Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was Mazda's biggest fan until it hit 36,000 miles. Worked flawlessly until the warranty expired. Then it was the car from hell, breaking down every month or so with the repair bill (plus towing) eating up 1/3 of my income. When I was getting my car insurance transferred to my new Ford, the State Farm guy on the line asked if it was falling apart regularly. His Mazda did too. By the way, I went through 5 batteries in 4 years. They gave me a free new battery every time, and indicated that all of the batteries of late were worthless. Buy American. They can't afford to admit that their vehicles are crap, so they will fix them. Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana USA On Sep 5, 2012, at 19:52, Richard Wasserman <disfromage at ameritech.net> wrote: > Tina, > > I had a similar experience with Mazda. I was driving to Chicago from > coincidentally, Portland, with my son in his car when the transmission > went out. We had the car towed 100 miles to a dealer in Portland who said > that because it was 2 days before Labor Day it would take at least a week > to repair. I said that was unacceptable because we had to be in Chicago > for our other son's graduation. They said the part had to come from > California and that was the best they could do. My response was to tell > them I understood, and then I asked for the name and phone number of the > president of Mazda US to see if he could help. The entire service > department disappeared into a back room for about 15 minutes and when they > returned I was told the car would be ready the day after Labor Day,they > would give us a loaner vehicle, and they put us up in a hotel for the > duration. And they changed the oil without charge. > > I hope you enjoy Nowhere, Kentucky! Some parts of KY are beautiful?are you > lucky enough to be in one? > > Richard Wasserman > > www.richardwasserman.net > > http://richardwasserman.tumblr.com > > > On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > >> PESO: >> >> This is not how we planned on spending the day: >> >> http://www.pbase.com/image/145870152 >> >> or week. Toyota said it would take one week to get the part they need to >> fix our 1989 Land Cruiser. The part is Portland, OR, where our son lives. >> He is picking the part up at the Toyota dealer tomorrow and FedExing it >> overnight. Why can't Toyota do that!! >> >> In the meantime, we are in Nowhere, Kentucky, with only fast food >> restaurants within walking distance. It's going to be a long couple of >> days! >> >> Tina >> >> -- >> Tina Manley, ASMP >> www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information