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Re: Shifts Quickly [dane777]

by ksearcy on Wed Nov 12 19:13:09 PST 2008

I too have a 2007 pac touring, 4L, 6sp. The vehicle has had the tourque converter replaced once. It has been flashed 3 times, had a strut replaced and a motor mount replaced. It drives considerably better than it did except for rough shifts and a very low frequency rumble occasionally. All of the work was done at 10,000 miles. My car shifts gears very quickly and I am in 5th gear before I get to 30mph. I mentioned this at two dealerships, and neither showed any interest. I have driven the car another 5000 miles including a trip in the Rocky Mountains. I intend to keep driving until something major happens. I bought the extended max warranty on this vehicle, so when and if it truly is junk as I suspect, they'll be fixing it for many years to come. Thanks for the opportunity to vent, have a nice day

grbeck

by marsha7 on Tue Aug 26 09:48:22 PDT 2008

"On the other hand, let's be realistic and admit that the union really doesn't bring anything of benefit to the paying customers"...that is well said... rocky: when a door does not fitm blame the UAW...unless EVERY door was poorly designed (then blame mgmt), most doors need to be fitted to the frame, just like the hood...they can be mounted crooked and not close properly and that is a labor problem... "They were interviewing a GM worker regarding GM's improved quality. He said they used to let quality issues go out the door for the dealer to deal with and now they try to catch and fix those problems."...rocky...what does it take to get you to see the reality and pull your head out of the sand???...they sent out the finished product not caring whether parts fit or not...and you can't see a labor problem???...and you think the union stands for quality???...you really come across like the child who won't stop believing in Peter Pan, the difference being the child grows up and sees the truth, you refuse to do so... A GM worker finally summed up (assuming that the CNBC show was broadcast, as I did not see it myself) what is wring with the Big 3...make anything that will roll on 4 wheels and hope the dealer can fix it under warranty...that is why you will soon be reading the tombstone of the UAW, because they made junk, they know it, and now they admit it...combine THAT with 25 years of production and you can easily see why Americans have left the Big 3 in droves...the buying public won't know it is UAW, but, like gagrice, they can see a door that does not fit,and door seals that fall off a new car when the door is opened...that does not give a buyer confidence when sitting in a car in a dealer showroom, when they close the door and it does not close properly...like it or not, if the door won't close then the remainder of the car, by common sense and divine law, will be junk...if they are that careless about workmanship on the obvious door, rest assured that the build quality underneath is even worse...rocky, your union loyalty is admirable, but will bite you in the end...and there simply are NOT enough "lemkos" to allow the Big 3 to regain the market share lost over the last 30 years... rocky: Kia is STILL hiring and divorce laws are better in GA...:):):):):)

China Trade Gap Causes Massive Job and Wage Losses

by rockylee on Sun Aug 24 18:16:50 PDT 2008

As the nation’s economic woes mount, a new study details the devastating impact that the growing U.S. trade deficit with China is having on American jobs, wages and key industries. Between 2001 and 2007, 2.3 million American jobs were lost due to the China trade gap, including 366,000 last year, according to the report released today by the Economic Policy Institute. Those displaced workers lost an average of $8,146 in wages last year, a total of $19.4 billion, as they took lower-paying jobs. China is also the predominant source of downward pressure on wages of other production workers, about 100 million Americans. Competition from low-wage workers in less developed countries and less bargaining power here at home pushed the median wage for full-time workers without a college degree – about 70 percent of the U.S. workforce – down about $1,400 in 2006. http://www.iue-cwa.org/news/china-trade-gap.html -Rocky

rocky and dallas

by marsha7 on Sun Aug 17 12:15:03 PDT 2008

The "good jobs" are everywhere, one has to be willing to go to the job...if she, like you, insists on staying in a dying state like Michigan, of course she will complain that "nobody is hiring"...she needs to go where the job is, which may not be down the street from where she wants to live... dallas: "Why are all this countries woes blamed on the UAW?"...I do NOT blame all this country's woes on the UAW...but the UAW does make a good poster boy (girl?) for the fact that floorsweepers are not worth the hourly rate they are paid, as there is no more unskilled labor than a floorsweeper...but they make far above the minimum wage, when the job is hardly worth was the minimum wage was back in 1980...so the UAW stands as an example of the reason why manufacturing has been shipped overseas, where the floorsweeper is paid $2-3 per hour, approximately what it is worth... The UAW is part of an industry that did, at one time, involve 1 in every 6 jobs in America, plus the UAW has been the most militant and VOCAL, striking to keep floorsweepers earning what they do, and striking to keep lousy drunk workers (not all of them, but the ones who ARE lousy and drunk) on the line...like it or not, it was management with poor designs and UAW labor forgetting door screws and leaving out other parts that simply drove (no pun intended) Americans away from their product... When you avoid a product because it looks lousy, blame management for poor design... But when you buy the product, find out parts are missing or things simply do not work (windows out of channels, parts mounted crooked, etc.) and you have now lost your financial a** on a piece of junk, you will blame the people who MADE the car...and you may avoid Big 3 cars altogether, because the same lackeys who made the Ford also make GM and Chrysler... I would bet that more people left Big 3 due to quality problems which are LABOR problems, whereas if it was poor design problems, i.e. management, you never saw them buy the product anyway, they just left the dealer and drove to Honda outright...

Re: This just in... [bluewonder]

by personatech on Fri Jun 27 15:17:04 PDT 2008

"Hi I see you said Wilson...is this wilson, nc?....i" Yep, Wilson NC - I live in Roanoke Rapids. Our local dealer only has 3 cars I'd be interested in, an EX-L and two EX-L V6es. Rocky Mount, Wilson, Raleigh, and Durham dealers all have some pretty decent inventory so I'm shopping around quite a bit. It's decision time - looks like I sold my Beetle today so I'll need to get serious about the process now.

Re: Bought EX-L RES in South Carolina [cheapdad000]

by dmitchell2 on Tue Feb 26 09:16:29 PST 2008

Yes, Breakaway's price was OTD. They did not break it down, but as a SC Resident it would have gone something like this: Vehicle (including destination): $28,936 SC Taxes (they're capped at $300) $300 Tags: $39 I'd suspect that the vehicle price is actually slightly lower, and they charge a doc fee, but the OTD is the same. If you're in NC, your taxes and tags will be higher, of course (sorry!). Here are the NC Dealer quotes I received. All are OTD, based on South Carolina taxes/tags (Taxes in SC = $300, tags = $39). Adjust as needed for NC. Auto Park Honda - Cary $29,558 High Country Honda - Boone $29,664 Vann York Honda - High Point $30,000 Asheboro Honda - Asheboro $30,273 Crown Honda Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill $30,599 Bob Barbour Honda - Greenville $30,754 Alan Vester Honda - Roanoke Rapids $32,508 The following NC dealers did not response with a quote (make of it what you will): Burlington Honda - Burlington Coastal Carolina Honda - New Bern Courtesy Honda - Goldsboro Davenport Honda - Rocky Mount Hope that helps!