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Chapter 7: The Gauntlet

Slicing and dicing has another benefit for dealers and manufacturers: it often makes your problem sound trivial. Car stalling, intermittent or otherwise, is a serious safety problem. But "We found an electrical short" sounds a lot less serious than "My car stalled while I was driving on the freeway!"

That’s the Way It Was Designed to Operate

The dealer is hoping that the consumer will be gullible enough to believe that the defect isn’t really a defect at all. This is just another attempt to fix the consumer’s head. Here is an example from an actual case:

Hard as such a story is to believe, there are many of them.

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A lady had a car that pulled severely to the right whenever she drove it. It pulled so hard that her arms and shoulders ached just holding the car in a straight line. The dealer told her that this was a designed-in safety feature to ensure that, if she fell asleep while driving, the vehicle would turn into the curb.

This is not something we made up; it actually happened. Truth is often stranger than fiction.

It’s Your Fault

The service writer or technician wants the owner to believe that he or she is too stupid to understand how to use a car. Dealerships actually want consumers to believe their cars are fine, and that if they only knew something about cars, there never would have been a problem in the first place.

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