Saturday, May 17, 2003
RED MENACE
I'm a car nut, as my car page, ROAD TRIP shows. I have a moderately-modified 2001 red Corvette coupe, affectionately named "Red Menace." I'm a regular poster on Corvette Forum, and wrote a "service review" there this morning about the experience I had taking my baby in to Mac Haik Chevrolet:
Since we often hear about how Chevy dealers don't appreciate the delicate sensibilities of Corvette owners, I thought I'd post an attaboy for Mac Haik on Houston's west side. I took my baby in for its 30,000 mile major service, an oil and filter change and a look at a few items that had been bothering me (especially, the intermittent failure of my turn signals).
David (didn't get his last name) in the service dept. took the job and made sure it was done right. I carefully sounded him out about the mods I've made -- to see if he'd balk about warranty issues. Not only was he cool about the issue, but was actually enthusiastic in discussing the horsepower gains, the merits of opening up the car's breathing, etc. They fixed the turn signal problem, replaced the serpentine belts (which had some dry rot) (both under warranty, no questions asked), flushed the fluids (the main part of the 30k service program), replaced the fuel filter and O2 sensor, checked the brakes (still plenty of pad at 29K+ miles) and got the car back to me when they'd said they would. All in all, a nice service experience!
This is the kind of thing that Corvette fanatics care about -- believe it or not. BTW, here's my "sig pic" from corvetteforum.com:
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:20 AM
