ok this is my last 2 weeks in a list first my transmission is making a whizzing noise while driving and starts slipping on the shifts and wont give power so i tow the car in on a friday and they say the wont work on it till tuesday so i call them on tuesday they say it will be done thursday...so i go down there on thursday car is not done they say come back tommoro so i come again on friday they say were r almost done but we dont work on saturdays so you will have to wait till monday evening to pick up your car but in the mean time they will give me a mazda5 so i take it and drive off now here is the icing on the cake...besides all the attitude i was given at NORTH PARK MAZDA in san antonio texas they now tell me that i have a ball joint problem on front passenger side and it will cost me 500 dollars and i say i dont have that much money right now...now they say my car is unsafe to drive and if i do drive it my wheels could basically fall off plus they took bak the rental

edit:+when i got my car back there was a whole bunch of BIRD s*** on it

 

that sucks man... I believe there's a TSB on the joint. Found it... It's not actually the ball joint itself that's broken though so doesn't seem like that's it maybe... $500 for a plastic connect seems expensive.

 

Have the "Ball Joint" checked out by a reputable front-end shop.

 

car dealers are liars. they will rip you off blind if they think they can.

I could go ON and ON with all the BS I've been fed by both the sales people and the repair people.

two rip off attempts were at Mazda. i used to have a first gen rx7. the steering was loose - lots of free play in teh wheel. i took it to mazda. they told me i needed a new steering rack. cost was going to be well over $1000. I said no way. i found a private independnet mechanic. i called him up, explained the roblem, and over the phone he said there is no way your rack is bad, bring it to me. he put it on a lift, examined it, and ended up replacing some tie rods, and other front end suspension components - fixed the problem, for about $200.

second situation - my miata had a drivers side window that would not go up/down. i took it to mazda. so they had my car - once again, and looked at it. they tell me it's my window regulator - $300. i went online and found out that for my year miata, the drives window notoroiusly had a cable pop out of it's little bracket, blocking the window from rolling up all the way. i found an online writeup on how to fix it. i fixed it myself in about 30 min. no parts were broken. i found it hard to believe a mazda dealer was unaware of something that I found online that apparently was extremely common on that car...

two situations where a mzda dealer - IMHO - flat out lied to me to make up bogus service the car didn't need.

i trust the car dealers about as far as i can throw them.

sad thing is - when you start looking at other professions -0 like doctors, dentists, lawyers - tons of them are lying corrupt pieces of crap too. way too many people are more than willing to lie and cheat to make a buck.