Fun at a stealership
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From: Fort Worth
we got a kid in my autos class with blinker fluid its still his nick name to this day. haha we looked at a head and said DUDE go get some blinker fluid its so low! we told him it was in a blue bottle he asked the autos teacher and the teacher just said.."Those kids are ****s..." ah good times.
http://www.geocities.com/changeyourb...uid/index.html
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From: farmington hills, MI
HAHAHA thats awesome.
oh and with the air bags/shocks i did that to my buddys 1976 el camino all the time he had air shocks and id always take all the air out and one day i felt kidna bad because when he was driving somewere he bottomed out on soemthing and riped the driver side exhuast off lol he said he hated that exhuast anyways.
oh and with the air bags/shocks i did that to my buddys 1976 el camino all the time he had air shocks and id always take all the air out and one day i felt kidna bad because when he was driving somewere he bottomed out on soemthing and riped the driver side exhuast off lol he said he hated that exhuast anyways.
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From: Orlando, FL
I dropped my truck off at Greenway Ford in Orlando this morning so they could take care of my brake booster hose recall. The service tech asks me if I want to change the air in my tires with Nitrogen. I told him no, I like free air much better.
He called me about 4 hours later and said that is was almost done but there were a few service items that I should have taken care of. He starts off by telling me I need new brake pads, rotors turned and new brake fluid. I told him thanks but either I will do it myself or have a brake shop do them. He then tells me that I need to replace two nuts. Huh? I asked him what he was talking about. He paused and he said that he thought it meant lug nuts. Again, huh? He then calls another guy on his other phone and then tells me that there are two nuts that I have to replace when I replace the pads.
The second thing he wanted me to do was to flush the transmission (I have 40k miles). He told me that it looks like it has never been changed. I told him that I had it flushed and replaced 3000 miles ago. He said maybe it was some residual left over. Huh?
The last item was the air filter. I have a K&N with the sticker alerting them to not even open it up. He said it needs to be replaced. I told him that I just cleaned it 1 month ago and to please tell the guys to read. Do not open up my air filter. I can bet that they did not even look at it. It is just a standard item.
Now I know why I never go to the dealer for anything other than recalls and warranty issues. I will stick with my local guy to work on my truck.
He called me about 4 hours later and said that is was almost done but there were a few service items that I should have taken care of. He starts off by telling me I need new brake pads, rotors turned and new brake fluid. I told him thanks but either I will do it myself or have a brake shop do them. He then tells me that I need to replace two nuts. Huh? I asked him what he was talking about. He paused and he said that he thought it meant lug nuts. Again, huh? He then calls another guy on his other phone and then tells me that there are two nuts that I have to replace when I replace the pads.
The second thing he wanted me to do was to flush the transmission (I have 40k miles). He told me that it looks like it has never been changed. I told him that I had it flushed and replaced 3000 miles ago. He said maybe it was some residual left over. Huh?
The last item was the air filter. I have a K&N with the sticker alerting them to not even open it up. He said it needs to be replaced. I told him that I just cleaned it 1 month ago and to please tell the guys to read. Do not open up my air filter. I can bet that they did not even look at it. It is just a standard item.
Now I know why I never go to the dealer for anything other than recalls and warranty issues. I will stick with my local guy to work on my truck.
I guess you know by now that you should STAY AWAY from Greenway.....(cool, that rhymed!) I bought my Ranger from them back when they were Mcinerney and got royally taken. When I got my F150 it came with a chrome grill and I changed it to the PTM. I took it to Greenway to see how much they'd charge to paint it and the shop guy told me that his 'friend' could paint it for me for cheaper....So I ask how cheap, he calls his friend and tells me $135. So I go to Don Reid where I bought the truck and the shop price to paint it was $105! And that was with a full warranty! The body shop guy at DR said that they get a lot of work from Greenway because of how horrible that place is.
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Hey Blue...
I guess you know by now that you should STAY AWAY from Greenway.....(cool, that rhymed!) I bought my Ranger from them back when they were Mcinerney and got royally taken. When I got my F150 it came with a chrome grill and I changed it to the PTM. I took it to Greenway to see how much they'd charge to paint it and the shop guy told me that his 'friend' could paint it for me for cheaper....So I ask how cheap, he calls his friend and tells me $135. So I go to Don Reid where I bought the truck and the shop price to paint it was $105! And that was with a full warranty! The body shop guy at DR said that they get a lot of work from Greenway because of how horrible that place is.
I guess you know by now that you should STAY AWAY from Greenway.....(cool, that rhymed!) I bought my Ranger from them back when they were Mcinerney and got royally taken. When I got my F150 it came with a chrome grill and I changed it to the PTM. I took it to Greenway to see how much they'd charge to paint it and the shop guy told me that his 'friend' could paint it for me for cheaper....So I ask how cheap, he calls his friend and tells me $135. So I go to Don Reid where I bought the truck and the shop price to paint it was $105! And that was with a full warranty! The body shop guy at DR said that they get a lot of work from Greenway because of how horrible that place is.
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From: Vernon, NY
I haven't been to my dealer in like 9 months, maybe more... but that was because the A/C compressor needed to be swapped out. They also tried convincing me I should bring it to them. I said, "no".
I've never had a problem doing regular maintainance on vehicles... there is nothing special or secretive about them.
I've never had a problem doing regular maintainance on vehicles... there is nothing special or secretive about them.
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From: Orlando, FL
The only reason I took it there was because I bought it there and they ahve a large service department. I actually bought my truck from Greenway and it was a great experience. I only dealt with the internet sales group, though. I had previously bought all of my Fords from Don Reid but I had problems with them dealing with my wife's old Ford Contour.
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From: Scottsdale, Arizona
Have you found any good local places that are trustworthy? Im still trying to find someplace nice. 5 Star Ford sucks.
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From: wisconsin
in my best greasy hillybilly voice "you see what had happened was your carburetor belt broke caused the motor to run lean heated up your muffler bearings enough to melt your blinkers all the blinker fluid run right on the ground this aint fixin to be cheap"
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You are absolutely right, and it took a Blackstone Labs oil analysis to prove what I suspected all along.
Maybe cold air intake systems seal better, but the OEM drop-in K&Ns on both my F150 and Jeep were crap, and I will never use an OEM drop-in K&N ever again. The K&N allowed as much dirt into my engine at 3,000 miles than a paper element would have in 10,000 miles of driving!
I got concerned after my oil started getting really dark and grimey looking after just 2,500 miles of driving, while it used to look like honey at 5,000 miles before I changed the filter. I also found dust and dirt particles in the intake tube past the air filter.
Once I went back to the paper element on both vehicles, everything returned back to normal.
Maybe cold air intake systems seal better, but the OEM drop-in K&Ns on both my F150 and Jeep were crap, and I will never use an OEM drop-in K&N ever again. The K&N allowed as much dirt into my engine at 3,000 miles than a paper element would have in 10,000 miles of driving!
I got concerned after my oil started getting really dark and grimey looking after just 2,500 miles of driving, while it used to look like honey at 5,000 miles before I changed the filter. I also found dust and dirt particles in the intake tube past the air filter.
Once I went back to the paper element on both vehicles, everything returned back to normal.
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I got roped by the dealer a little while back... truck had to go in for a stuck valve which was under warranty. Got a call saying my brakes were metal on metal. Which they were pretty bad. Just had them replaced them to save me the headache.
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Greenway Ford FTMFL.
The fun starts about halfway down the page...
http://www.expeditionforum.com/forum...&threadid=3437
The fun starts about halfway down the page...
http://www.expeditionforum.com/forum...&threadid=3437