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2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Seems like a 2nd opinion would have been a good idea for your friends.
Sometimes you can disconnect the battery for a period of time to reset things.
Hope your friends got the extended warranty Gold this time.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
2025 Ram 1500 Laramie 4x4 / 2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Icon I6L Golf Cart
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
And, yes, get off my lawn!
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
It would be much more practical to buy from a dealer that discounts the Chrysler additional warranty. Usually the company warranty added over the long powertrain warranty provides bumper to bumper warranty for choices up to nearly 100K miles.
BTW:
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
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BTW....I saw that ad on TV and they say...."In a Nationwide survey Chevy came first" Who knows what survey it is, which models are involved, etc. Why don't they name the survey, maybe it was GM dealers.
I once took an entrepreneur course and they said it is good to make a little badge that says you won a contest even if it is something you made up, or if it is a relative for example, and say you were voted best......do this on your brochures.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Like Driver said, some people have either no time or ability to do it themselves, so they are at the dealers mercy
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
'24 Chevy Blazer EV 2LT
What's the catch? The warranty is non-transferable and the vehicle must serviced at Boch's based upon the guidelines set forth in the service manual. I believe the 20/200,000 warranty program is available on all brands sold at Boch's multiple brand dealerships.
Now, that's what I call a profit center.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Think GM during the crisis...generous warranty, got nothing to lose.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
I notice even Honda offers extended warranties for their cars, so they must find they're not infallable and able to walk on water like the Civic in the picture tried. I haven't shopped but I'll bet Mercedes offers warranties.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
i find the USNews info as a good barometer...I believe they use about 5 sources and then blend them together. They rate cars on a few basic criteria.
About the GM survey.....some GM cars have been very reliable lately, Buick, Impala, Silverado. Good, glad to hear it. Most cars are getting better at improving reliability, there is a group that are all pretty close now.
The ad is a good one in that it does counter the myth.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/01/16/table-the-highest-paid-massachusetts-workers/nZ5wZ42sMH1T8m2tZZ17bN/story.html
Here are some details:
Covered Components
Maximum Care is an exclusionary extended warranty, often referred to as a "Bumper-to-Bumper warranty" and as such if it's not excluded, it's covered. The only parts and labor not covered are:
Maintenance services and items used in such services.
Glass, plastic lenses.
Body and paint items, including soft trim.
Wear items such as manual clutch assembly, brake pads, shoes, rotors, drums and belts are not covered at any time.
Snow plows, winches and trailer hitches
One-Time Plan Transfer
Maximum Care allows you to transfer your extended warranty one time in the event you sell your vehicle (a transfer fee of $50 applies in most states).
Coverage Limit
It is important to realize that, should a covered component of the vehicle fail, the maximum benefit amount will be the total cost of the repairs per visit less the deductible, or the cash value of the vehicle, whichever is less! The cash value of the vehicle will be determined as current average retail value at the time of the covered repair as listed in the current NADA Used Car Pricing Guide. If at any time the repair costs for covered component(s) exceed the vehicle’s cash value, the final plan benefit will be Mopar’s payment of the vehicle’s cash value rather than the repair costs
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2019/01/16/chevrolet-ad-stop-airing-after-challenges-ford-toyota-honda/2585826002/
What I find is hilarious after decades of some of the other 3 companies advertising in obtuse ways inferring things that weren't necessarily true about their cars but trying to imbed them into the minds of the viewers, they're upset when someone uses DATA to advertise. But sometimes, one has to use the same techniques the others use against them. It's always interesting in things now how some don't like it when other parties use the same techniques.
The only hesitancy I have is the 5% return rate on the survey by the French company, all disclosed in the link GM used, because it seems low to me. But using various techniques to verify validity of the returns as a sample must have been satisfactory. AND the JDP survey verified the same DATA. I suspect a return rate of 5% is typical for a mail survey.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The history of how they let Steve Jobs have their developing operating system for nothing. It was called Local Integrated Software Architecture (or LISA, for short). There was a false narrative going around that Steve Jobs named the operating system after his daughter.....UNTRUE....Xerox named it LISA and then gave it to Jobs.
Xerox thought their patents for “xerography” would sustain them. They really didn’t see the onslaught of PCs and personal printers coming. They made a couple of stabs at it. I was part of their STAR team, which was a system for centralized word processing connected via Ethernet (hard wired networking) to Xerox copiers. I did well in that division, first as a Technical Rep, and later as a sales rep. We were competing with IBM’s selectric (ball based print wheel). Ours was what we called a “daisy wheel”, which was a round wheel with “spokes” that had each character represented, struck by a digital “punch”. It was faster and the print on paper looked better than IBM’s Selectric.
Xerox was also at the forefront of Laser Printing, but abandoned that technology, too. They totally whiffed on the success of WANG (now defunct), Osborne (also, defunct) as world processors and personal computing.
They even had the predessors for spreadsheets, slides, and data management (called “QDocs, Qcalc, Qpreso”).
In brief, what would have continued their success, they gave away, which doomed them.
