Topic: Some People ...

[Arthur Dent]

The fastest vehicles on the road here are always full size trucks. Not uncommon to a see a farmer doing 150 down a secondary highway.

[Weels]

his complaint is that there is a very slight vibration at highway speeds... "so what speed is that for you?", "between 150-160".

Had a customer at Ford with a similar concern. "truck has a vibration at 150km/h while in 4wd" It was a F350 diesel too. 

Isn't the cure obvious here?  Hercules tires.  G5000Z (215/40ZR17).



The joke that keeps on giving.   

[Sandman]

his complaint is that there is a very slight vibration at highway speeds... "so what speed is that for you?", "between 150-160".

Had a customer at Ford with a similar concern. "truck has a vibration at 150km/h while in 4wd" It was a F350 diesel too. 

Isn't the cure obvious here?  Hercules tires.  G5000Z (215/40ZR17).



The joke that keeps on giving.   

I don't get it?

[Fobroader]

his complaint is that there is a very slight vibration at highway speeds... "so what speed is that for you?", "between 150-160".

Had a customer at Ford with a similar concern. "truck has a vibration at 150km/h while in 4wd" It was a F350 diesel too. 

Isn't the cure obvious here?  Hercules tires.  G5000Z (215/40ZR17).



The joke that keeps on giving.   

I don't get it?

Inside joke, had to be there, happened a long time ago on here.....still hilarious, I'm sure someone will dig that thread up 

[HeliDriver]

his complaint is that there is a very slight vibration at highway speeds... "so what speed is that for you?", "between 150-160".

Had a customer at Ford with a similar concern. "truck has a vibration at 150km/h while in 4wd" It was a F350 diesel too. 

Isn't the cure obvious here?  Hercules tires.  G5000Z (215/40ZR17).



The joke that keeps on giving.   

I don't get it?

Inside joke, had to be there, happened a long time ago on here.....still hilarious, I'm sure someone will dig that thread up 

I followed a Hercules Tire truck on the highway yesterday. Sprinter van all painted up with the Hercules Tire logo. Should've snapped a pic. 

[Cord]

Had a guy wanting to finance a 2005 Chrysler 300. We found one bank that would do a 24 month loan on that year of car. We presented the payments and the customer said they had to go home and consider it. That evening I got a call from the customer. He was upset that the payment was so high, saying he could get a brand new truck with a similar payment.

"Over 24 months?" I asked.

"No, 84. But it's just common sense that the payments on an 11 year old car should be way lower than on a brand new truck," he replied.

"Well, we are not dealing with common sense here. We are dealing with arithmetic. Do you really want to be making payments on an 18 year old car?"

"Who said anything about making payments for 18 years?"

Sigh ...

[Gurgie]

Had a guy wanting to finance a 2005 Chrysler 300. We found one bank that would do a 24 month loan on that year of car. We presented the payments and the customer said they had to go home and consider it. That evening I got a call from the customer. He was upset that the payment was so high, saying he could get a brand new truck with a similar payment.

"Over 24 months?" I asked.

"No, 84. But it's just common sense that the payments on an 11 year old car should be way lower than on a brand new truck," he replied.

"Well, we are not dealing with common sense here. We are dealing with arithmetic. Do you really want to be making payments on an 18 year old car?"

"Who said anything about making payments for 18 years?"

Sigh ...

          

[Mike]

meh... i like the dealership (or wherever i work) to be successful. sometime it means some sacrifices on my end, but i like to think it works in my favour, be it from compensation, certain freedoms i'm given, or just karma!

so today's fun one was in the shop... guy who comes in, tells us that he is a difficult customer from the get-go... has a 16 ram with 20k on the clock... first time we've seen him, so we look it up... been to three dealers before us, never gone back to any, so tells us he is either just not loyal at all, has been booted from the other dealers, or they have upset him somehow.

his complaint is that there is a very slight vibration at highway speeds... "so what speed is that for you?", "between 150-160".

hmm... we tell him that a) we can't road test for that, and b) at those speeds, you are bound to have a less smooth ride being that you are driving a pick-up truck.

"if a ferrari can drive 240km/h smoothly, i should expect this can handle nearly 100km/h less. i paid a lot of money for it, so i expect it to do what i want".

I looked up the warranty info on his truck from the other dealers, nearly every problem was a"fault not found", or "unable to duplicate customers concerns at this time"... that translates to, "customer is a dick, so we aren't going to spend the time to fix things that aren't broken".

so guys, don't be like this guy. be realistic, loyal, and just friendly and people will want to help you.

