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11-22-2019, 09:14 PM | #63268 |
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He does have a point. It's partly why I've never bought new. I can accept and cheerfully repair issues on a used machine of any type. Shoddy workmanship on a brand new car would make me sick no matter what the price.
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11-22-2019, 09:30 PM | #63269 |
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11-22-2019, 09:33 PM | #63270 | |
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We have had ten new cars over the years and I can only point at one of them where workmanship was bad. That one however was really, REALLY bad!
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11-22-2019, 10:25 PM | #63274 |
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I got the picture - an Idaho man cave -
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Was a 2004 Pontiac Sunfire that we leased for the wife.
From new the driver's mirror vibrated so bad at highway speeds you couldn't see out it. Was in 4 or 5 times for them to "fix" it and it never got any better. About a year into the car it just fell off one day when going over a speed bump. They got it back on but it still shook. The horn would honk all on it's own for no apparent reason and with no discernible pattern. They replaced the relay a couple of times but it did it until the day we took it back. Closed the trunk one day and the bolts on one side slipped creating a 1/2" gap on one side. Was an easy fix but not something that should even be possible. The rear passenger door window winder handle (remember those?) fell off since the set screw was stripped. More on this to come. After about a year and a half we had had enough and went to Pontiac to see what could be done about the remaining half of the 3 year lease. They were more than happy to take the car back as long as we paid the $2,000 penalty for ending the lease early. We told them to shove it and went to the Mitsubishi dealership where I had bought my 03 Lancer and talked to them. They did up a deal for an Outlander which included them paying off the penalty (no doubt we paid it hidden in the deal but wanted out of the damned thing). So we took the Sunfire back to the Pontiac dealer and the manager gave us a hard time since all the issues we had were "impossible". Right in the middle of his explaining their stringent quality control process my son got out of the back seat and closed the door. The whole door panel including the previously mentioned window winder fell off and lay on the seat. I said "see" handed him the keys and walked away. he didn't even try to follow. The sad part is that she had a 2001 Sunfire that never gave her a single issue in the 3 years we had it.
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11-22-2019, 10:43 PM | #63276 | |
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Bottom line is that I went into this knowing that I'd be fixing a shit ton of warts and was ok with it. If I had bought a brand new machine, it would be a very different story. I will never buy new.
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11-22-2019, 11:02 PM | #63277 | |
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I will take a new car with it's potential for petty minor issues over a used one with god only knows what any day.
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but there is no benefit to paying over $5 for any of those options.
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