I often wonder if these bizarre and strange things that happen to me happen to anyone else. Here is the latest folly. In the spirit of stimulating the economy, we decided that I would buy a new car in January. My husband, his nurse and my BIL scouted it out one day. BIL test drove the car and gave it the thumbs up. I went to the dealer the next day, looked at the car, drove it myself, and said let’s do it. I was on Cinderella time that day and had to be home in an hour when the nurse left so I told the sales gal I couldn’t wait while they got everything ready. Just get it all ready, and I’ll come back the next day and sign the papers and pick up the car. That is what I did.
At this point everything was going along fine. A few odd things happened but I chalked them up to various screw ups. I was supposed to push the blue button and register the Onstar using the last 4 digits of my phone number because the dealer pre-registered it. When I gave them that number, the Onstar lady says “No that’s not it.” Humm..She says have you ever had another car with Onstar. Well yes. I gave her that code and she said…”that’s it” and proceeded to register the car.
About 2 weeks later the dealer calls my husband and says I need to register my Onstar. He calls me with the message and I tell him that must be a mistake because I already did that and even got a diagnostic e-mail on the car.
Another couple of weeks go by and I get 2 letters from Onstar on the same day. Each letter contains an Onstar card showing different car phone numbers. Humm…I call my husband’s cell phone from the car to figure out the correct number. OK one is right, the other is not. OK another screw up I assume. I throw the wrong card away.
Here's the kicker, in another few weeks, the dealer calls again to tell me that I have the wrong car. The car they sold me, that I titled and registered with the BMV, is sitting on their lot. The car I am driving they have reported stolen because it came up missing during an inventory audit the previous week. And guess what, they notified Onstar to track this stolen car and found out I had it. Yes, I have been driving this car for 6 weeks before they figure it out. I’ve got nearly 1000 miles on it, have taken my hairy golden retriever to the vet in it, and have run it through the car wash twice. Now they want me to bring it back and get my real car.
OK I’m game. That seems like the easiest solution for me since I have the other one titled and registered already. So I did and got to enjoy that new car smell all over again. I guess the moral of this story is that you should check the VIN number of the car with your paperwork before you drive it off the lot. Only in my world can this stuff happen.
Trish
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's learning to dance in the rain."
