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Gave An AV Driver The Finger Today

mmdavidw

mmdavidw

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But I had VERY good reason to!

Took my AV into the dealership on the morning of the 14th... one year to the day after I bought it. Minor issues, drivers side lumbar support that they didn't fix right the last time, air conditioning that they didn't fix right the last time, windshield weatherstriping flapping when wet that they didn't fix right last time, plus they had to replace the front bumper cladding, give it an oil change and rotate the tires. While a lenghty list, all pretty minor issues.

Anyway, I'll leave out a lot of the inbetween but they gave me a Chevy Cavalier for a loaner car (I'm 6'4" tall) after they figured out it wouldn't be fixed on the 14th.

So here it is, the 15th, the day before my birthday, still no AV. Go to pick up a pizza in my rental go-kart and I'm in the parking lot and I'm even friggin signalling to make a left turn into a parking spot.

I noticed an AV coming towards me while I'm making my turn into my parking spot. It wasn't that close, it wasn't like I was cutting it off, but I wasn't super familiar with the car so I was being careful pulling in.

Well, the soccer mom in the AV that didn't give a **** about me decided she was gonna keep going and wasn't going to be bothered with slowing down to allow me to park. So she speeds up and tries to pull infront of me... blocking me from pulling into my spot. And she gives me this dirty look and expects me to back up and move like I comitted some crime for getting in her way.

I wasn't happy about not having my AV and getting annoyed that I probably wouldn't have it for my birthday and was REALLY upset that she had her AV and had ZERO appreciation for it, so I put my go-kart in park, got out, gave her the finger and walked in and got my pizza... leaving the go-kart right in her way.

I was only in there about a minute, but oddly enough, she was still there when I got out, she refused to go around me... she waited until I backed up and moved before she moved an inch.

So yes, I gave an AV driver the finger, but gosh darn it she deserved it and it made me feel better about my AVless situation.

David
 
Way to go! She totally doesn't deserve her Av. I hope nobody's wives act like that when they beg to borrow your Avs...
 
I hope it didn't have amber DRL's! :eek:
 
sorry to hear that david! I hope everything works out for you. I see both sides of these as well coming from working at a the dealership. I know exactly what you mean regarding the Servie department.

I work there and I have to wait a long time just for an oil change knowing the fact that I am busy and need my AV.

needless to say, we all know where your coming from.

hang in there!

oh by the way, Happy Birthday!

 
Weird coincidence, my wife just got home after borrowing my AV for the day and said some weirdo parked this piece of junk car in front of her.... ?>:D LOL..... :p

Hope you feel better and Happy Birthday!

:cool:
 
Thanks for all of the support. :)

You may be wondering WHY my AV is still at the dealership. They got everything done except the front bumper cladding.

Apparantly they have never done cladding work before and have no idea how to do it. I'm guessing they pulled the old cladding off, broke the clips and didn't order clips with the new cladding and are unable to install either piece of cladding.

Today I was told that the new cladding piece was all scratched up worse than the old one (the old one wasn't scratched up at all).

Guess it takes a week to replace a piece of cladding. Since I can't do anything about it I'm just trying to hope for the best and expect the worst.

Have an AV Meet & Cruise this weekend for my bday that I organized and I'm not going to be happy if I have to show up in a Chevy Cavalier Go-Kart.

David
 
Sorry to hear about your AV being down for that long.

I wonder why she was still there waiting?? Maybe she:
  • was shocked someone had such nerve after taking her spot and all
  • was afraid to back it up without a spotter
  • is into getting flipped off
  • was shocked because she assumes men will always back down
  • wanted to show you she wasn't going to give-in
  • confused because that's not where cars are supposed to park
  • gave you the oppotunity to do it again
 
mmdavidw said:
Apparantly they have never done cladding work before and have no idea how to do it. I'm guessing they pulled the old cladding off, broke the clips and didn't order clips with the new cladding and are unable to install either piece of cladding.
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That reminds me of my dealership, Lakewood Chevrolet Oldsmobile, where they charged me labour to remove my GM brush guard so they could replace my front grille. They had the nerve to not only charge me more than the entire time it took to do everything - they were only to charge me the time to remove the GM brush guard, since it was in the way - but half the time was spent in the back, trying to find installation instructions so that they could remove the brush guard. Absolute sh!t. And of course, this would be the first time that GM has not sent me a questionairre afterward. What I really need is for some people to call the dealership and make some comment along the line of 'I heard this and have now decided against going there.' to make them realize how upset they have made me. Ah well. I've gone way off course now. :)
 
She wasn't after the parking spot, she drove off and didn't see where she went.

