dealer servicing

I'd believe it. When we had a Jack every service created an issue. They had three shots then I went back to the old mechanic. The local Toyota dealer seems to be doing better. All parts claiming to be new have been replaced (I mark them so I know). They also seem to know more about their 4wd's. The Holdern dealer I went to didn't seem to understand them. The "If it breaks we will fix it" attitude sucked as they don't pay the recovery costs to get the vehicle back to civilisation.

Steve

Ah yes Jackaroos! I had two, one for the missus and one for me. So many things went wrong with these vehicles, especially after the warranty ran out. Funny thing was, nearly every thing that went wrong, went wrong on both vehicles. After talking to owners later we find that they were having the same things go wrong. You get the impression that these problems should have been subject to recall notices - but no, we just paid our dough to the dealer to have them fixed.

We did get a recall once - after we had already paid to have them item repaired on both vehicles. Both were sold with the "check engine" light up, both of which were the Throttle Positioning Indicator.

Geez the Holder dealer made some dough out of us with those cars. Never again!

The Paj we got to replace one of the Jackaroos never, ever got serviced by the dealer and they only got it when something broke under warranty.

Personnally I think you should name the dealer. places like this should be named and shamed as they give all mechanics a bad name. Just my opinion

nowimnumberone, you have brought up a problem with this Rodeo, oil leaking between the gear box and transfer case, did you and if so could you tell me how you fixed it please. The gear box/transfer case in my MU is doing the same thing and has done so for some time, but seems to be getting worse. So any help would be great thank you.
Cheers Bruce.

Funny thing,

I was going to let this topic go, but as I'm laid up at present and have nothing better to do, I thought, why not give some feedback.

I have had no trouble from the Jackaroo, or the long time Holden Dealer I've had the last oh, twelve vehicles services at, most of them lease cars. My wife too!

Just goes to show, one can be "lucky", or "unlucky" as the case may be.

If you are not happy with your dealer, any dealer, Holden, Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nissan, whoever, there are avenues to escalate your problems to.

Doesn't really matter what brand - there's bad Holden, Ford and Yota etc as well as good uns. Our local Holden happens to be a bit of a shocker. Depends on the staff & management. Just like the bloke on here the other day with his RTA horror story. I reckon our local (Sydney area) mob would've fixed him up. Top people. Whenever something's not quite what the rule book says, they actually apply a bit of commonsense and fix it up.

Hi.

I've been a Holden person all my life. Had pretty good service until the last few years. I feel Holden has gone to S**t. What broke the camel back was. My mother has never had a new car. So being a good son I asked what was her favourite car was.
She told me she loves the Holden Barina, so off I go to the local Holden dealer.
I put down the deposit and told the car will be here in a week as it is on the dock in Brisbane waiting for its I.D plates. This was good as my mother's had no idea what I was up to and her birthday was only 2 weeks away. What a great surprise this would be.

1 month later the cars shows up at the dealer. All I could give my mum on her birthday was the brochure, She was over the moon though. But all the promises from Holden broken.
The stories they told changed every time I rang up. They just tell you what you want to here. I could have gotten the car on the showroom floor from a out of town dealer, but like to give local people my business. I was also told that when the car was serviced she would get a car for the day. After 3 services this has still not happened. There total attitude is just wrong.

I have never had this problem from a Toyota dealer, Toyota always comes back washed and vacuumed. Holden they are lucky if they put on a seat protector.

So I've really gone of Holden, even though I still own a Commodore. This will be going soon for the new Aurion Presara.

I don't think I will ever buy a Holden again.

Robert