Where I use to work, I drove a =
Ford 1 ton diesel. One winter morning =
after
it had some work done on it at a Ford dealer, the service manager =
called me
and said they couldn't get it started and was their some trick to it. So =
I asked
if they waited for the glow plug light to go off and yes they had, then =
I asked
if they plugged the block heater in over night. "Block heater? What's =
that" I
then told him "There's this little cord sticking out of the grill that =
you plug
in to an outlet, and it keeps the engine warm." He then replied "Oh, I =
wondered
what that was for". They also replaced the brake drums with the wrong =
ones, we
never went back.
Andrew
1984 Westy "Speed Bump"
1996 VW =
Jetta
Trek "Little Beep" (the wife's car)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 12:52:13
-0500
From: Alan Bosch <
arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:
Re: Favorite Questions While Fixing the Bus (f)
Don't =
laugh! The
incompetence at the dealers is legendary. I once had a
parts =
guy at a
dealer here in Rochester tell me that the EuroVan was not
made in =
1988.
Which is true enough -- except I was asking for parts for my
1988 =
Vanagon
Wolfsburg. We went back and forth until I left in =
disgust,
never to
return.