[VIDEO] GM Settles with Man over Inoperable CarPlay Feature in 2016 Corvette

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[VIDEO] GM Settles with Man Over Inoperable CarPlay Feature in 2016 Corvette


We’re wondering if there are more people out there who are having problems getting their high-tech devices to sync with their new Corvette’s infotainment system.

Seems that a Pennsylvania man named Paul Pino decided to reward himself for 42 years of hard work by buying a 2016 Corvette.

Unfortunately, Pino soon found that he could sync an Apple iPhone with the car, but not his iPod or iPad, making it more difficult to listen to his music.

“If you put the iPod or iPad on Bluetooth you lose your connection with your phone and then you don’t have a hands free connection, so it’s not safe,” he explained.

General Motors’ reaction to Pino’s problem was for him to wait for a software upgrade that will come “sooner or later”” and fix the trouble.

Because his owner’s manual shows that the infotainment system will sync with all Apple devices now, Pino didn’t feel like he should have to wait for that update.

Since the car will sync with an iPhone, Pino just asked GM to give him an iPhone, but they refused.

That’s when his wife suggested getting Philadelphia TV consumer reporter Jim Donovan of 3 On Your Side fame to solve the problem a lot quicker.

Donovan put Pino in touch with attorney Bob Silverman, who told him that the situation was definitely a breach of warranty. “When you buy a product and it’s not what you expect or were promised,” Silverman said, “you deserve compensation. GM didn’t have the software right, so he was denied the right to use that product in his car that he was promised.”

Silverman eventually got GM to settle for $3,000, providing Pino with plenty of money for an iPhone and even an iPad or iPod or two … in the event that promised software update should arrive.


Source:
philadelphia.cbslocal.com

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1 COMMENT

  1. Who needs music, when you can listen to the sound of the Corvette?

    Well maybe with the exception of: little red Corvette (Prince).

    As I cannot afford a Corvette yet, I would love to hear some audiotaped Corvette sound in my car.

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