Chevy has decided to let me get another car

[dagdaenigma]

The Chevy dealership has been given the request by GM to stop all repairs on my 2003 Malibu. The dealership is offering me a "transfer equity" deal. This will allow me to chose another vehicle from their lot and have the price of the Malibu applied to that vehicle. Several calls to Detroit and lemonlaw. com, including GM Customer assistance seems to have created an enviornment which put pressure on the dealer to offer me this "transfer equity" option. The dealer told me that GM now wants to find out what this problem is and that is why they stopped all repairs on the vehicle. I guess you have to go to the top first and work your way down. The Malibu must have been a one of a kind lemon from day one. I will be glad to be rid of it. The car was really a death trap waiting for a victim that would lose their cool in an emergency situation. It certainly took long enough for GM to wake up to the fact that they cannot find out what is wrong and thus cannot repair it.

[IceShaver511]

Did you have a loan? Get your money back, and Buy from a differnt company.

[dagdaenigma]

Originally Posted by IceShaver511

Did you have a loan? Get your money back, and Buy from a differnt company.

Apparently what they are going to allow me to do is to trade the bogus Malibu for another car. From what I understand dealerships rarely do this type of thing. As I heard from one of GM's Excutive assistants in Detroit, " GM is in the business of selling cars, not refunding them". I am sure that GM has come to the conclusion that they cannot find or fix the problem that my Malibu was having. It is also coincidental that I enlisted the aid of a legal group to file against GM just hours before I heard from the dealership about the deal that they wanted to make with me. This is actually a trade for the same model or more recent model (2004 Malibu) or trade up to an Impala. This is what I wanted from the very beginning when the problem happened the first time.

[benwa]

Originally Posted by dagdaenigma

The Chevy dealership has been given the request by GM to stop all repairs on my 2003 Malibu. The dealership is offering me a "transfer equity" deal. This will allow me to chose another vehicle from their lot and have the price of the Malibu applied to that vehicle. Several calls to Detroit and lemonlaw. com, including GM Customer assistance seems to have created an enviornment which put pressure on the dealer to offer me this "transfer equity" option. The dealer told me that GM now wants to find out what this problem is and that is why they stopped all repairs on the vehicle. I guess you have to go to the top first and work your way down. The Malibu must have been a one of a kind lemon from day one. I will be glad to be rid of it. The car was really a death trap waiting for a victim that would lose their cool in an emergency situation. It certainly took long enough for GM to wake up to the fact that they cannot find out what is wrong and thus cannot repair it.

A friend of mine had bought a brand new vw jetta and it was also a lemon. They offered him a new car also. But he found out through a lawyer that he would be able to sue the manufactuer. He received all of his money back plus a 5-7 thousand dollars extra for having to take the car back several times.

[joshzr2]

I had a similar situation when I bought a 96 Cavalier Z24 a few years ago. A week after I bought it, the tranny went out. The dealership replaced that free of charge since I had just recently bought the car. A few months later, I started having all kinds of minor engine problems. I knew right away that it was a timing issue, but had no way of repairing it myself. I took the car to the dealer's shop about a dozen times and ended up spending about $1000 dollars and it still wasn't fixed because they didn't think I knew what I was talking about when I told them it was timing. They never even checked it. So, I called GM Customer Service and told them how pathetic that dealership's mechanics are. The guy who sold me the car was a good friend of mine, so when I went in there a day or so later to talk to him, the Service Mgr. came out to the showroom and started yelling at me and tried to attack me because GM actually called him to tell him about what I had said. Anyway, GM sent me a refund check for the total amount of all of the repairs and allowed me to take the car to a mechanic of my choice to have the car fixed at their expense. It ended up only costing about $100 to have it repaired and it was done in less than a day.