The dealer’s assessment: The people at Carmax are idiots. They ran compression tests and numerous other things on my car and found nothing indicating sludge. Then they ran around their parking lot looking at oil caps and apparently sludgy caps are a normal thing on A4s. I couldn’t figure out if they actually took any [read more]
Dec 102006
Dec 082006
If only the C350 came in a wagon. That would give it more style (albeit a style most people don’t seem to like), and it would solve our mulch problem. The mulch problem goes like this: “I need 10 bags of mulch – load them up. Oh wait, they don’t fit in the trunk of [read more]
Dec 082006
Got my car back yesterday so I had to give the dealer their A6 back. Bummer, I was really starting to like it. It was much roomier than my A4 and I loved all the gadgets and extra fluff. Especially fun was driving around with the car key in my purse, or walking up to [read more]
Dec 072006
I took my car to Carmax to have it appraised the weekend after Thanksgiving. Their offer was insultingly low, $10,000 below what they charge for higher mileage versions of my car, so Chris and I laughed in the saleman’s face and quickly left. Most of the way to my car, someone called Chris’s name. It [read more]
Dec 072006
I’ve been to CarMax three times in my life, and it’s three times too many. Apparently the salesmen there are hard at work to validate the old stereotype of used car salesmen being total sleazes. This latest one was almost too much. We took the A4 in for an appraisal so we could see if [read more]
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