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- From: ah190@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stuart Pearl)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Protective Coating for Auto Transport?
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:47:27 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- Recently during rapidly deteriorating negotiations on a new Sable,
- the sales manager (the CLOSER himself) said one of the reasons he
- had to charge me $250 for dealer prep was to clean off the special
- coating on the new car.
-
- "What is that?" I inquired, blood pressure rising further.
-
- "When they ship the car from the factory, they put a special coating
- (spray?) on the paint to protect it from the road dirt, weather and
- salt. My prep guy has to take that off with a solvent and I'm sure
- you wouldn't want to do that, and that's all part of dealer prep."
-
- This took me by surprise - I had never heard of such a thing. I thought
- they just ran the damn vehicle through their car wash when it arrived.
- Is this truth or more sales science fiction?
-
- He also said that it took time to assemble the standard roof rack on
- the station wagon - true, but then, isn't that one of the costs that
- contributes to the higher base price of the wagon? Why should that
- be figured into part of the dealer prep additional charge?
-
- -stu
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- Cleveland, Ohio
- ah190@cleveland.freenet.edu
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