LOL moment @ acura dealer
06-14-2008, 12:54 PM
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LOL moment @ acura dealer
I took in my car for some recall service work and my VSA light is on. The technician goes to move my car and says nice Type-s.. I looked at him and said seriously bro, you work for acura.. this isn't a type-s..
The service writer was also looking at it from the window and said wow thats one clean type-s
I looked at him and said it sure is clean but not a type-s
I had told the guy its a 04 TL 6 speed. Sometimes I wonder if people are listening to what your saying.
The service writer was also looking at it from the window and said wow thats one clean type-s
I looked at him and said it sure is clean but not a type-s
I had told the guy its a 04 TL 6 speed. Sometimes I wonder if people are listening to what your saying.
06-14-2008, 01:31 PM
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the technician was sitting inside my car....... theres nothing type-s about my interior
06-14-2008, 01:41 PM
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and you trust them with your car???
06-14-2008, 02:06 PM
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I am not paying for a VSA mod. 
06-14-2008, 02:11 PM
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Well you could always leave New Jersey in search of more intelligent life...
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06-14-2008, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by trancemission
Dealers will never know the TL as well as we all do
06-14-2008, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Papaman677
Don't tell me it was Park Ave. That's where I bought my car and bring it to be serviced.
yes it is
06-14-2008, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Distorted Reality
Never had an experience like that at a dealership, but I get asked all the time if my car is a bmw. 
06-14-2008, 07:02 PM
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Never had an experience like that at a dealership, but I get asked all the time if my car is a bmw.
WtF
06-14-2008, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by ecliptics
i get bimmer too.. but i dont see the resemblance?
06-15-2008, 03:01 AM
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Originally Posted by jptl04
werd!! funny, when i went to a dealer to check out the new type-s. i knew more about it than the salesguy showing me the car! I..... was telling him what features it had and what the differences over the base model and older TL's were. the guy was like "wow! you really now this car" knowledge is power...... acurazine rocks!!!!!
my dad was like "he knows more about the car than you do, maybe he should get the commision" and his exscuse was that he just started at the Acura dealership and he's actually from the Infiniti dealership down the street.
I recently found out that he was fired. haha
06-15-2008, 04:52 AM
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Hell, keep talking up the TL-S thing, then when they bring you your car after the service work ask where your TL-S is...
This is an 04... where is my TL-S ???
This is an 04... where is my TL-S ???
06-15-2008, 06:20 AM
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this isn't even funny...happens to me all the time. I have to always educate the staff at my local Acura dealership about their products 
last time i went up to a salesman and asked if they had a 6MT 08 TL, he said let's check...so we go outside and he starts looking through a bunch of parked non Type-S 08 TLs...i'm like it's not possible for any of these to be a 6MT, you can't get a 6MT unless it's a Type-S since 2007...he's like sure you can. lol...
then once at the service department they tell me there was a recall on my brakes (squeeling)...i say i have a 6 speed with the brembos, he's like oh your car has the brembo option? i say well every 6 speed has brembos. (he was very suprised ).
another time i was in the parts department and the guy there asks me what year my car was, i say 2006, he asks is it a type-s?...lol he was also suprised at what i told him, said he never heard that before...
this is just what i thought of right now, it has happend dozens more times, not just at my acura dealer eather....it's rediculous.
last time i went up to a salesman and asked if they had a 6MT 08 TL, he said let's check...so we go outside and he starts looking through a bunch of parked non Type-S 08 TLs...i'm like it's not possible for any of these to be a 6MT, you can't get a 6MT unless it's a Type-S since 2007...he's like sure you can. lol...
then once at the service department they tell me there was a recall on my brakes (squeeling)...i say i have a 6 speed with the brembos, he's like oh your car has the brembo option? i say well every 6 speed has brembos. (he was very suprised
).another time i was in the parts department and the guy there asks me what year my car was, i say 2006, he asks is it a type-s?...lol he was also suprised at what i told him, said he never heard that before...
this is just what i thought of right now, it has happend dozens more times, not just at my acura dealer eather....it's rediculous.
06-15-2008, 07:24 AM
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I told the service writer "I am an automotive technician and the car is currently up to date with service" He hands me my repair order and he had noted on there that its due for a 45k mile service.....
Same guy who i said Its a 04 6 speed.. He looks out the window and says wow thats one clean type-s...
Like I said I wonder.
But if I go to starbucks and theres a bunch of car meets going on everyone says "check out that slammed Type-s" I just say yeah I down graded from a 3.5 to a 3.2 due to the price of gas...
With any kind of humor on this. Ive been telling my co-workers and friends that this is whats going to happen.
-Acura moves in my car into the service area
-Acura technicians surround my car because its dropped hahha
-They say "Open up the hood lets see whats under it"
-They see a 3.2 engine and say "Holy shit nuts this guy downgraded to a 3.2 from a 3.5 this shit is mad wack ass"
-Then they go on with their lives..
Same guy who i said Its a 04 6 speed.. He looks out the window and says wow thats one clean type-s...
