i took my car to the dealer for the airbag warning light and the the service maniger said the reson or thot the reson was a aftermarket radio

i dont have one, i told the guy that and he stayed quiet


my question is has the delear ever said something really stupid like that

 

lol wow thats a first.

 

BWAAHAHAHAHAHA you should report that to infiniti. if only for giggles.

 

that's pretty lame, what happened afterwards? Did they fix it?

 

lol

 

yeah i picked it up later and asked him why the light goes on if u put an aftermarket radio , and he had no answer

 

In the past two weeks I read several posts about airbags. One member
had his airbags activate after hitting a bump and he proceeded to take out
a tree........lucky to be alive! The second was a guy that flipped his G
eight times and was killed but not all his airbags activated. Did this cause
him his life.......I don't know! As far as the service writer goes I would have
gone over his head to find out if everyone at this agency is that dumb.

 

I was in a car accident where my friend ran a yield sign and we got hit by a car and we ended up going through a gate and hitting a house. The air bag came out after the car came to a complete stop. My friend is lucky to be alive since the metal gate went through the bottom of the car and was 1 inch from going up his @ss. It happened 2 blocks from my house so I see the f*cked up gate and house veryday since the owner took the insurance money but never fixed it.

 

^^ thats a crazy story and your friend is definetly lucky if he was able to not only live but to avoid a steel poll going up his a$s lol As for the dealer and his remark about the aftermarket radio i wouldve just nicely approached him (as a customer) and slowly taken off his name tag (again as a customer) then i wouldve looked him in the eye and fired him lol Customers always right!

 

you'd be surprised at the number of car reps that know absolutely nothing about their cars.

 

At some dealerships it seems like they''re taught to say NO first.

 

really how can a radio cause the airbag not to work

 

If you disconnect any of the airbag harnesses (they're yellow) while installing a system and turn the key to "acc" or start while they are disconnected the airbag light will come on.

 

Stupid things the dealer said? I have a bunch, that the Acura dealer told me....

1.) Told me I need new tires, because they are worn. (I had 4 brand new tires installed the week prior). Dealer then admitted they didn't actually look at the tires, they were going by mileage, saying that they "would've been worn out by now".

2.) Told me I needed to have the radiator flushed, because the coolant was old/dirty. I told them to check the service records, where they'll notice the radiator was replaced ~ 2 months prior. I asked if replacing the radiator requires changing the coolant.... They had nothing to say, except "I'll ask the master mechanic why he recommended this"

* Note * All of the following happened on the same visit....

3.) They told me that I needed to flush the transmission, because the fluid smelled dirty/burnt. They said that because I "failed to properly maintain the tranny" by flushing it, the warranty was void, and that they couldn't do anything about my tranny which self-destructed. (Hence why I'm at the dealer) However, I just had the tranny serviced because of a recall a few weeks prior, so I asked them to lookup in their service records what was done, because I remember the itemized list, showing that the fluid was flushed.... I also asked them to show me where in the owners manual/maintenence book, it shows that not flushing your tranny fluid before 32,000 miles voids your warranty....

4.) So then they said, I never had the dealer perform any service work, and that if I didn't have the dealer perform regular maintenence it would void the warranty, so I pointed out that the maintenence book doesn't explicity say that, and it even says you can do it yourself. (In fact I pointed out that the language the warranty/maintence/owners manual used, it wasn't even an explicit requirement to do the items listed in the maintenece guide)... Needless to say, they reinstated my warranty, and replaced my tranny free of charge.

5.) When talking about flushing, the dealer said that you need special equipment to flush the tranny, that only the dealer has... So then I pointed out that I have the Acura Service Manuals, and would like them to show me where it describes this "special equipment". So then they said that it would merely be "more convenient" if the dealer did it........

 

hahahaah