| Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794676] |
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794678 ] |
Sun, 17 February 2008 20:57 |
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On 2008-02-17, Scott in SoCal <scottenaztlan [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> I guess I'm crossing Rydell Chevrolet off my list of places to have my
> car serviced...
I was about to argue that we don't know whether he was an employee - the
article doesn't say, but they did say in the video that he was.
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794693 ] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 01:52 |
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On Feb 17, 1:42=A0pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> I guess I'm crossing Rydell Chevrolet off my list of places to have my
> car serviced...
>
> http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=3Dnews/local&i d=3D5961735
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> VAN NUYS (KABC) -- A valet at a Van Nuys Chevrolet dealership crashed
> a high performance Z06 Corvette Friday night.
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> The driver apparently went for a joy ride in the vehicle. He crashed
> into several parked cars on Oxnard Street near Van Nuys Boulevard
> around 9:30 p.m., but walked away from the wreckage unharmed.
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> The accident happened just a short distance from Rydell Chevrolet,
> according to Los Angeles police.
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> The driver declined being taken to a hospital despite some minor
> injuries.
> --
> Please don't give financial rewards to trolls -
> DO NOT CLICK on any URLs containing "calrog.com"
I'll cross the Corvette off my list of cars to rent on my next visit
to California. :)
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794724 ] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 14:22 |
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On Feb 17, 2:42=A0pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> I guess I'm crossing Rydell Chevrolet off my list of places to have my
> car serviced...
I went to a bar/restaurant and valeted my Vette about 10 years ago.
While I can definitively prove it, I'm 95% sure the valet drove my
vette around. When I went to claim my car, they couldn't find my
keys on their board. The guy asked me to come out to see if I could
find them. While I'm looking at the board, a DIFFERENT valet than who
I gave my ticket to comes driving up in my car. It really didn't hit
me until I drove away at exactly what happened.
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794740 ] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 16:49 |
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On Feb 18, 5:22=A0am, Larry Bud <larrybud2... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2:42=A0pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I guess I'm crossing Rydell Chevrolet off my list of places to have my
> > car serviced...
>
> I went to a bar/restaurant and valeted my Vette about 10 years ago.
> While I can definitively prove it, I'm 95% sure the valet drove my
> vette around. =A0 When I went to claim my car, they couldn't find my
> keys on their board. =A0The guy asked me to come out to see if I could
> find them. =A0While I'm looking at the board, a DIFFERENT valet than who
> I gave my ticket to comes driving up in my car. =A0 It really didn't hit
> me until I drove away at exactly what happened.
Several years ago a Spokane dealership had much the same happen. High
performance car (can't remember the type), dropped off, picked up with
several hundred miles added to the speedo plus problems with motor and
tranny that hadn't been there. Fortunately the guy had recorded his
mileage coming in and noted it going out. That wound up in court.
Dealer lost but I don't recall the settlement.
Harry K
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794741 ] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 16:56 |
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On Feb 18, 10:49=A0am, Harry K <turnkey4... [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 18, 5:22=A0am, Larry Bud <larrybud2... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 17, 2:42=A0pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > I guess I'm crossing Rydell Chevrolet off my list of places to have my=
> > > car serviced...
>
> > I went to a bar/restaurant and valeted my Vette about 10 years ago.
> > While I can definitively prove it, I'm 95% sure the valet drove my
> > vette around. =A0 When I went to claim my car, they couldn't find my
> > keys on their board. =A0The guy asked me to come out to see if I could
> > find them. =A0While I'm looking at the board, a DIFFERENT valet than who=
> > I gave my ticket to comes driving up in my car. =A0 It really didn't hit=
> > me until I drove away at exactly what happened.
>
> Several years ago a Spokane dealership had much the same happen. =A0High
> performance car (can't remember the type), dropped off, picked up with
> several hundred miles added to the speedo plus problems with motor and
> tranny that hadn't been there. Fortunately the guy had recorded his
> mileage coming in and noted it going out. =A0That wound up in court.
> Dealer lost but I don't recall the settlement.
