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This was before the patent ran out (2 years ago??) and another 6 companies brought out there own oiled filters (Air Hog and Barry Grant are but 2)- I should have bought one of them Cary Grant filters . . .

Everybody knows that all these damn cars have computer chips that control every aspect of their operation. Now that gas is going to remain around $3.00 per gallon for regular, is there a replacement computer chip to maximize fuel economy? I have heard that there are performance chips out there.

Stick out your tongue and say, "AAAAAAHHHHHNNNN" then "KLAIVE"

Can you spell R-I-V-I-E-R-A?

Wasn't he Jimmy Stewart?

Real, functioning portholes like the Ultra or just decorative?

I saw a beautiful license plate at the dealer. It had the colored 1950's Buick shield on top of a reflective plate, $44.00. Is this available for less someplace else.

A dude on ebay (item No. 8049132674) has portholes that he claims are superior to the Chinese made ones. Are these the same as the museum.

Where could I land a good set of portholes for my Lacrosse?

They had no business in the mortgage business in the first place; it takes their attention away from cars. They need this money to fund that deal with the Unions to buy out all those workers.

I will wait until the other dealer hopefully solves my problem and I will decide what to do about the selling dealer's service department. They deserve some kind of black eye.

I got into a Lacrosse, not Lucerne. The Lucerne was too much money, too new, no incentives, etc. The Lacrosse is over at the Cadillac dealer receiving warranty service for the vibration that the service advisor recognized right away as abnormal. Their service manager worked at a Buick dealer for many years and was knowledgeable about how Buick owners want to be treated, the cars, etc. It is a shame that the selling dealer's service department is so horribly inept or corrupt that they refuse to do the work to diagnose and fix a problem with a car sold at their dealership.

Thanks for the information. I already leased a 2006 Lacrosse CXL at a very nice payment. It is red with taupe interior; equipped with remote start and heated seats. The only problem I'm having is that it sat for a long time on the lot, which caused the tires to develop flat spots on the tires. This has caused vibration and instability. The dealer refuses to acknowledge that there is a problem, but the problem is there IS a problem. I can't win.

It is a thoroughly undesireable POS in new condition. A bustle-back 6 window post sedan in WHITE! Give me a break! I'll bet all seals in the major components are rotten and it will need major mechanical work to run right. No way this is collectible.

How much is the incentive for being over 120 days on the lot? In addition, they put $500.00 on the hood of the CX (base) model.

I grant you that there are some crooks who try and con the dealer, too. I don't believe that the customers are more gamey than, lets say, the front office. I think the sales people are in the middle in thie struggle. The markup on the Solstices is just a reflection of their relative newness and scarcity; it is going to happen initially; I don't have a problem with that. I just hate all the dealers in my area because of all the nonsense. Luckily there is a good salesman at a lousy dealer and I can deal with him. I am between vehicles and am waiting until March Madness to make a move on a new GM, probably a lease.

The short answer to the question is that they lack the will to identify the 100 worst franchisees and yank their franchises. This would send a message that the others should fall into line. They could do this. There is a dealer or 2 in almost every major metro area that nobody who lives there wants to deal with. Unfortunately the internet has given these crooked buzzards a new lease on life. GM is suffering because some of their dealers mistreat people who are out looking to buy, commit crooked and horrendous hatchet jobs in the service area, rape and pillage buyers in closing rooms and in the finance office, "steal" trades, put jalopies held together with band aids on the used car lot. Other dealers are staffed with consumate professionals who treat people well and they seem to make a handsome profit - the difference is the good dealers deserve the money they make because they earn it - the bad ones are staffed with fly-by-night thieves and scoundrels. Maybe if GM goes bankrupt they can begin a corporate owned sales network that treats people like they should be treated.

"can't" or "won't?" Dealers that keep holdovers way beyond the new year are so greedy that you can't make a deal with them, on anything. When a salesman pitches a held over model I react with surprise that they still have it and say that if the dealer was reasonable to begin with it wouldn't be there. At the end of the year there are all kinds of incentives and end of year money on these vehicles but some dealers want to keep all of it instead of being reasonable and negotiating on these holdovers. A demo is essentially a used car anyway but they act like the demos are plated with gold. The dealer who has a held over '04 is run by flaming a-holes. stay away.

I have seen it, and although it is not what I refer to as "hard white" it is still "white." If white were a desirable color to begin with they wouldn't have to invent these phony colors like gold flash tricoat, white lightning and pearl white. White is white and I am against it on cars.

In South Florida, Southeast Region

Well, damn me to hell for also forgetting Pembroke Pines Buick, Pontiac, GMC (and they have a Lexus store right next to it!

Does anybody know what all the alternatives are for my area, SE Fla.

In Southeast Florida, specifically Pompano Beach, the Tom Endicott franchise gave up their Buick franchise to Sheehan. This is a good development. The sales manager there seems relatively straightforward. You could never make a deal with the greedy pigs who ran the front office at Endicott, though. It is a shame because they had some very decent, knowledgeable older salesman there. Endicott became old and rotten; good riddance! In West Palm Beach there is Schumacher, a great dealer, especially in their service department. In east Ft. Lauderdale there is King Motors, a dealer that took on Buick with a "New York" attitude. In west Ft. Lauderdale there is Ed Morse Sawgrass, a nasty dealer with a subpar service department. I would look for a car in Miami. It is not even worth it.

I will look into it because these people have burned their bridges with me. Every time there is a thunderstorm the thing goes off for a short time.

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