Taking your car to the dealer? Be careful

and so he swindles the dealer into a new 2022? That's a little much no? Would love to know how that conversation went. 

Probably more like, "we've determined that our tech could've smoked the hellcat in a new 2022 model. Let's review your options". 😂😂

 
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He could explain his way thru everything up until the Dodge showed up. At that point he lost his job. But in this economy he probably got promoted.

 
Chingon619 said:
and so he swindles the dealer into a new 2022? That's a little much no? Would love to know how that conversation went. 

Probably more like, "we've determined that our tech could've smoked the hellcat in a new 2022 model. Let's review your options". 😂😂
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I don't think he swindled the dealer into a new 2022.  Keep in mind he had effectively a brand new 2021 (something like 800 miles on the clock per the Reddit thread).  I think the dealer's employee abused his car in a manner that should be the owner's choice, not the employee's.  Floor it?  Sure.  Redline a couple of times?  Annoying, but sure. 

148mph street race through busy traffic in and out of the carpool lane (rock chips galore)?  Uh, no.  Dealer pretty much had to replace it and fire the guy since I doubt anyone would want to take their car there had they not done so.

On top of that:

"Dosanjh owns several dealerships in the Fremont area and says that when the option to give Michael a new car came up, he thought it was a good one. "After my conversation with him, at some point, we said OK, why don't we just trade your car in, [we'll] take it back, give you one, and we'll pay the sales tax," he said."

AKA: they're gonna lose a couple bucks on the trade, then sell the 'Vette for more than MSRP anyway since everything is marked up right now.  Win for all.

 
Tech wanted to get fired. The PDR is common knowledge to any c8 tech and owner. If you can spring for the markup on these cars you can afford to buy the SD card that it needs to activate the feature 

 
Rockwood said:
Dealer pretty much had to replace it and fire the guy
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I don't know about that. They could never get 22' money for a 21'. Plain and simple to me. Loss there + taxes + new reg, etc etc. It's too much a loss. It's simply an employee mishap. Of course he's fired. Goes without saying. Mr Customer, we're truly sorry this happened. At this point we are prepared to cover any damages (your rock chips) and provide you with every ancillary service our store provides, to include dent and ding, tire and wheel, windshield, extended roadside, key replacement, paint and fab protection all for 5 years, a full detail with ceramic coating, an extended service contract on all aspects mechanical for 5 years and a written promise to pay you full retail for your car when you are ready to upgrade. 

Point is, any corvette owner understands the temptation of driving this car like you stole it and sure it can sometimes take over the bad decision easily. Cost the guy his job, and well, at least he had the data that shows not much harm done. If the dude did doughnuts for 10 minutes straight and was drifting it on an open lot, may be worse I think. What recourse did he really have? Dealer could easily offer to inform the CHP to issue a wreckless citation to the tech. Mr customer would've probably refused that offer I think. Meh, just my .02 

 
The real question is, why didn't he just take the left lane when he had the opportunity?!!! 🤣

 
Chingon619 said:
I don't know about that. They could never get 22' money for a 21'. Plain and simple to me. Loss there + taxes + new reg, etc etc. It's too much a loss. It's simply an employee mishap. Of course he's fired. Goes without saying. Mr Customer, we're truly sorry this happened. At this point we are prepared to cover any damages (your rock chips) and provide you with every ancillary service our store provides, to include dent and ding, tire and wheel, windshield, extended roadside, key replacement, paint and fab protection all for 5 years, a full detail with ceramic coating, an extended service contract on all aspects mechanical for 5 years and a written promise to pay you full retail for your car when you are ready to upgrade. 

Point is, any corvette owner understands the temptation of driving this car like you stole it and sure it can sometimes take over the bad decision easily. Cost the guy his job, and well, at least he had the data that shows not much harm done. If the dude did doughnuts for 10 minutes straight and was drifting it on an open lot, may be worse I think. What recourse did he really have? Dealer could easily offer to inform the CHP to issue a wreckless citation to the tech. Mr customer would've probably refused that offer I think. Meh, just my .02 
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That Reddit thread has 2.5M views and thousands of comments in a couple of weeks. Dealer was getting calls non stop for comment, YouTube video was blowing up, articles everywhere.

Dealer really didn’t have a choice. For them, this turns a bad situation into sorta decent press (“we handle our sheeyit and take care of the customer, honest”). Owners of fast cars like this all fear/know it’s gonna get hooned to some extent. It’s nice to see the dealer handling it without the usual games.