Like I said I wonder.
But if I go to starbucks and theres a bunch of car meets going on everyone says "check out that slammed Type-s" I just say yeah I down graded from a 3.5 to a 3.2 due to the price of gas...
With any kind of humor on this. Ive been telling my co-workers and friends that this is whats going to happen.
-Acura moves in my car into the service area
-Acura technicians surround my car because its dropped hahha
-They say "Open up the hood lets see whats under it"
-They see a 3.2 engine and say "Holy shit nuts this guy downgraded to a 3.2 from a 3.5 this shit is mad wack ass"
-Then they go on with their lives..
06-15-2008, 10:23 AM
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GO DAWGS!! SICK'EM!!
the scary part is the tech and the services tech can't even tell the differences between BASE TL and TL-S...and they are working on peoples acura's
but too funny...
but too funny...
06-15-2008, 11:37 AM
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Originally Posted by 04WDPSeDaN
I took in my car for some recall service work and my VSA light is on. The technician goes to move my car and says nice Type-s.. I looked at him and said seriously bro, you work for acura.. this isn't a type-s..
The service writer was also looking at it from the window and said wow thats one clean type-s
I looked at him and said it sure is clean but not a type-s
I had told the guy its a 04 TL 6 speed. Sometimes I wonder if people are listening to what your saying.
The service writer was also looking at it from the window and said wow thats one clean type-s
I looked at him and said it sure is clean but not a type-s
I had told the guy its a 04 TL 6 speed. Sometimes I wonder if people are listening to what your saying.
Whats even funnier is that the technicians doing your recall service work for the vsa light also believed you had a Type S
06-15-2008, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by vincethe1
this isn't even funny...happens to me all the time. I have to always educate the staff at my local Acura dealership about their products
last time i went up to a salesman and asked if they had a 6MT 08 TL, he said let's check...so we go outside and he starts looking through a bunch of parked non Type-S 08 TLs...i'm like it's not possible for any of these to be a 6MT, you can't get a 6MT unless it's a Type-S since 2007...he's like sure you can. lol...
then once at the service department they tell me there was a recall on my brakes (squeeling)...i say i have a 6 speed with the brembos, he's like oh your car has the brembo option? i say well every 6 speed has brembos. (he was very suprised ).
another time i was in the parts department and the guy there asks me what year my car was, i say 2006, he asks is it a type-s?...lol he was also suprised at what i told him, said he never heard that before...
this is just what i thought of right now, it has happend dozens more times, not just at my acura dealer eather....it's rediculous.
last time i went up to a salesman and asked if they had a 6MT 08 TL, he said let's check...so we go outside and he starts looking through a bunch of parked non Type-S 08 TLs...i'm like it's not possible for any of these to be a 6MT, you can't get a 6MT unless it's a Type-S since 2007...he's like sure you can. lol...
then once at the service department they tell me there was a recall on my brakes (squeeling)...i say i have a 6 speed with the brembos, he's like oh your car has the brembo option? i say well every 6 speed has brembos. (he was very suprised
).another time i was in the parts department and the guy there asks me what year my car was, i say 2006, he asks is it a type-s?...lol he was also suprised at what i told him, said he never heard that before...
this is just what i thought of right now, it has happend dozens more times, not just at my acura dealer eather....it's rediculous.
If you go to Acura of LV for service you should go to Dave Ellis, he's pretty cool. We always went to him when my car was sitll in Vegas and he always took care of us.
Just be glad you dont have an Infiniti. One of the sales guys at Towbin Infiniti drove our G around for a week without us or the dealer knowing. Service there always sucked.
06-15-2008, 03:48 PM
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06-15-2008, 05:25 PM
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haha well, i wouldn't quite blame them...not a lot of employees seem to check out sites like Azine...we're all just...ONE OF A KIND...
freaking mod whores we all are lol
freaking mod whores we all are lol
06-15-2008, 06:28 PM
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well to be fair, from the outside his car probably looks pretty damn close to a type S. People see what looks like a type S, it's a type S, and they dont analyze it further to realize the interior is not a type S. Furthermore, they probably see 100's of base & typeS interiors a day to the point where it becomes one big blur. The last laugh will be on him if they work on his car thinking it's a type S and install the wrong part or do the wrong service or something.
06-15-2008, 06:56 PM
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LOL...yeah, at the end of the service, I would be like Zohan: " What is this 06 TL? This is not my car! I cannot make bing, bang, boom in this car!" 
06-15-2008, 08:15 PM
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Originally Posted by darksom1
LOL...yeah, at the end of the service, I would be like Zohan: " What is this 06 TL? This is not my car! I cannot make bing, bang, boom in this car!"
OMFG hahahahahah that was a great movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
06-15-2008, 08:50 PM
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I have had dealer service managers tell me that the trans fluid is dirty all the while they know it is NOT NORMAL for trans fluid to be changed every 6 months or 8K miles....but they know they will have to warranty the trans.....lol