Merry FVCKING Christmas!!!!! (a very pissed off rant)

Reply #15 – December 26, 2005, 03:34:16 PM

This sounds very familiar to my mother's '81 Buick Riviera. My father picked it up in early '84 as it had come off a lease program with under 20,000 miles on it.My father is a licensed mechanicand had a tax number when he used to live in NY so parts weren't a problem as far as cost goes but, working on the thing all the time is another. IIRC the car came with a 307 that ran well enough but everything around it fell apart. In one year and 10,000 miles the list goes as follows:

1 Transmission
3 sets front brake pads (factory ones at that)
1 set rotors
1 cruise control module
2 sets rear pads (again ....factory pads)
1 motor mount

These along with numerous other things I can't remember coupled with the fact that only my mother drove this car and she didn't drive like a nut forced the old man to sell it. The dealership he bought it from sold it to him as is so all parts came out of pocket.
Looking back my guess is the dealership knew what people did to lease cars back then (and now still) and decided to brake all ties with the darn car once it was sold.

Merry FVCKING Christmas!!!!! (a very pissed off rant)

Reply #16 – December 26, 2005, 05:28:27 PM

I hope they make it right, you sure deserve much better.

My wife is wierd in that she doesn't want to get any other cars to replace the aging fleet, as she is so paranoid that getting something to replace what we have (even brand new) is not necessarilly better than what you already have... Your incident illustrates her point...

Maybe you better get a daily driver T-Bird

Merry FVCKING Christmas!!!!! (a very pissed off rant)

Reply #17 – December 29, 2005, 09:33:45 PM

, i left the forum 10 days ago, and Thunderchicken got rich, bought a Volvo wagon, destroyed the volvo wagon , and was his b-day, what else huh ?