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Dealership Employees Learning to Drive Stick with Customer's Car
Soooo I'm already feeling like this is a lame first post...been lurking for about a year and a half without any real need to post anything, so thanks everyone for asking/answering all my dumb questions for me.
That said, I have a pretty much stock 2017 86. I have a couple more years of school left and an extended service warranty, so I take it to the local dealership for oil changes and the major mile-marker safety inspections (so that if something goes wrong with the engine there's less to question since I won't be making any real money for a while).
I had it in the other day and forgot to tell them to skip the wash since I prefer to do it myself (bought it used with too many swirls/scratches already), and my dash cam caught the car wash staff giving an impromptu driving lesson.
The conversation is all in Spanish, but this gist of it is one guy gets in, realizes it's a manual and shouts to another employee that he doesn't know how to drive it. Instead of telling him to get out and let her back it out, she starts telling him what to do. He ends up stalling it at least ten times that I can count, as well as riding the clutch, leaving the clutch pedal depressed for long periods of time, restarting the engine before it has time to completely stop from a stall, etc.
My question is: how upset about this should I be? I'm 100% going to inform management at the dealership about this--taking liberties like this in a customer's vehicle is a violation of trust, at the very least--but should I push it further than that? There are mixed opinions all over the internet about just how much damage these actions could have incurred, with my overall takeaway from such musings being that you don't really know how much damage was done until something goes wrong down the road (at which point, who knows whose fault it was).
I don't want to go in there guns blazing unless I absolutely should, but I also don't want to get walked all over. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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