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Another reason to avoid the stealership (Video evidence)

Well it seems this thread is soon to become epic. Already on jalopnik.com and other sites so I figured I'd post it up here:

The thread: Dealer tech takes my car on a 'test drive', at WOT... And I have video evidence... - Subaru Legacy Forums

It's a lightly modded 2005 Subaru Legacy GT.

 
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What year is the legacy? Our 05' GT hauls.

EDIT - Didn't click the forum link.
 
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BUSTED!!!
 
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Originally Posted by sniper_101
What year is the legacy? Our 05' GT hauls.
Edited post. It's an '05 too.
 
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I wish this was a joke. I'm sorry this happened to your vehicle.
 
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What ever came of this video? Wish there was an easy way to set something like this up in the ranger just to see what they do when I actually have to drop the truck off to get something worked on.
 
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Originally Posted by 0RangerEdge2
I wish this was a joke. I'm sorry this happened to your vehicle.
It's not mine. It's someone on one of my Subaru forums.
 
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Oh. Well that sucks so bad. I would expect a new car or something. That's ridiculous.
 
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well that sucks for him. those techs are idiots.

i only take my stuff where i trust them.
 
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what idiots. they see a camera and they still do that stuff!
Why do they even drive it so much anyways.
Its terrible, but this stuff happens all the time.
 
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LOL you think thats bad... never go to a dealer.. poor poor cobra's that come into the dealer the MECHANICS would rag the hell out of them
 
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damn. they have got some idiots in the world
 
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We "get on it" in some nicer "fast" cars at my work...

But most of the time the owners tell us to rag on them...

One guy with a lightning that I was babying on a test drive, i did brakes on it and he told me to do a burn out in the parking lot.. so I laid it down..

Deff. wouldnt do anything if it had cameras in it though!!
 
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Yeah thats really not that bad the tech school i want to was behand a dodge deaer and the new chagers came in they were down the street racing eachother and there were some pretty good rubber marks on that road for awhile... it is horrible though.
 
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that car wasn't beat on that bad you cant tell me when you test drive a vehicle that you don't get on it. and get on the breaks really hard and all that
 
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yeah, That would **** me off too. Take your car in for an oil change or whatever and have some dumbasses out joyriding. F that
 
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Originally Posted by Redneckstone
LOL you think thats bad... never go to a dealer.. poor poor cobra's that come into the dealer the MECHANICS would rag the hell out of them
That happened about a year or so ago. Someone took their cobra in to get worked on and a tech ragged the hell out of it. Then was a big enough dumbass to go posting about it on a forum that the car owner was on. He got caught and fired.
 
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Originally Posted by Djt1994
Yeah thats really not that bad the tech school i want to was behand a dodge deaer and the new chagers came in they were down the street racing eachother and there were some pretty good rubber marks on that road for awhile... it is horrible though.


Wow. Umm.... What? Is that English?
 
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Originally Posted by RazorsEDGE
Wow. Umm.... What? Is that English?
Yeah i should have read that to myself real quick before i posted it lol
 
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wow this is so horrible, cant believe it
 
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thats nothing.. a friends dad took his chevy avalanch to the tech guy lefted there for the weekend cause work didnt got finished by friday...

so he went to dinner with his wife and sees his chevy prked infront of a bar.. he gets down to see were the tech guy is .. when he saw im taking a few drinks he went home and brought the spare key to take his car away....

the tech gy went nuts with the police and everything an called the lo-jack ppl to track it down... when all the police dropped to his house the tech guy just fainted so they had to also call the ambulace cause he hitted his head on the floor........ lol

lucky if that was me the owner i wouldave most certainly killed the m..f..
 
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wow, please tell me those guys got fired...
 
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Pretty stupid to do that to a customer's car, especially because they usually don't wander to far from the dealer after. I can't say that when I worked at the dealer I never did something like this, but I tended to only do it to trade-ins :)
 
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Yeah this is just wrong.. I hope something is done for this.
 


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