All that said, they taught me a lot in the 10 years I was with them, regardless of how stingy they were. I was setting up and giving 5-6 demos/day in our offices, and closed 70% of those presentations on the spot. We’re talking a minimum of $100K just to get an entry level system. I was living in tall cotton.
I was eventually lured away by a much more generous company (Control Data...now defunct). Career blossomed in tech from that point forward.
If it’s an outside agency, I’m thinking GM’s going to want a refund.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
2018 430i Gran Coupe
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
May be visiting a few Boch dealers this weekend with the GF (unlikely I'll get her to Ferrari!), time to replace the totaled 328xi. Poor Bimmer, it didn't deserve such an early demise.
'21 Dark Blue/Black Audi A7 PHEV (mine); '22 White/Beige BMW X3 (hers); '20 Estoril Blue/Oyster BMW M240xi 'Vert (Ours, read: hers in 'vert weather; mine during Nor'easters...)
"The definition of reliability, Chevrolet says in the document, "is the percentage of vehicle owners who reported they have not repaired or replaced any vehicle components in the past 12 months (excluding fluids, filters and those related to accident/collision)."
It could be that Chevrolet owners are more forgetful. Or, Toyota/Honda owners remember replacing a part more since it is so unexpected. And, they chose one particular year to base it on, 2015! What about other years?
The article says:
"Consumer Reports, which surveys its readers every year for a reliability study, found in 2018 that Toyota was the second most-reliable brand after its sister brand, Lexus. Honda finished 15th and Ford finished 18th. All three brands were ahead of Chevrolet at 23rd."
On every report I can recall Toyota and Lexus were at or near the top. According to CR Chevy was far behind the competition.......why go back to 2015 to make your point?
"But J.D. Power's 2018 dependability rankings, which are more similar to the study Chevy commissioned for its reliability ad in that it looks at 2015 model year vehicles, ranked Chevrolet above Toyota, Honda and Ford"
Once again....why 2015?.
I didn't believe the ad when I saw it on TV, and we all know how statistics can be manipulated. Or, maybe, more correct to say, the ad may or may not be true...but, does it mean anything....not really?
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
'24 Chevy Blazer EV 2LT
WHY THE CHEVY RELIABILITY AD DOESN'T AMOUNT TO MUCH and is very - defensive!
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
https://www.cringely.com/2018/02/26/win-lose-wall-street-screwed-middle-class/
Lawyers arguing in court present legal theories—their ideas of how the world and the law intersect, and why this should mean their client is right and the other side is wrong. Proof of one legal theory over another comes in the form of a verdict or court decision. As a culture we have many theories about institutions and behaviors that aren’t so clear-cut in their validity tests (no courtroom, no jury) yet we cling to these theories to feel better about the ways we have chosen to live our lives. In American business, especially, one key theory is that the purpose of corporate enterprise is to “maximize shareholder value.” Some take this even further and claim that such value maximization is the only reason a corporation exists. Watch CNBC or Fox Business News long enough and you’ll begin to believe this is God’s truth, but it’s not. It’s just a theory.
It’s not even a very old theory, in fact, and only dates back to 1976. That’s when Michael Jensen and William Meckling of the University of Rochester published a paper, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure” in The Journal of Financial Economics. Their theory, in a nutshell, was that there was an inherent conflict in business between owners (shareholders) and managers, and that this conflict had to be resolved in favor of the owners, who after all owned the business; and the best way to do that was to find a way to align those interests by linking managerial compensation to owner success. Link executive compensation primarily to the stock price, the economists argued, and this terrible conflict would be resolved, making business somehow, well, better.
This idea appears to be more of a solution in search of a problem. If the CEO is driving the company into bankruptcy or spends too much money on his own perks, for example, the previous theory of business (and the company bylaws) said shareholders could vote the bum out. But that’s so mundane, so imprecise for economists who see a chance to elegantly align interests and make the system work smoothly and automatically. The only problem is the alignment of interests suggested by Jensen and Meckling works just as well—maybe even better—if management just cooks the books and lies. And so shareholder value maximization gave us companies like Enron (Jeffrey Skilling in prison), Tyco International (Dennis Kozlowski in prison), and WorldCom (Bernie Ebbers in prison).
It’s just a theory, remember.
The Jensen and Meckling paper shook the corporate world because it presented a reason to pay executives more—a lot more—if they made the stock rise. Not if they made a better product, cured a disease, or helped defeat a national enemy. All they had to do was make their stock go up. Through the 1960s and 1970s, average CEO compensation in America per dollar of corporate earnings had gone down 33 percent as companies became more efficient at making money. But now there was a (dubious) reason for compensation to go up, up, up, which it has done consistently for 40+ years, until now when we think this is the way the corporate world is supposed to work—even its raison d’etre.
But in that same time real corporate performance has gone down. The average rate of return on invested capital for public companies in the United States is a quarter of what it was in 1965. Sure, productivity has gone up, but that can be done through automation or by beating more work out of employees (more on that later). Jensen and Meckling created the very problem they purported to solve—a problem that really hadn’t existed in the first place.