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All of that is about what I expected. Though, according to KBB I paid roughing what the normal cost of a private sale would be for a car with a warranty and I've already had warranty work done on it at this point. I take it you're suggesting I press them for the expenses already paid, rather than equivalent services?

The timing and cam belt replacement are in the 105k service. The 60k is coolant, ATF, brake fluid, oil, cabin filter, engine filter, spark plugs, as well as some inspection points. Most of that is also in the 90k as well. IP, do you know much about how the structure of the dealerships works with this stuff? I'm wondering if I have the leverage to really insist on having things done my way. AKA: is this something Subie corporate might come down on them for? Or are they just gonna side with the dealership?

So what do you all think of this offer they made to me today: they'd send someone down with a rental to swap cars, drive mine back to their dealership, do the next major service (90k or 105k), and bring it back to me. IMO, this seems like a pretty fair offer, but seems like a much larger inconvenience to them to pay a tech to essentially spend their entire shift driving my car around, which seems odd considering it would seem easier to just have another dealership do the work. Seems like a lot of trouble to go through on their part, which the excessively skeptical person I am wonders why? I get you'd save some labor cost, but they'd be paying someone who works for them for the 8 hours they are driving to me. Maybe I'm just being crazy, but it kinda fits with my thought that the car was improperly inspected and they're trying to avoid someone finding out? Yeah, it sounds crazy just typing it out but still... Anyway, I'm inclined to take them up on it with a few reservations: -The 90k service is only 10k miles after I had it all this work done, so most of the fluids/plugs/etc that are inspected wont need replaced, ie: probably not even worth having this service done at all -The 105k service is a more reasonable interval, but doesn't include any fluids (brake, ATF, coolant, etc), and things like the coolant and ATF were costly out of pocket for me and still likely won't need to be re-done then. - 500 unnecessary miles on the car/tires for the trip I just want to make sure I'm not getting the short end of the stick here but still being reasonable. Maybe see if they'll combine the major parts of both services at the 105k since having a 2nd major service after 10k is kinda redundant?

Obama will just secretly get people to start committing more violent crimes in Chicago to make the stats say what they need them to

phew, i was a little worried there. Linking the tail and swingarm would make for a very harsh ride.

Is there a bar connecting to the swingarm?

i don't get people's obsession with carbon fiber stuff.

I didn't move, I drove 4 hours to buy the car and drove it home. Don't worry, I'm extremely courteous and appreciate them trying to make it right so far, but when I drop thousands on something under false pretenses... I get a little steamed. Like I told them on the phone, I don't feel like I should have to take a Certified Pre-Owned car down the street to have an independent mechanic check to make sure they did what they said they did. I want to believe they just oopsied on noting the mileage, but there's a number of other minor things that were on the CPO inspection sheet that weren't done: brake pads were way less than 50% life, wiper blades were not replaced. Minor, yes, but when one of the check boxes on the list is "replace wiper blades" that's pretty hard to overlook. Makes me wonder if they actually put it through the process or not. It would be easy to try and save a few hundred bucks not performing required work on it, hope I never catch it, then look good trying to reconcile. I know, I'm a skeptic. I have the booklet and warranty that states it's Certified Pre-Owned from Subie. I will keep that in mind if things don't pan out with their current bid to make things right. I'm a pretty reasonable person and will work with them as best I can as long as I think I'm being treated fairly.

I have already paid the bill... Interestingly, after we got off the phone with me concluding about finding who I'd need to talk to next, they called back and said they were going to contact a local dealer about the work and paying them directly... So we'll see how it pans out.

So here's the story, I bought a '09 Subaru Legacy back in 2011 as a Certified Pre-Owned car. They have all these requirements that the dealership is supposed to go through to certify the car and offer the extended warranty. Took my car into a dealership here in town 3 weeks ago to get the starter replaced under warranty, no problem. But they mentioned my car had no record of the 60k service being done on it. This is a pretty extensive (and most expensive) of all the scheduled maintenance and one that should have been done before I bought the car given that it had 61,xxx miles and the inspection sheet specifically says "if the car is within 2000 miles of a scheduled maintenance, this must be performed." So we're getting ready for a 1500mi road trip out to Iowa and the car is 20k past this scheduled maintenance and I told them to just get it done cause I didn't want to risk things screwing up on this trip and continuing the excessive wear of not replacing plugs, fluids, etc. Called the original dealer I bought it from and told them what was going on, they admitted there was NO record of anything but a rotation and oil change done on the car after they got it. They admitted it was a mistake and should have been done. Their solution was for me to drive 8 hours round trip, 250 miles each way, to get have them perform the service they should have done 2 years and 20k miles ago. Problem is, service is already done and they refuse to cover the costs of the other dealership doing my the work that they were required to do before I had bought the car. We're talking about $700+ of scheduled maintenance. Thoughts? Am I just SOL? This seems ridiculous to me and thinking back, looking at the car the brake pads were shot after about 1k miles and the tires after 5k, both of which seemed pretty short given Subie's inspection requirements (50% pad life >6/32" tread life). I'm thinking they never even bothered doing the official Certified Pre-Owned inspection and just rubber stamped the car when they first got it in... What other avenues do I have to make this right because I feel seriously fucked over right now...

But seriously, what happened to the tradition of when threads got out of hand just throwing titties at it until everyone was happy?

Any of you guys hunt public land? I was thinking about picking up my Ohio license and a tag and going out this weekend for muzzleloader season, but my brother-in-law says he wouldn't ever set foot on public hunting land during a gun season. Thoughts?

If I lived anywhere near Cleveland ;-)

Haha, good point.

Former dead body freezer?

Yep, Iowa and muzzleloader. But she used to compete in archery during high school so probably could probably hunt bow. Need to get us a chest freezer now.

My wife doing work on her yearling doe. Never looked sexier.

Today was my last chance out and after spotting another few bucks (totaling 12 for this trip), ended up taking a button buck to avoid going home empty-handed.

This morning had another 2 4-pointers and a 6-pointer go by then 2 6-pointers at another spot in the evening as well as two yearlings that came up and practically licked me. My luck is s*** right now for respectable does showing up. Wife shot a yearling this morning. Picks to come later.

Unluckiest day. Spent a good 3 hours out this morning on family acreage in west Iowa with an antlerless holiday muzzleloader tag. Had a 12-point walk 20 yards behind me and about an hour later a 6-point 25 yards off to my 11 o'clock and 2 4-points on my 3 o'clock at 20 yards all at the same time. Bastards knew what my tag was and were taunting me while the does walked by about 120 yards in front of me through the woods.

grammar*

You don't have to use it at all. And the Kinect 2.0 is pretty useful and a helluva lot more accurate, as in wave racing on Kinect Sports hand open vs closed to control throttle. Pretty cool.

Why all the hate? It's actually pretty cool with a lot of potential, IMO.

I don't think they have any intention of putting out a kinect-less version of the XBone. And Ryse was fun!

The more I thought about this, the more I started to think they actually shouldn't be allowed to can him over this. I mean, I think we can all agree he said essentially what 90% of Christian churches in the US teach more or less. IMO, you can't be fired for walking up to your boss and saying, "I'm XXX religion" or "I'm XXX political viewpoint" or "I'm XXX lifestyle." It's all part of that hiring bit where such and such a company does not discriminate based on race, religion, age, sex, or orientation, etc. bit you always read in applications.