Here's my explanations:
1) I took delivery on a Saturday afternoon, and by the time I got to the shopping mall and realized that the passive lock / unlock didn't work it was already after 5pm and the dealer was closed.
2) I live in Easton, but purchased this vehicle in Souderton, as the local dealers didn't have anything in stock that I wanted and weren't willing to work with me on price on an order. I get it serviced close to home.
Thoughts:
1. Usually in life it pays to be proactive rather than waiting, unless of course your strategy is to leave the truck someplace long enough to have 30 days of repairs. I pulled up Ram's website and looked up dealers. There's a place in Bangor, which is 20 minutes from Easton (I used to live in the Poconos). There's a place in Allentown, another 20-25 minutes (I'm leaving out the
Brown-Daub dealerships). There's a place in Washington NJ which is another 20-25 minutes away. Before I would leave my truck that I believed was leaking from rain and waiting on other repairs at this dealership for 2 weeks, I would have picked it up and went to another dealership. Who cares if it's 25 minutes away? If it's just going to sit not being repaired it might as well be in China.
2. Demo vehicles are not ideal to buy. Even though they've never been titled, they have often been driven hard by sales guys and customers.
3. I doubt it was sitting on the lot for 6 months because it had problems. No one could know that just looking at it - you didn't, unless you just think you're dumber than the average person
4. My prediction: you end up spending a bunch of money and have no satisfaction whatsoever. Instead of trying to go this route, I probably would have cut my losses and aggravation, found a dealer that was sympathetic and traded it in and got my warranty coverage moved to the new vehicle, then let the dealer deal with the problems. Essentially the best you are going to be with a lemon law case is made whole for the vehicle cost or get a new vehicle. If you just traded in you might be out a few thousand dollars. Is a few thousand worth all the aggravation? It wouldn't be for me. Hell, I've sold aggravating cars and taken a loss just to be done with them.
5. No company cares any more if someone says "I'll never buy X from them again". The days of loyalty are dead. Companies know most customers shop on emotion and price. If the product speaks to them emotionally and they have the means to buy it, everything else doesn't matter. If you need a full-size truck and think that Tundras look ugly and F150s are too expensive, you're going to end up in a Ram. Or maybe a GM. You just don't have a lot of options. No company spends any money trying to maintain loyalty, that just comes as a byproduct of maintaining something else. Apple, for example, has great brand loyalty, but that comes mostly as a concerted effort to make their products always seem to be the "cool" product to have. The overwhelming number of people that own Iphones, for example, are under 30, while Android has a much higher share of the market for people over 30 where price and function is more important than image.
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