster than they could have fixed it. I saw it on the lot a few days later and never again after a week.

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I don’t have a problem with any of those…just say no if you don’t want. They are real services offered…

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Found the idiot who'd say yes to those "Services" and likely felt like he was getting a bargain.

P.T. Barnum was right "No man ever went broke overestimating the ignorance of the American public".

Wife called from Honda and said they wanted to replace the power steering fluid because it was dark and dirty. That’s funny, I said, we replaced the pump and the fluid last month when the pump went out on a vacation trip. I paid extra for the damned new fluid. They had no response to getting caught in an obvious lie, which I confirmed by checking the pristine fluid when she got home.

The local Honda place was notorious for pushing to sell additional bullshite like coolant flush and transmission fluid replacement every time you went in.

Switched to Toyota, and their dealer here is completely different. They never push any extras, and they’ve told me I didn’t need some things I asked about. We are on our third Toyota, and we will never buy another Honda unless a new dealer with a better reputation opens nearby.