LEMON-PALOOZA 06 update Hopefully this will get me into the 430
As some of you might or might now know, my S500 went into the shop this morning for the 34th time.
The visit was to get the control arms, ball joints, and bushings replaced again...for the fifth time. As I was driving over to the dealership, my power steering gave out again...for the third time...in 6 days. I pulled the car over and sure enough there was fluid gushing out from underneath the car just as there was last Wednesday, last Saturday morning, and this morning. I get the car off the Jersey Turnpike and on to some back roads for the rest of the trip, and arrived safely (thank God).
I told my service advisor that this vehicle, in my eyes, is unsafe to drive at any speed, condition, or time. He looked at me kinda strangely, and asked me to hang loose near the desk.
A few minutes later the service manager came out and he requested to see the master service history for my car. After he pulled the sixth page out from the printer and read on in disbelief, he threw me the keys to a 2007 ML350 and said "we will see what we can do". Now, I hate ML's, but this one was really comfortable, and then I started it up... This is a brand new SUV that had only 41 miles on it, and I thought the tranny was going to fall out of this vehicle. Very underpowered, the transmission is downright scary with the rough gear shifts. But enough about the loaner...
I got a phone call about 6 PM tonight from my advisor stating that the problems this car is experiencing very well might be much deeper than any of them expected. What the heck does that mean? He also went on and stated that to get comfortable with the ML since there is a very good chance that I will be driving it for a long while.
This is getting interesting. I am guessing I should be getting a call from someone at corporate soon. Hopefully they will buy this car back so I can get something that is safe and road-worthy.
The saga continues on...