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A national news magazine is looking to interview recent Toyota car buyers that switched from owning a GM vehicle (Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC, Cadillac, Saturn, Buick, Hummer, Saab). If you are interested, please send an email to ctalati edmunds.com no later than Monday, January 29, 2007 containing your daytime contact information. Thanks, Chintan Talati Corporate Communications Edmunds Inc. |
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A national news magazine is looking to interview recent GM car buyers (Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC, Cadillac, Saturn, Buick, Hummer, Saab) that switched from a Toyota or considered purchasing a Toyota. If you are interested, please send an email to ctalatiedmunds.com no later than Monday, January 29, 2007 containing your daytime contact information. Thanks, Chintan Talati Corporate Communications Edmunds Inc. |
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The Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership hopes to find willing interviewees who have used Flexcar, ZipCar or a similar service and has positive things to say. Please respond to jfallon edmunds.com no later than February 11, 2007 with your daytime contact information and a few words about your experience. Thanks, Jeannine Fallon Corporate Communications Edmunds Inc.
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Replying to: prlady1 (Jan 25, 2007 11:14 am)
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 25, 2007 6:43 pm) Shouldn't you be bugging the CR-V owners anyway?  .
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Replying to: steve_ (Jan 25, 2007 7:10 pm) 
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Edmunds' new Web site, AutoObserver.com, is interested in reading anecdotes that reflect on the automotive industry. Please send your thoughts to autoobserveredmunds.com.
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I bought a 2005 Chrysler Pacifica in Jan of 05. Over the last 8 months it has been in for service 6 times-many of these visits were for multiple things. Some of our problems have been: Breaks going out on several occassions (in 3 times just for this multiple problems with ABS) Broken front axel which stranded my entire family, including our toddler and infant. Broken Air conditioner Broken window regulator Passenger airbag indicator light would come on for no reason-saying the bag was *turned off*. These are just some of the problems we've had. We have been to the service dept in Aug 06, Sept 06, Nov 06 which the dealer claims to have performed the 27 point inspection each time. On top of it all we had many complaints about the service dept at our local dealer and called Chrysler corp to complain at least twice... Fast forward to today. The car starts making odd noises-running rough. We take it back to our local dealer, (this was a week ago) who looks at it and said we have engine sludge...at 25,000 miles mind you-and that if we cannot provide written, dated receipts of all of our oil changes it is going to cost us $6000 for a new engine. THis car is a lease. It only has 12 months left on it-and now we are stuck with a $6000 bill for something we did not break. We didn't save our oil change receipts-I've never even heard of sludge! We have always owned imports, this is our first American experience, and I will tell you that it's borderline ruining our life. The car has always been a safety risk-we have never felt safe in it. We have tried contacting Chrysler Corp with no avail. The lemon law would never have worked because the ABS problems were all with different sensors. We are very discouraged and feeling hopeless. We're not sure what we're going to do. My first thought was to publicize our story because I would hate to see this happen to another family. Every mechanic I have spoken with says there is no way we could have sludge build up at 25K miles. No way. I wonder if something happened to my car to cause the sludge...it's obviously a *lemon*. If anyone wants any more details, or has any advice, please contact me at jandm1209 yahoo.com. Thank you.
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Sorry to hear about the ordeal. If any journalists are interested in the story, they will contact you directly. Best of luck, Jeannine Fallon Corporate Communications Edmunds Inc. |
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Replying to: jr07 (Feb 07, 2007 8:53 am) Yeah good luck with corporate. I've had similar problems with Chrysler. They had my truck for 6 weeks and I finally pulled it out of my dealership to let a friend fix it. I will never buy a chrysler again. They have worse service than VW. I've had problems with GM dealers but nothing like your story or mine with Chrysler. It seems like Chrysler went down hill once Mercedes bought them and thus it's now a German company  Rocky |
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