>
> Harry K
Bam Margera has someone mess up his Lambo doing donuts when it was
being transported for the race. He got his revenge, but it sucks this
stuff happens.
http://www.motoraddicts.com/members/lifestyleaddict/blog/bam margeratrashesca=
r14196
or http://tinyurl.com/2usskf
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794773 ] |
Mon, 18 February 2008 22:06 |
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794829 ] |
Tue, 19 February 2008 07:33 |
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Scott in SoCal wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:22:33 -0800 (PST), Larry Bud
> <larrybud2002 [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 17, 2:42 pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I guess I'm crossing Rydell Chevrolet off my list of places to have my
>>> car serviced...
>> I went to a bar/restaurant and valeted my Vette about 10 years ago.
>> While I can definitively prove it, I'm 95% sure the valet drove my
>> vette around. When I went to claim my car, they couldn't find my
>> keys on their board. The guy asked me to come out to see if I could
>> find them. While I'm looking at the board, a DIFFERENT valet than who
>> I gave my ticket to comes driving up in my car. It really didn't hit
>> me until I drove away at exactly what happened.
>
> I haven't valeted a car since I saw "Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
If I'm driving a rental, I don't mind. If I'm driving my own car, I
avoid the valet.
- Peter
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794967 ] |
Wed, 20 February 2008 00:08 |
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Didn't Corvettes (starting maybe with the ZR1) useta come with a
"valet key" that hobbled the engine in some way to lead them not
unto temptation? (Also useful for leadfooted young scions of the
family who wanted to borrow the good car, etc.) Whatever happened to
that idea?
--Joe
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #794975 ] |
Wed, 20 February 2008 00:36 |
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On Feb 19, 3:08=A0pm, Ad absurdum per aspera <jtc... [at] california.com>
wrote:
> Didn't Corvettes (starting maybe with the ZR1) useta come with a
> "valet key" that hobbled =A0the engine in some way to lead them not
> unto =A0temptation? =A0(Also useful for leadfooted young scions of the
> family who wanted to borrow the good car, etc.) =A0 Whatever happened to
> that idea?
>
> --Joe
My ZR1 had it. Prolly too expensive for most cases, but they had a
"low-power" programming on the chip anyways - and it was a completely
different engine than all other Vettes. The new standard Vettes have
as much power.
Security Chevrolet dropped the hood on my '81 while the engine was
jacked up, punching a hole with the air cleaner bolt. Then tried to
tell me it was like that when I brought it in. Then did a shitty job
fixing it.
I think it was this place that had a rollover with damage on every
panel, a year or two ago, new car test drive:
http://www.salvage-vehicles.com/wrecked-corvettes.asp
jg
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #795009 ] |
Wed, 20 February 2008 02:27 |
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #795019 ] |
Wed, 20 February 2008 02:47 |
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> Security Chevrolet dropped the hood on my '81 while the engine was
> jacked up, punching a hole with the air cleaner bolt. =A0Then tried to
> tell me it was like that when I brought it in. =A0Then did a shitty job
> fixing it.
I occasionally read some Vette forums, and there was one guy in which
the dealer dropped his poor Vette of the hydraulic lift...
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| Re: Dealership Employee Crashes Customer's Corvette While Joyriding [message #795188 ] |
Thu, 21 February 2008 01:27 |
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On Feb 19, 5:27=A0pm, Scott in SoCal <scottenazt... [at] yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:08:08 -0800 (PST), Ad absurdum per aspera
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> <jtc... [at] california.com> wrote:
> >Didn't Corvettes (starting maybe with the ZR1) useta come with a
> >"valet key" that hobbled =A0the engine in some way to lead them not
> >unto =A0temptation?
>
> If they did, they stopped doing it by 2005.
Details: http://www.web-cars.com/corvette/zr-1-2.php (among many
others found by googling zr1 valet key ). And more zr1 details:
http://www.zr1netregistry.com/firstking.htm
Mine was Quasar Blue. I paid $52K out the door with 5K miles on it,
marked down $20K from $68K list at the end of the '92 model year. I
believe it was leased by a car magazine company before I had it. You
can believe I had trepidations about where to have it serviced.
jg
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[at] home.com is bogus.
Now I'm sad.
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