I went for the full insurance on the rental. I would have thought about just driving right into her but it was an AV and I couldn't willingly crash into one.

David
 
mmdavidw said:
Today I was told that the new cladding piece was all scratched up worse than the old one (the old one wasn't scratched up at all).

Guess it takes a week to replace a piece of cladding. Since I can't do anything about it I'm just trying to hope for the best and expect the worst.


David
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My Av is in the shop for some body work and I was told that the first two bumper covers they received were "damaged in shipping" and they are waiting for a third.
 
GoldBowTie, I wonder how they mail these things. Does Chevy stick a mailing label on them and toss them out for the mail man to pick up?

Geez...

No phone call yet so I'm hoping they got something decent.

David
 
mmdavidw said:
But I had VERY good reason to!

Took my AV into the dealership on the morning of the 14th... one year to the day after I bought it. Minor issues, drivers side lumbar support that they didn't fix right the last time, air conditioning that they didn't fix right the last time, windshield weatherstriping flapping when wet that they didn't fix right last time, plus they had to replace the front bumper cladding, give it an oil change and rotate the tires. While a lenghty list, all pretty minor issues.

Anyway, I'll leave out a lot of the inbetween but they gave me a Chevy Cavalier for a loaner car (I'm 6'4" tall) after they figured out it wouldn't be fixed on the 14th.

So here it is, the 15th, the day before my birthday, still no AV. Go to pick up a pizza in my rental go-kart and I'm in the parking lot and I'm even friggin signalling to make a left turn into a parking spot.

I noticed an AV coming towards me while I'm making my turn into my parking spot. It wasn't that close, it wasn't like I was cutting it off, but I wasn't super familiar with the car so I was being careful pulling in.

Well, the soccer mom in the AV that didn't give a **** about me decided she was gonna keep going and wasn't going to be bothered with slowing down to allow me to park. So she speeds up and tries to pull infront of me... blocking me from pulling into my spot. And she gives me this dirty look and expects me to back up and move like I comitted some crime for getting in her way.

I wasn't happy about not having my AV and getting annoyed that I probably wouldn't have it for my birthday and was REALLY upset that she had her AV and had ZERO appreciation for it, so I put my go-kart in park, got out, gave her the finger and walked in and got my pizza... leaving the go-kart right in her way.

I was only in there about a minute, but oddly enough, she was still there when I got out, she refused to go around me... she waited until I backed up and moved before she moved an inch.

So yes, I gave an AV driver the finger, but gosh darn it she deserved it and it made me feel better about my AVless situation.

David
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She probably doesn't care about her AV. She is probably a stay at home Mom and her husband bought it for her anyway, no offence female members >:D She probably drives around all day in the AV while her husband drives, what? a CAVALIER!! no wonder she was trying to block you!! ;) :B:
 
carrerarod said:
Weird coincidence, my wife just got home after borrowing my AV for the day and said some weirdo parked this piece of junk car in front of her.... ?>:D LOL..... :p

Hope you feel better and Happy Birthday!

:cool:
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David...you're in trouble :3: >:D
 
My mom would be considered that bossy get outta my way type! No, I'm seriously just kidding. She does feel a great sense of control over everybody else when she's driving the AV though >:D.

Then there are other women. When you see them driving AVs and you try to wave to them, they either forget about what they're driving because their husbands just surrender the AV to prevent mileage (take my dad for example), they're not observant enough to notice other AVs, or they simply don't care.

Avrunner, it looks like you went on a HUGE tear with posts today!
 
Uh oh, NOW I'm in trouble....

ThatsMSAvalanche2U

Maybe one of the mods can delete this thread before she sees it. :)

(no, I don't want the mods to delete this thread, I don't even know if it was her)

David
 
Geez! Those kinda people give us female AV drivers a bad name! I would have sat there in the rental and ate pizza >:D

Don't ya love those tiny rentals? I think the Saturn I got from Enterprise was lowered, I can barely see over the windshield wipers too because the seat is so low and I can drive with my knees! :2:
 
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