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Anybody ever see where people replaced the clear high beam sealed-beam units on their cars with yellow ones? It looks weird!
I see a few older Mercedes with yellow, large seal-beam headlamps in their grill. One may be the 300D turbo, gold, that I see driven by a little, little old lady who always wears a hat and is dressed impeccably but 20 years ago in style. I've seen her for a couple of decades now and can't figure out where she lives.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Fog is very common and in many locations a very serious problem in that country.
Your negative comment about "credibility" wasn't warranted.
I lived there for three years, got to know the culture well, and it certainly doesn't do justice to a great country with that kind of bigotry.
BTW, we bought a couple of high end Peugeot bicycles while living there and still have them.
They have yellow headlights too!
Oh, wait. I seem to remember that Rocky might think that Roger was less than perfect...
LOL!!!!Thanks, now I have diet pepsi running out of my nose and all over my laptop:)
Also, Brenner Cadillac - the dealer that sold you the Brougham - has closed down its Harrisburg East location and merged with Sutliff Hummer on the Carlisle Pike. Another sign of the times...
What about your new car?
(moral obligation over)...This man was clearly a beancounter at heart and that was why he was bad at his job in the automotive industry. Purchases are often emotional rather than objective and the rebadges typical of his reign through the eighties eroded the aura of individuality each of the brands had which brings us to where we are today where people don't know what a Pontiac, Buick, etc are.
Anyway, the guy shows me a DTS Performance with just about everything on it. I took it out for a spin and I fell in love with it. I especially liked the XM radio, a cool feature a co-worker of mine had on his 2004 Honda Accord. Well, one thing led to another and I bought the car. I got a pretty decent trade for my Seville and put down a decent deposit and drove off.
The car is a 2007 Cadillac DTS Performance. It is Black Raven with Ebony Tehama leather. It has XM radio, nav, built-in telephone, heated and cooled massage seats, ultrasonic parking assist, and is my first car ever with a moon roof. It even has a electrically operated sun shade in the rear window. All in all, the car is so well-optioned it makes my loaded Seville look like a plain Jane. Shoot, it's got many other features to numerous to list here such as power fold-in mirrors so I don't have to get out of the car and fold them in so I don't smack them against the sides of the garage door. It's got Rainsense wipers and the heated washer fluid ala the Buick Lucerne. To be brutally honest, it is overkill and I probably won't use a lot of the car's features, though they are cool things to show off to your friends the first time.
It's got a 5-year/50K-mile bumper-to bumper warranty and a 5-year/100K-mile powertrain warranty. I did get the gap insurance coverage as well.
I was a little mad at myself for going overboard on the car as I get really bad buyer's remorse every time I buy a new car. Buying the car was like having a really great time in Vegas the night before, but waking up the next morning with a hangover, a fresh tattoo, and married to a showgirl. I'm like, "Oh, man! What did I do to myself?" Of course, I remember feeling the same way about my Brougham almost 20 years-ago, but I don't now regret my decision. I am getting over it and starting to enjoy my new ride.
The guy might be the worst CEO, of all time and those of you that feel like I do feel he is to blame more than any other executive at GM, for a past that still haunts them to this day !!!!
The guy is a greedy self serving mental midget and Michael Moore, exposed the truth in "Roger and Me"
-Rocky
haven't you heard, GM doesn't honor it's warranties !!
Should have bought a Toyota, Honda or Hyundai if you want
a repair made under warranty.............oh, but I forgot ;
these brands don't break down.............they know how to
manufacture them properly.
If you think other manufactors back theirproducts tell that to the thousands of camry owners who have engine sludge and shoddy transmissions. Last I knew the tundra, is experiencing it's fair shair of issues and Honda, recalled a bunch of vehicles earlier this year.
Do you have something to complain about ? Sure..... But others have given you a couple of fix idea's. I say try another Saturn, dealer when you get a chance. I'm a bit surprised the dealer hasn't made it right with you. I assume you contacted your salesman, and expressed how unhappy you are ?
-Rocky
-Rocky
why they put a sunroof on the car....so you can get in that way
and not have to SEE the defect. Yes I have tried the dealers,
Saturn Customer Service and BBB Arbitration. Since Saturn
claims it's a design/manufacturing defect common to all Auras,
Arbitration can not order a recall. If it was ONLY a defect on
MY car, they would fix it. Let's start talking sense here please;
"since you can only see it when you open the doors " makes it
OK I guess !! Want to buy my car ????
mentioned..................the magic word here being " RECALLS ".
Do you really think Saturn will order a recall ???
-Rocky
I do not believe that I should have to fix a car that is only 6
months old and has less than 5,000 miles on it !! Sure I could
cover the defect with a piece of rubber door gasket glued over
the separations and it would probably not even be noticed.
It's the principlel of the thing................the car is supposed to have a warranty to take care of things like this. Like I said, GM or at least Saturn does not honor warranties !!! Thanks again for the advice.
