<VV> Car Salesmen/Manufactures (no Corvair)

[Russ Moorhouse]

It's one thing to be yanked around by a new car salesmen, since you can 
always walk away from them.  I've found that it's usually not the salesmen 
at fault, but the practice of the whole dealership.  I even had the lost key 
routine pulled on me, when they saw I was they lost a sale and I was headed 
to another dealer.  That was in Annapolis, MD - maybe it's a common trick in 
the Navy area.  Over the years I have found a number of dealerships that 
have competent salesmen and I even saw one get fired, because they didn't 
bother to look up information concerning a car that a co-worker of mine 
inquired about it on their web site.  It was too much trouble to get up and 
go look at the sticker on the truck in the showroom.

The big rip-off , that you can't walk away from is when the manufacturer 
changes their production, but not their brochures.  I found this out when I 
purchased new Silverado P/U last year.  I was trading in my 2001 Silverado 
and getting basically the same thing in the new one, except for a few new 
items they didn't offer on the 2001.  I looked at a co-workers 2004, which 
was pretty much the same as I wanted in the 2005.  I went to the dealership 
and looked at what they had and picked up a brochure and went home and 
studied it.  The brochure listed all the new stuff that had been added and 
the only thing I could find that was dropped was the underhood light and the 
interior air filter.  Imagine my surprise  a few weeks later while washing 
the wheels on my new truck to see drum brakes on the rear.  I went back to 
the brochure and it showed disc brakes on the rear.  In all the data in it, 
nowhere did it state it had drum brakes on the rear.  It only mentioned ABS 
brakes.  My old truck had discs.  My co-worker's 2004 has disc brakes.

Try as I might I could never get an answer from GM as to why their sales 
brochure showed disc brakes in their break-down drawing, nor an answer as to 
why they changed.  They just led me around in a circle to the same people 
that had no answers to my questions and only stated they would file my 
complaint.

I try to be an informed buyer, but when the manufacturer miss leads you with 
their information, what can you do.  I don't know if I would not have bought 
this truck or not. Had I known it didn't have disc brakes, but I would have 
wanted to know before buying as to why they dropped them, and it had better 
been for a good reason as to why they took a step backwards.

Russ Moorhouse
'65 Corsa coupe 140 HP
Group Corvair Member
Corsa Member
Kent Island, MD