Dealer also won’t hurt as badly in this market.  I was offered $7k over my OTD price on my Mustang by a competing Ford dealer to trade in on a new Mach 1 when I went to check it out.

 
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That Reddit thread has 2.5M views and thousands of comments in a couple of weeks. Dealer was getting calls non stop for comment, YouTube video was blowing up, articles everywhere.

Dealer really didn’t have a choice. For them, this turns a bad situation into sorta decent press (“we handle our sheeyit and take care of the customer, honest”). Owners of fast cars like this all fear/know it’s gonna get hooned to some extent. It’s nice to see the dealer handling it without the usual games.

Dealer also won’t hurt as badly in this market.  I was offered $7k over my OTD price on my Mustang by a competing Ford dealer to trade in on a new Mach 1 when I went to check it out.
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Makes cents.

 
What doesn't makes sense.  THERE IS NO way they were casually passing highway traffic at nearly double the " "posted" speed"  The speed in the display was wack.  Pass someone that is doing 60 while you're doing 120 is the same as you jammin by someone on the sidewalk at 60.  ZOOM it wasn't.  

Proportions weren't right for me.

A "guy I know" had to go from PHX to LV.  Had a bit of a dead line on the LV end.  Pushing 90 the whole way.  That is pretty much what HIS drive looked like when encountering traffic.  70vs90 not 70vs120

 
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@Kraut_n_RiceProbably just cameras tend to slow things down unless you play with the mounting height, especially items that aren’t right next to the camera.

https://youtu.be/U7JcOEKw-r4

Watch the white patches on the guardrail go by. They don’t look THAT fast, but LeClerc is averaging about 100mph, hitting a peak speed of 170mph in the tunnel on that lap. 

 
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Rockwood said:
@Kraut_n_RiceProbably just cameras tend to slow things down unless you play with the mounting height, especially items that aren’t right next to the camera.

https://youtu.be/U7JcOEKw-r4

Watch the white patches on the guardrail go by. They don’t look THAT fast, but LeClerc is averaging about 100mph, hitting a peak speed of 170mph in the tunnel on that lap. 
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Nah, aside from the size of a human.... there is nothing to provide scale (distance)in that vid. How wide are the white patches? Closer to the ground, the faster it "feels"...no Crap.  

 
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Nah, aside from the size of a human.... there is nothing to provide scale (distance)in that vid. How wide are the white patches? Closer to the ground, the faster it "feels"...no Crap.  
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Dunno man. When he slows down to 75ish, looks considerably slower. All I know is no onboard ever looks fast…

 
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Nah, aside from the size of a human.... there is nothing to provide scale (distance)in that vid. How wide are the white patches? Closer to the ground, the faster it "feels"...no Crap.  
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Dammit, geeked out:

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Display says 6200rpm in the 148mph screenshot. Grimmjeeper using a 0.65 ratio (5th), 5.2:1 final (there’s an underdrive apparently in the C8s) and 305/30-20s confirms. :dunno:

 
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Dammit, geeked out:

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Display says 6200rpm in the 148mph screenshot. Grimmjeeper using a 0.65 ratio (5th), 5.2:1 final (there’s an underdrive apparently in the C8s) and 305/30-20s confirms. :dunno:
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Jeezus! This is why nobody ever wants to argue with you 😅 

I also doubted the speeds at first since I tend to hit those numbers every now and then on the street bike, but once I start to think of how fast I can get up there and back down I seemed to believe it more. I imagine they accelerate relatively as fast. Also the effect of no sound and camera stability can snuff the brain. I've had gopro video of me on track too and when I get home with all the excitement to share, it never looks as fast as it really is. 

 
Chingon619 said:
Jeezus! This is why nobody ever wants to argue with you 😅 

I also doubted the speeds at first since I tend to hit those numbers every now and then on the street bike, but once I start to think of how fast I can get up there and back down I seemed to believe it more. I imagine they accelerate relatively as fast. Also the effect of no sound and camera stability can snuff the brain. I've had gopro video of me on track too and when I get home with all the excitement to share, it never looks as fast as it really is. 
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Yeah. Same with outside shots, terrain, etc. Worst are fisheye lenses since things stay in the periphery longer than you expect. 

 
my buddy bought a new truck. insisted on doing it himself, didn't want dad to help him.

drives truck home, dad says let me see the paperwork. he says I told you don't get the ext warranty. 

he said I didn't get it. dad says you signed right here. wasn't his signature, dealership forged it and worked it into the price

dad called attorney, buddy walked away with a free and clear truck, or they were going to the news media and see them in court.

 
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