I will also note I've had problems with my Chevy Impala's rims and have talked to a couple of dealers and nothing was done. I also called Chevy's customer service number and because the car is now 4 years old and out of warranty they wouldn't help me. I started out putting "fix a flat" in it a solution offered to me by our buddy's on here several months ago. Well unfortunately that didn't work for very long and would leak. I had the rims cleaned "roughed" up at Belle Tire. The $60 dollar fix lasted a week on my left and right tire. I brought it back and they tried selling me new rims and told me my rims were bad. I was kinda skeptical and took it to a local tire and garage by my fathers house. I had all 4 rims roughed up again and my back ones and right front were fixed. My left front one started to leak again and the reason why I didn't bring it back again was because somebody there stole my cell phone out of my car and I had to call Sprint and "kill" my phone. Well magically the next day it shows up !!!! Well to make a long story short I ended up taking the Impala, after several weeks of it leaking air slowly and weeks of frusteration to it leaking rapidly like 20+ pounds in a day or 2 to another tire place here in Grand Rapids, a place where dad told me to go. Well come to find out it had a small hole in the LF tire which they patched. Well they roughed up the rims also that day (November 19th) and it lasted well for a week and half and my TPM light came on about 5 or 6 days ago. I'm like oh crap not again !!!!!!!!!!! :mad: Well I took it back today and left it for a few hours and they said the patch wasn't leaking air and they roughed up the rim again and think it willseal finally. So we will see how long this one last's............... :surprise: :surprise: :surprise:
-Rocky
Best of luck on this. Sorry you have to go through it.
-Rocky
My wife came from a family where Buicks were the ONLY cars purchased. We also had problems with several inept GM dealers. As a result, my wife will not even consider a GM product. Ditto for her brother. Another generation lost...
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
Hyundai has definately come up in the world, but I don't care for their derivative styling nor their plebian image. Toyota isn't all that. It's not 1992 anymore and 'Yota's no better than anybody else. Same thing for Honda.
is for every Aura owner out there to at least register a complaint
with Saturn. That way , if they EVER do have a recall, they can
be assurred of being included - because I am sure that Saturn
will only fix those cars still under warranty !
Well, I'm sure Roger doesn't have to worry about Michael Moore anymore. He'll be rubbing elbows with bigger celebrities such as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot to name a few.
all this turns out as I keep taking my case higher up the ladder
to GM Management and maybe even the CEO.
I think it may take a civil suit against Saturn to get a $5.00 fix.
I have noted a lot of bluster about the item on your Saturn. I looked at the picture finally. I'm with corvette. If you don't like that find a corner molding, drill screw holes through the plastic rocker cover, and place a cover in the crack. It looks like there is a seal at the right corner of the picture already.
My own take is that plastic doesn't stay in shape sometimes. My first thought is water drainage is a good reason not to have the plastic tight and snug against the metal. I looked at the beauty covers on my Buick below the door. The fit against the door frame is tighter but they seem to be made of metal rather than plastic, although I'm not sure.
As for all the saying that GM doesn't honor their warranty. That's malarky. I've never had a problem or question about a real item I've taken a car back for repair or change. I've been much pickier than most Camry/Accord owners are about their cars; they often aren't as astute or criticical it seems and accept rattles and squeaks and driving problems as part of the experience.
In a serious attempt to help you..., go to the body shops at the Saturn dealers and ask the body shop manager to look at your car and see what they'd suggest. If you feel your purchase store's body shop is not suitable, travel. Then stop to see the service manager at those stores. Just let the body manager and service manager know you're going to check with both because you're looking for a fix or for ideas--not that you don't trust or value their opinion.
I noticed the first thing my service manager, not the repair writer, did on one question about some on one of my currrent Buicks did was to pick up the phone and call the service manager at another area dealership who's a techie. They help each other. Their goal is happy customers and not upset customers if there's a real problem and a potential fix.
Keep your paperwork about the concern and your visits. Sometimes a repair or change happens after months.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
reads these comments?
every Saturn dealer within 100 miles of me is owned by the
same person......................Saturn headquarters is located
only 4 hours away. Like I said - it's the principle of the thing.
I could easily fix this myself for $5.00, but if Saturn balks at this
repair, can I expect the same type of "service " if my engine
falls out of the car at 6,000 miles ???
actually 3 or 4 similar gaps on both sides of the car at different
points along the rocker panels...................! The pic I posted
is only to show a partial example of the problem.
-Rocky
Not so sure on Saturn and unfortunately it is not a high line vehicle resulting in somewhat shoddy service. Bottom line is that most think dealerships make money off of warranty. I assure you they do not. The factory's allowable time for repairs assumes that the tech does the same job all day. Haven't seen anyone come close to the allowable time for repairs as allowed on TSB's issued by GM.
For your sanity I would do the repair myself if all it took was $5.00 in parts. Life is short. Enjoy your ride.
True but the diesels they sell in Europe are not the clean diesel type. Though they are introducing one this year. Hopefully they can transfer some of those clean diesel engines here to the State side very soon.
I try to enjoy life and my ride.................except every time I
open the door to get into my car, my whole attitude changes !