[Coco] OT: Recovery Disc set for Dell Inspiron 15 3520...

[Steven Hirsch]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:

> after owning a VW Jetta for about 18 
> months, VW's aren't welcome either.
>
> There is nothing on it or in it that doesn't take a thousand dollar bill 
> to fix, except perhaps a windshield wiper blade. Electric window motor? 
> $800/copy.  Headlights, 3x total replacements in a year because the 
> internal wiring was burned up, $345/side.
>
> Sunroof fell out, $3000.
>
> Paranoia because you can't get more than 3 feet or 3 seconds away from it 
> and it locks automatically.  The third time I had to take a shovel and 
> skin up the paint prying the drivers door open far enough to hit the 
> switch on the armrest with a steel bar to unlock it when the keys were 
> in the ignition was the final straw, I took a 15 thousand dollar beating 
> trading it for a 2007 Toy Rav-4 the next day.  Best vehicle ever, on a 
> par with my WV Cadillac, a 99 GMC 3 door pickup.

Awesomely poor experience.  Reminds me of my late - and un-lamented - 
Audi A6.  Within a year after warranty expired:

- Cruise-control + dash computer failure:       $1200
- Catastrophic automatic transmission failure:  $4300

Traded in immediately after replacing the transmission.  Always be suspect 
of a dealership where the service writers wear lab coats!

Oh, almost forgot:  They replaced the radio earlier under warranty and 
conveniently forgot to give me the updated unlock code.  A year later I 
had the battery replaced and discovered the missing code when attempting 
to use the radio after power-down.  The dealer charged me $95 to retrieve 
the code, claiming that "..of course we gave it to you..".  Bandits.

Bought a Subaru Legacy Sedan and it's been largely trouble-free (not to 
mention handy on Vermont roads in the winter).


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