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Ripped off by dealer for the last time, what next?
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Posted by bkoeth (more from bkoeth) on Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:46:04 Share Post by Email
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I took my 95 900S in to Three-Way Saab in Bakersfield to have the positive battery cable replaced. The car was having trouble starting, even from a jump, and the cable was very badly corroded. They took their sweet time on it and called me back stating that I would need a new alternator for $362 plus $312 labor. I thought about it for an hour or so and called back, telling them to just do the cable, thinking I could do the alternator myself, as it is only $184 on eeuro. They were very reluctant to let me do this, but I did anyway. Picked the car up yesterday after first needing to fight to have a vague $39 charge removed that they couldn't even tell me what it was. So I was out of there after paying for the cable an $78 to diagnose the bad alternator, with the service writer basically telling me I would never get the car started and should swallow my pride and have them replace the alternator. I brought my girlfriend's car around to jump my car and drive it the 3 miles back home. Decided to give it a try without the jump, started right up like new. Shut it down, tried again, turned on the headlights, AC, started and ran just fine. Pulled out the voltmeter and found 14.3V across the terminals. So now I know why they didn't want me to try it!

The question is, what now? I want to recover my $78 and show them who not to mess with, but after leaving on such bad terms, is it really worth it? At the very least, I can advise Saabers in the San Joaquin valley never to go the Three-way for anything!

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