Auto Detailing horror story; Toronto Star
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Auto Detailing horror story; Toronto Star
Scary stuff. Lesson: wash your own car, or ensure you know who you are dealing with if you have someone wash it for you.
Auto shop customer's complaint: shades of Ferris Bueller | Toronto Star
Auto shop customer's complaint: shades of Ferris Bueller | Toronto Star
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Scary stuff. Lesson: wash your own car, or ensure you know who you are dealing with if you have someone wash it for you.
Auto shop customer's complaint: shades of Ferris Bueller | Toronto Star
Auto shop customer's complaint: shades of Ferris Bueller | Toronto Star
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You forgot to mention that these dealers are able to do this due to the fact that they are able to reset that 500km without an issue. Last year a sent in a 2013 Grand Caravan for an airbag reset after the module had a premature failure. (Was not involved in accident) Car was being "repaired" for a week. Excuses like the SRS module was on back order to wires being damaged on the ecu was used. The thing that they screwed up was that the van came in with 11xxx on the odo but for some reason the cluster was reset to 10xxx which was actually LOWER than what the owner purchased the van with. Front bumper had some major chipping on the bumper and interior was complementary cleaned to try to defer from the points.
Luckily when I went for pick up, I noticed the bumper and the gas gauge was much more than what we left it with. Got that covered for free and they made that service tech who altered the mileage fix it in front of me.
Luckily when I went for pick up, I noticed the bumper and the gas gauge was much more than what we left it with. Got that covered for free and they made that service tech who altered the mileage fix it in front of me.
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Are you kidding! If I leave you my car to clean it I expect ZERO additional miles on it!
There is no reason for you to use my car to run errands, or anything else for that matter.
On top of that if you read the article, the person in question doesn't have a valid license to drive let alone run a detail shop. . . . .
So yeah, not a chance I'd be ok with any of that.
There is no reason for you to use my car to run errands, or anything else for that matter.
On top of that if you read the article, the person in question doesn't have a valid license to drive let alone run a detail shop. . . . .
So yeah, not a chance I'd be ok with any of that.
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Are you kidding! If I leave you my car to clean it I expect ZERO additional miles on it!
There is no reason for you to use my car to run errands, or anything else for that matter.
On top of that if you read the article, the person in question doesn't have a valid license to drive let alone run a detail shop. . . . .
So yeah, not a chance I'd be ok with any of that.
There is no reason for you to use my car to run errands, or anything else for that matter.
On top of that if you read the article, the person in question doesn't have a valid license to drive let alone run a detail shop. . . . .
So yeah, not a chance I'd be ok with any of that.
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Even mechanics shouldn't be doing trips of more than a few kms as a test drive to verify a repair - there is no circumstance in which they should be on 500 km "test drives".
If dealers are able to reset digital odo's, as sctRota wrote above, that is very disturbing as well. How can you possibly trust the mileage on a used car if it's easy to dial up the number you want? I thought these were supposed to be more tamper-proof than analog ones - replacing the cluster being the only way to get a new odo reading?
If dealers are able to reset digital odo's, as sctRota wrote above, that is very disturbing as well. How can you possibly trust the mileage on a used car if it's easy to dial up the number you want? I thought these were supposed to be more tamper-proof than analog ones - replacing the cluster being the only way to get a new odo reading?
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Anyone with standalones who must leave their vehicle at a shop (for say an alignment) should always make sure to set the rev limiter to 2,000 RPM and the boost cut to 90 KPA.
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Just FYI, as of 2010, it's no longer possible to tamper with odometers on Mazda vehicles, even using the Mobile Mazda Diagnostic System (M-MDS) that dealers have. There used to be a function called Odometer Write, but it was eliminated a few years ago. In the event that an instrument cluster is replaced, the procedure is to record the current mileage on an official Mazda sticker onto the door sill and the new cluster starts fresh from zero.
Edit - unless there is an aftermarket OBDII module that can hack the CAN system that we aren't aware of... lol
Edit - unless there is an aftermarket OBDII module that can hack the CAN system that we aren't aware of... lol
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