Car Crap
It's been over a week now since I filled out the paperwork for my car. The one I wanted had to be transferred from another dealer, so I had to wait a little while for that to happen, but I was told it shouldn't take more than a week. I was hoping to have the car by last Saturday but...I never heard anything. Then I found out on Tuesday that the transfer order had been set up, and that they should have it by, well, today.
Well, it turns out the other dealer lied to my dealer--said they would trade the car to them, and then sold it a day later anyways. This this the e-mail I got from my dealer:
I just left you a voicemail explaining the situation. We were lied to by the other dealer, we were promised the car. The Manager would not return our calls on Monday or Tuesday. Finally, he called me back and said he had sold the car. I have had my owner call and complain to their owner.
I am truly sorry, but this situation was out of our hands as we were lied to.
I have attached the build of the two MINI Coopers with navigation available. The second attachment just the British Racing Green is still available. The pure silver one is in transit so it would be about 7-9 days before it was in the US and at our dealer.
Please let me know as soon as you can.
Once again, I am truly sorry for the behavior of the other dealer.
She also left me a voice mail explaining the situation in a little more detail. I've been really satisfied in my dealings with this dealer so far, so I'm inclined to believe them that the other dealer screwed them over.
The green one she mentioned is nice, and is the color I originally wanted, but it's a little out of my price range. It's loaded up with a bunch of options I don't care about (satellite radio, garage door opener) and at least one that I'm actively hostile toward (xenon headlamps--I fucking hate those). The silver one seems reasonable though, and that's a color I can certainly live with. She said she'd contact some people to try to rush it through customs and get it to me ASAP. So that's something anyways...
After work I tried to stop at Trader Joe's on the way home, but it turns out that one closes at 9:00 and I got there right on the dot of. Got back in my car and...it wouldn't start, even though it had been running just 30 seconds before. It could almost start but it just wasn't quite making it. I'm pretty sure it was the battery--it was showing just a hair under 12V, and I've known for a while that it needed replacing. I sat there for a little while and then tried again and it worked, thankfully. Otherwise I might've had to have called AAA since there was hardly anyone else around and I hate harassing people for a jump start.
Since I couldn't get anything for dinner from Trader Joe's I decided to stop at the supermarket near the apartment. For some reason the back entrance I normally use was completely blocked off. I hope this means they're finally repairing it (it looked like Godzilla had stepped there or something) though it hardly matters anymore since we're moving out of this place in a few weeks. But I had to drive around to the front entrance. The universe continued to conspire against me by putting a tour bus full of middle school-aged kids right in the middle of the goddamn parking lot. They were getting off the bus and swarming around the parking lot like small animals that I needed to avoid. And then the checkout line took forever and klq34jtQ#$%:KLJ%:^YJ$%Y%J:@:#%LM@$^ I HATE EVERYTHING. Didn't get home until 10:00.
And then my computer was dead. It was powered on, but completely unresponsive, even to pings. Did a hard reboot and when it started the CPU fan ran like a jet engine. After booting my hardware monitor showed the CPU at 52°C which is pretty hot. Though that shouldn't be hot enough to crash the machine. I opened the side of the case to get some more air flow and it's since cooled to 45°C. Still on the hot side, but I'm just using the stock heatsink/fan so this is probably about typical. It was really damn hot today, and the A/C wasn't on when I got home, so maybe it could've overheated. Though from my logs it looks like it was up until about 8:00 so...no idea.
Well, it turns out the other dealer lied to my dealer--said they would trade the car to them, and then sold it a day later anyways. This this the e-mail I got from my dealer:
I just left you a voicemail explaining the situation. We were lied to by the other dealer, we were promised the car. The Manager would not return our calls on Monday or Tuesday. Finally, he called me back and said he had sold the car. I have had my owner call and complain to their owner.
I am truly sorry, but this situation was out of our hands as we were lied to.
I have attached the build of the two MINI Coopers with navigation available. The second attachment just the British Racing Green is still available. The pure silver one is in transit so it would be about 7-9 days before it was in the US and at our dealer.
Please let me know as soon as you can.
Once again, I am truly sorry for the behavior of the other dealer.
She also left me a voice mail explaining the situation in a little more detail. I've been really satisfied in my dealings with this dealer so far, so I'm inclined to believe them that the other dealer screwed them over.
The green one she mentioned is nice, and is the color I originally wanted, but it's a little out of my price range. It's loaded up with a bunch of options I don't care about (satellite radio, garage door opener) and at least one that I'm actively hostile toward (xenon headlamps--I fucking hate those). The silver one seems reasonable though, and that's a color I can certainly live with. She said she'd contact some people to try to rush it through customs and get it to me ASAP. So that's something anyways...
After work I tried to stop at Trader Joe's on the way home, but it turns out that one closes at 9:00 and I got there right on the dot of. Got back in my car and...it wouldn't start, even though it had been running just 30 seconds before. It could almost start but it just wasn't quite making it. I'm pretty sure it was the battery--it was showing just a hair under 12V, and I've known for a while that it needed replacing. I sat there for a little while and then tried again and it worked, thankfully. Otherwise I might've had to have called AAA since there was hardly anyone else around and I hate harassing people for a jump start.
Since I couldn't get anything for dinner from Trader Joe's I decided to stop at the supermarket near the apartment. For some reason the back entrance I normally use was completely blocked off. I hope this means they're finally repairing it (it looked like Godzilla had stepped there or something) though it hardly matters anymore since we're moving out of this place in a few weeks. But I had to drive around to the front entrance. The universe continued to conspire against me by putting a tour bus full of middle school-aged kids right in the middle of the goddamn parking lot. They were getting off the bus and swarming around the parking lot like small animals that I needed to avoid. And then the checkout line took forever and klq34jtQ#$%:KLJ%:^YJ$%Y%J:@:#%LM@$^ I HATE EVERYTHING. Didn't get home until 10:00.
And then my computer was dead. It was powered on, but completely unresponsive, even to pings. Did a hard reboot and when it started the CPU fan ran like a jet engine. After booting my hardware monitor showed the CPU at 52°C which is pretty hot. Though that shouldn't be hot enough to crash the machine. I opened the side of the case to get some more air flow and it's since cooled to 45°C. Still on the hot side, but I'm just using the stock heatsink/fan so this is probably about typical. It was really damn hot today, and the A/C wasn't on when I got home, so maybe it could've overheated. Though from my logs it looks like it was up until about 8:00 so...no idea.