I was in NJ visiting a friend, 2 hours away from where I live. I turned my car on to leave, drove about a block, looked down and realized that the speedometer wasn't moving and that my ABS and BRAKE lights were on. I turned the car off and on, drove it a few more minutes thinking it would go off - let the car sit for a while - tried everything I could think of - nothing helped. Of course it was 100 degrees out, my friend was on her way to work and to top it off in the end I had to wait almost 3 hours for a tow! (the roadside assistance lady told me not to drive it myself to the nearest dealer) Oh yeah, and of course the dealer didn't have a rental available for me, so I had to wait another 2 hours for someone to come and pick me up. Even better - my car was in the shop for 18 days until it got fixed. The only good thing was that it was under warranty, so I didn't have to pay anything.
So my speedometer was dead and they had to give me a brand new one and for the brakes they had to replace my abs actuator (which is apparently a really expensive part).
I find it really suspicious that these two things went bad on a year and a half old car that only has 14,000 some miles on it. Stranger is that they both suddenly go bad at the exact same time? Come on . . . even stranger is that the week before this happened, my car was in at the dealer for the 15,000 mile scheduled service (which was 150 bucks!) I called my dealer just to let them know. Of course my car doesn't qualify for the lemon law, but these are two things that shouldn't be going bad on new car.
I was in NJ visiting a friend, 2 hours away from where I live. I turned my car on to leave, drove about a block, looked down and realized that the speedometer wasn't moving and that my ABS and BRAKE lights were on. I turned the car off and on, drove it a few more minutes thinking it would go off - let the car sit for a while - tried everything I could think of - nothing helped. Of course it was 100 degrees out, my friend was on her way to work and to top it off in the end I had to wait almost 3 hours for a tow! (the roadside assistance lady told me not to drive it myself to the nearest dealer) Oh yeah, and of course the dealer didn't have a rental available for me, so I had to wait another 2 hours for someone to come and pick me up. Even better - my car was in the shop for 18 days until it got fixed. The only good thing was that it was under warranty, so I didn't have to pay anything.
So my speedometer was dead and they had to give me a brand new one and for the brakes they had to replace my abs actuator (which is apparently a really expensive part).
I find it really suspicious that these two things went bad on a year and a half old car that only has 14,000 some miles on it. Stranger is that they both suddenly go bad at the exact same time? Come on . . . even stranger is that the week before this happened, my car was in at the dealer for the 15,000 mile scheduled service (which was 150 bucks!) I called my dealer just to let them know. Of course my car doesn't qualify for the lemon law, but these are two things that shouldn't be going bad on new car.
- irishred002, Fleetwood, PA, US