get my car fixed

Get inspected.
Change battery.
Change lightbulb.
Take radio to be repaired.
Change oil.
Pop out dents.
Paint and mount bumper.
Fix horn.
Clean air filter.
Have tint removed (bc it is illegal in VA & it is bubbling) and have re-done.
Change brake pads and have rotors turned.
Check if alignment is needed.
Rotate tires.

And that’s about it :)

got it back on thursday night and it seems to be working fine. somehow the charge still hasnt shown up on my credit card. could i ever be so lucky? lol

it’s going to cost $2100 to fix my car and that doesn’t include any aesthetics or fixing the flap to the convertible top!!!! should have listened to my parents and bought a toyota!!!!!!!! _{so much for showing them! lol}

and told them it HAS to be done by friday. i think that is reasonable. the service guy called me to tell me that they are swamped and may not get to work on it til tomorrow or thursday. what is the point of having an appointment, then, hmmmm? just wondering (i tried to make an appointment last monday and they had said they were swamped, that i had to make the appt for YESTERDAY!). well, as long as it is all fixed by friday i won’t make a stink ;)

a list of service bulletins for my car – a whopping 20! for a car that is only 5 yrs old, that seems like a lot to me. anyway, i found a few things on there that seem to be suspiciously similar to the things i called VW about for service…. i wonder if they are supposed to charge to fix these things? anyone know?

oh! and i did a quick search for recalls for my car, too. and airbag light is one of them that still shows up! so HA to the attitude-y VW service guy. technically it is supposed to start ‘on or before july 31, 2008’ but the listing has been up for a few months already….

my final words for this entry … BUY A VW?? NEVER AGAIN!!!

an appt for next tuesday. they couldn’t fit me in this week (what kind of bullcrap is that? another reminder that they must not make VWs very well these days). the guy claimed there is no recall out on the airbag light, and i saw it myself on the VW site a while back. do recalls expire? i didn’t think so. he was a little on the rude side but whatever. i need to get this car fixed already.

They’ll send this to the car manufacturer and either they’ll have a solution or they send a new device to be installed.

When I contacted them today the story was suddenly different. They need to dump yet more data before anything can be decided. And even when that happens suddenly the installation is more time-consuming.

If they weren’t sure about this in the first place, why make promises ? Uff.

Well, I thought about this and decided not to stress about it now, to get all of this done last-minute, instead I’ll deal with it after my vacation.

This means I’ll have to check very carefully for the radio when I park the car for a while. But I think this will be okay.

should be dropped off this weekend. since b wont be using it after his surgery i can use his while mine gets (finally) fixed. can’t wait to see the bill…. _{oozing with sarcasm}

When I took my car in for its scheduled maintenance yesterday, I also told them about how I found it dead due to an empty battery a couple of days ago.

When it got returned to me, they told me, they couldn’t find anything wrong, that would do this, but that they had installed the latest updates, just in case.

Well, I had just parked the car back in its spot, gotten out… when I, by sheer luck, I noticed that the radio/GPS had turned itself on ! I then got back in and tried a few things and sure enough, sometimes when I close the door or open the door, it turns itself back on. That would of course empty the battery after a while.

So… I took the car back right away and told them this, their reply was “Yeah, that would do it…” So I had to return this morning, once again, so they could dump its data.

They’ll send this to the car manufacturer and either they’ll have a solution or they send a new device to be installed.

I hope this gets resolved soon, it’s no fun to get in the car and have it dead… Of course I’ll look closely now each time I get out, to check if anything turns itself on…

this was on my list ages ago and then i gave up… so now it’s back on….
things that need to be fixed:
1) AC – i just had a recharge and that same afternoon it was as if i did nothing! maybe a leak?
2) airbag light is always on – a recall, should be free
3) the convertible top is having issues
4) both back windows don’t move – burnt out motors?
5) front headlight – car is made so you HAVE to take it to the dealer to get it fixed; tried a few diff places and want it fixed before i get pulled over for it again!
6) alignment & possibly new tires :-/
7) dent on passenger door & scraped-off paint from a rock that hit it on the highway … but for now, a quote only
8) cracked front driver’s side – again, a quote only

yikes. and i just paid $625 for b’s car to get fixed. can’t wait to see this bill :(