04-04-2018, 04:34 PM | #67 |
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I have hundreds of these types of stories from my days at the dealership.
Setting an expectation with the customer is crucial to making a solid connection between confidence and trust levels with their property. Setting a standard with your techs to not treat other peoples property except with the respect and care that it deserves is also another important point. However these guys are not robots... Cursing? they don't know they are being watched via a camera and spoke to each other as some colleagues and friends do. Cracked rim? he took the turn at what seemed to be a normal turning speed. I doubt that was what damaged the wheel. Also makes me believe this video is even on the internet because the customer damaged the wheel him/herself and had video with sub par service thinking the dealer would accept blame about the wheel. Getting iced cream? I wouldn't care if they did in my car. HOWEVER, it is not my car and i wouldn't expect a customer to just be ok with their property being used for personal trips to wendy's by the technicians. I don't believe, even though its pretty harmless, that that is ok to do. Lastly, The service if not performed should be rectified immediately. there is no excuse for saying a service was performed if it wasnt. |
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04-04-2018, 04:51 PM | #68 |
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20’ amg wheels can definitely get damage on a curb like that. There are times of course when it wouldn’t happen but with 4600 pound car on 20’ wheels you be at a certain angle at any more then a crawl and wheel is cracked. I’d never enter a driveway like that with 20’.
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04-04-2018, 05:28 PM | #69 | |
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As I previously observed (as did some others), the tone of the dealership is established at the top. While I couldn't tell from the YouTube site that I visited if the dealership ever made amends, clearly there needs to be management acceptance of responsibility. It didn't seem like that was happening. As for the damaged wheel -- who really knows? Did the mechanic drive the car over the kerb? Is that something you wouldn't mind having some yobbos do to your car?
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The second part you touched upon makes me feel like you have not worked in a service department at a dealership, a kitchen in a restaurant or in the customer service workplace before. I mean no offense to that statement, i just know based off first hand experience that these workplace environments, like what i saw in the video are a common setting. Lastly, No, i have no proof that the turn into the dealership parking lot, at which seemed to be a normal turning speed caused or didn't cause the cracked rim. However, maybe since that was one of the commonly used entrances for that dealership, multiple mercedes with equivalent sized wheels using that entrance, maybe each time someone does use that entrance they crack one of the fancy AMG wheels. Maybe the dealership needs to remove the heightened curb there to make sure this doesn't happen. I didn't see anything wrong with the way the car was driven past the use of a personal food run. I wouldn't say i'm right and you're wrong, its simply opinion. I hope no offense is taken as i mean none by it. |
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04-05-2018, 11:02 AM | #73 |
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"Not doing one's current job" and "defrauding a customer" are two different things. Most of us who have not worked for an automobile dealership understand the difference.
These technicians were crooks and liars. Their dishonesty got their dealership into (at least) PR hot water.
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I wouldn't want anyone from a dealership driving around picking up frosty's in my car. Idiots.
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Funny, this video was on the local breakfast news show today in Toronto. The hosts were debating whether or not it was a big deal. This may have been mentioned in this thread already, but apparently this happened in 2015 and the dealer already dealt with the individuals involved. Crazy it is getting around so much now given how little actually happened - IMO anyway.
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Well, I showed Mercedes right away after it happened but they said they can’t do much maybe redo the service. I said I want bigger action to be taken. They said ok go deal with your lawyers. So for almost 1.5 years my lawyers were messaging and sending demand letter to mb CANADA without any replies
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My lawyers also told me not to share the video anywhere until we hear back from Mercedes because if we share the video there’s not much to negotiate so I held onto the video and then after two years when I realize they are not replying or even interested I just decided to post it to raise awareness. https://jalopnik.com/canadian-merced...g-c-1825054515 |
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