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Check out Corvette Posse’s latest YouTube video – a horror story if you happen to be one of the few thousand owners of a 2023 or 2024 Z06!
He says he bought his brand new Z06 – which is now covered in a matte black wrap – from his dealership on May 24, 2023 – well aware of the first-six-month sales ban imposed by General Motors because he didn’t want to lose his warranty or the 500,000 GM bonus points.
Unfortunately, when he arrived at the same dealer a few days ago to get his first free oil change with about 4,000 miles on the odometer, the service advisor came out and told him that the warranty had been blocked by GM, which claims the car had changed ownership just 24 days after the initial purchase.
Standing in front of his Z06 on the video, he points out the obvious – that he didn’t ever sell the car. He didn’t transfer ownership into an LLC or even refinance the loan with another lender.
We’re hoping for his sake that this was just a computer glitch that will be resolved once GM looks into a case that has now been opened about the issue. In the meantime, though, the dealer won’t touch the car so he can’t get it serviced at all. He didn’t say, but we’re assuming that he won’t even be driving the car for fear of doing some kind of expensive mechanical damage that might not be covered if the case doesn’t go in his favor.
From the beginning, we’ve always felt that GM has no business telling a customer what they can or cannot do with their car as far as ownership, especially when there are plenty of dealers who are gouging their customers with so-called “price adjustments” and that’s allowed by GM. Based on the logic behind the original retention policy, which aimed to keep customers from reselling their high-demand cars at a big profit, then those dealer cars also being sold above MSRP shouldn’t have a warranty, either.
Corvette Posse says he is waiting to hear back from GM about this issue, and we’re hoping it’s not a long wait. After all, it appears he did nothing wrong but is being penalized for a GM mistake. He’s also worried that GM will report the warranty block to Carfax and the other auto-tracking sites, potentially cutting the value of his car by tens of thousands of dollars.
We think he deserves some type of compensation for all his pain and suffering, don’t you?
Source:
CorvettePosse / YouTube
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Shame on GM!
They could have rectified this travesty for a customer who purchased the most expensive car model that they are presently selling . . . in one frickin’ day!!!!
GM caused the problem! FIX IT . . . NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Montana Bob
Why hasn’t the selling dealer stepped up on the buyers behalf?
Yes, the dealer should be helping their customers. They can call their sales rep; every dealer has the phone number. I know my dealer would get it fixed in one day.
Proof that dealers are nothing but paper pushers, bring no real value to the table, and don’t even advocate for their most prized customers. Pathetic and sad.
Please fix that G. M. Fix the car, if it needs an oil change. DO IT. We (the customer) really value your master piece (CORVETTE) . Thank you
I’ll say this straight out, this whole C8 story of gouging, constraints, warranty canceling, and flipping from the beginning has really soured me on these latest generation Corvettes. Not worth the hassle in my eyes. I currently have 3 Corvettes (C2’s & a C7 Z06) in my garage and I’ve enjoyed the purchase experience and ownership experiences they’ve given me, I don’t see that happening with a new one.
My immediate concern would be that wherever he had financed the car at or through had transferred or sold the loan to another company. This is certainly common in housing loans even as banks and finance companies are taken over or merge.
Absolutel right comment. And the you have these absolutely uncompetent dealers to deal with what makes the experiences again worser than they actually are!
If he paid cash just show them the title.
Just go ahead and have the oil changed and they can reimburse you for it once gm gets it straightened out. Should have taken it back to the rip off dealer he bought it from.GM should not be able to block your warranty …hope someone sues GM…….
Wonder how much he paid for it.
I am curious if the “change of ownership” is currently listed at CarFax or the state DMV. They may be able to help ID the paper work that the state received showing the change. If the state has no record of a change then GM doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
I agree that the dealer should be on the hook because they filed the paper work with the state.
Most local News stations have an Consumer advocate. In Seattle it would be Jesse Jones. They can get things moving with the power of the Media.
Good Luck, I hope it is resolves soon.
Blame Ferrari… Back some 35 years ago, Ferrari was selling the F40. The last Ferrari commissioned by Enzo himself.
Customers got them, then sold them for a massive profit during the early 90s collectors car bubble. Well, Ferrari got greedy. They started to make things tough. Made it impossible to get, you had to own some other model or models to prove you are “worthy” of owning the special edition. This included reselling restrictions. Also didn’t stop dealers from putting huge markups on the car. In short, as long as the money stayed in Ferrari, that’s all that mattered.
Can you say “corporate greed?” And they say businesses are capitalists…
It should be pretty easy to prove who initially bought the car that has the VIN on the car he currently owns, regardless of who currently has possession of the title. Right?
More GM BS.
“Corporations and the customers who hate them”.
Why do companies bind customers with contracts, bleed them with fees, and baffle them with fine print?
Because bewildered customers, who often make bad purchase decisions, can be “profitable”.
Many thanks,
Ray
Hire a pricey attorney and sue the dealer and GM. When it is found to be in the owners favor he’ll also recoup his attorneys fees. It seems nowadays that this is the only way to teach unscrupulous dealers and manufacturers a lesson.
If his dealer was worth a damn, it would be fixed in a day.