My friend and sales manager at Ford said they would eat the repair! :-)

 

my first ordered 06 got the quarter/decklid smashed by a careless carhauler in the dealers lot... 5 months wait, they smashed it unloading it...anyway, I tracked that car- hauler company took ownership of it, then went to liberty ford in ohio for repairs with damage noted- then 3 months later was sold via different dealer in west virginia with no damage/repair disclosure, as a dealer demo.

interesting how stuff can get thrown off on customers...

 

Yep it's back on their lot for sale as we speak! And nobody's the wiser for it!

 

Of course it pulls to the left now and nobody can figure out why

Maybe there's a TSB for it

 

Dealer assumes risk when they give you vehicle to drive if you have not signed anything. Thats usually how it works, hell they practically begged me to test drive a 2015, didnt even give them my name... let alone my DL... salesman just handed me the keys and asked me to go drive.

 

Back in '77 I worked as a service advisor at a Toyota dealership. The management was pretty much a bunch of blatently dishonest scumbags.

At that time, Toyota (or perhaps even NJ law, can't remember) put a dollar limit on the amount of damage a car could have repaired and still be sold new with a warranty. I recall at the time is was just several hundred dollars.

The sales manager particularly was an obnoxious a$$-wipe with cheap toupee. He rolled his new Celica demo after a night of drinking, crushed the roof and damaged glass.

He had us send the car to a body shop with instructions to replace glass, bondo the roof, and install a vinyl top to hide the cheap and shoddy repair. Back then Celicas were a hot seller, and he bragged that he sold the car new for over sticker.

 

SWEEET! that's the way it should be!

 

Where's the OP? Did he pay? Does he really drive a Camaro and came here to stir things up??

 

Probably fetching the dealerships slippers. Lol

 

Or washing cars on the lot.

 

Still talking to the dealership. The tentative agreement is that I'll pay the dealer cost for the parts, and they'll credit me for the rim/tire, which I find reasonable.

 

I wouldn't pay a darned thing man...did you sign anything or give them a copy of your insurance? If not, you are 0% liable.

 

I would call a lawyer and or the local PD.

 

Sounds good to me

I mean come on guys he did damage the wheel

Why bother insurance just so it can go up

I don't like how the dealer started this but it seems it's reasonable now to fess up and pay

How would yall like it if I test drove your car and curb rashes a wheel and tire and then said too bad buddy

 

So when one of your employees cuts a 2x6 too short, and grabs another one out of the stack, do you ding his pay? How about bent nails?

Some things are a cost of doing business... factored into profit margins... which is why owners make the big bucks and own a private car collection.

 

Was the salesman (actual employee) driving the car? No.


I'll tell you this. If a potential customer drives his car through a garage door you better believe he or his insurance is paying for the repairs.

I wouldn't have done it the way the dealer did. But whatever happened to if you break it you buy it.

 

They're called accidents. And they happen day in and day out at dealerships - which is why they pay for insurance. That's the business they are in and if they don't like the risks, don't be in the business. Nobody forced the dealer to let a customer drive unattended. I've never been allowed to take a test drive on my own.

Like you say, you would have handled it different, but the way this stealer handled it shows he's #1 shady piece of crap. Gougers deserve what they get.

 

Like is said before, if there is insurance than great. If not show some personal
Responsibility. Why in hell should the dealer cough up the cost. He might as well
Smashed it into a pole.

 

Which would have involved insurance. Why any different for this accident?

 

The dealer isn't paying retail for those parts. Even if they were, that wheel price is inflated.

I'd let insurance handle it and not deal with that dealer directly any further.