This reminds me of my time as a lot kid at a dealership in University. Parents bought a kid (17-19 or so) a Corvette. He brings it in with a check engine light on. Techs hook it up to the machine and find on sensor tripped at 197 km/h and another at 220 km/h. The kid is asked what track he was at when it happened and of course he states he's never been to a track and to just fix his car. The service manager lays into the kid a bit saying there's no way he's sending a tech out on the highway to test the car at those speeds to verify the issue and he should slow down.

The kids mom comes in and berates the service manager for speaking to her kid like that and to fix the car. Long story short, the Vette arrives on the back of a flatbed totalled less than a month later from a high-speed spin out on a residential road.

Parents buy kid another Corvette as replacement.

[tpl]

I read some of these posts and it makes me believe more and more of the value of a rifle butt a baseball bat to the head as a teaching experience.

[Allen]

Had a guy wanting to finance a 2005 Chrysler 300. We found one bank that would do a 24 month loan on that year of car. We presented the payments and the customer said they had to go home and consider it. That evening I got a call from the customer. He was upset that the payment was so high, saying he could get a brand new truck with a similar payment.

"Over 24 months?" I asked.

"No, 84. But it's just common sense that the payments on an 11 year old car should be way lower than on a brand new truck," he replied.

"Well, we are not dealing with common sense here. We are dealing with arithmetic. Do you really want to be making payments on an 18 year old car?"

"Who said anything about making payments for 18 years?"

Sigh ...

[Solstice2006]

^ Love that!

[aquadorhj]

I read some of these posts and it makes me believe more and more of the value of a rifle butt a baseball bat to the head as a teaching experience.

i think bullet would work as well.

[tpl]

I read some of these posts and it makes me believe more and more of the value of a rifle butt a baseball bat to the head as a teaching experience.

i think bullet would work as well.

A teaching experience suggests that they have to be alive afterwards no?


Some of the posts about people who come to the dealers saying that hate xxx and then go further underwater buying a used yyy which could be worse should have to spend a year or two driving a '60s  British car...and I don't mean a Roller or even a Jaguar.

[aquadorhj]

I was referring more soecifically toward mikes example of kid who flippied Corvette in residential area though.   

But yes, otherwise  a bat would work better.

[tooscoops]

though this one was briefly mentioned in the upside down one, it really belongs here...

kid who has bad credit, a couple months out of a proposal... called because his car has bitten the bullet. i don't even know what the car is because he tells me it's scrap. i'll show him 500 bucks if he can get it to me. he then tells me he wants this jeep wrangler rubicon i have for roughly 40k.... ok sure... show him payments.. they are WAY too high, so i just tell him that... he wants me to just lower them magically.

i told him, this is using prime credit... i'm hoping we can get a co-signer or something... he says no chance, so i let him know payments will be even higher likely, not lower. that's when he drops the bomb that he still owes 13000 on the scrap car... he just could not understand that the money didn't go away... his literal words?...

"well, that car doesn't run anymore, so i don't think i need to keep paying it, right?"

wonder why he nearly went bankrupt.

[Solstice2006]

Parents who have kids in highschool now, I wonder if the Math curriculum has changed to help the kids understand.  More chapters on business math, then calculus. 

[OliverD]

"well, that car doesn't run anymore, so i don't think i need to keep paying it, right?"

 

[Fobroader]

"well, that car doesn't run anymore, so i don't think i need to keep paying it, right?"

 

Holy crap.....they are amongst us and allowed to breed and vote.

[Gurgie]

though this one was briefly mentioned in the upside down one, it really belongs here...

kid who has bad credit, a couple months out of a proposal... called because his car has bitten the bullet. i don't even know what the car is because he tells me it's scrap. i'll show him 500 bucks if he can get it to me. he then tells me he wants this jeep wrangler rubicon i have for roughly 40k.... ok sure... show him payments.. they are WAY too high, so i just tell him that... he wants me to just lower them magically.

i told him, this is using prime credit... i'm hoping we can get a co-signer or something... he says no chance, so i let him know payments will be even higher likely, not lower. that's when he drops the bomb that he still owes 13000 on the scrap car... he just could not understand that the money didn't go away... his literal words?...

"well, that car doesn't run anymore, so i don't think i need to keep paying it, right?"

wonder why he nearly went bankrupt.

Can he read at least?  If so, point him over to this forum so he can see the entertainment we get out of his limited math skills and common sense   

[tooscoops]

oh i get stuff like that more often than i should.... girl who didn't have the money to pay for her winter wheels, so had to go home and talk to mom... she was a good customer, so we said ok, we'll let you drive off... two weeks later, we finally get a hold of her and she says, "oh, i got in an accident the other day". "sorry to hear that... so about the wheels...", "oh, i'm not driving the car anymore, so i shouldn't have to pay for the tires, right?"........

"....why would you think that?"