Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: New (Used) Car Blues

Episode Date: March 11, 2017

Jeffy's new "Rolls Royce" makes an annoying sound, and the dealership won't fix it for him. Should he just return the car, or live with the decision he made to buy the car?Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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gold. Call 1-800-913 gold. Buying real gold is easy and fast at Goldline. And you're going to be happy that you finally made the call. 1-800-913-4653. Goldline also offers price protection against short-term market fluctuations on qualifying purchases, so buy with confidence. Read Goldline's important risk information and find out of buying gold is right for you. Call Gold Line 1-800-913-4653. So I bought a car a couple days ago. All right. It's leather seats, oak dashboard and armrests,

velour center arm and drink rests, all digital reading and dash for speed, you know, for the dashboard, how much gash, it's all digital. Remote start, I don't even need a key. onboard satellite, private separate phone I can use as a cell or a sat phone, DVD, internet playback, flash drive playback capabilities. It's made by a company that goes by the name of Rose Royce. Now, the one that I actually purchased may look a little different than that.

What I see is what I just explained to you, but that's not really the car that it is. So I needed a new car, right? I mean, I've driven the old car right into the ground. Okay, so a one-owner car. They did a lot of work to it. You know, it was used. We found it. My wife found it on one of the banks that we deal with on their site.

It was traded in. And so we go look at it. Beautiful. Perfect. I mean, it's a good price, a fair price for it, in good shape. It looks like the rear seats, the rear passenger seats and the passenger side front seat or was barely sat in. I mean, the only seat that was used was where this overweight person sat more than me in the driver's seat.

Trust me when I tell you, you can, I know. I just trust me when I tell you, I know. But that's okay. I'm all right with that. I can juice it up a little bit with the electroconic seat up a little bit. We're good. If I have to, I'll put an extra spring in. But, but, so I get it.

Drive away. As I'm driving home, I hear this annoying noise underneath the dash, the front dash. I've never heard it. I've never heard it in a car like before. So I'm not, I don't know what it is. And I'm not a car guy, but I mean, I've driven, I've driven cars all my life. So there's this noise, and it doesn't, I don't think it's the engine. It's kind of, you know, when you're driving, you hear.

hear it, it's like in the, it's in the front of the steering wheel, and the dash, it may be up, it might be up underneath the hood just up underneath the dash, I'm not sure what it is, it's just kind of this rubbing noise. Now, I bought it used, I'm sorry, pre-owned. And so, you know, the deal, it's as

is, I got it. It's as is. But they give you a list of all the work they did on it, because, you know, that's what they do. They trade it in, they work on it, they sell it. That's the business they're in. And so when it's not under warranty anymore, every auto dealership, well, you can purchase our automobile long-term extension plan to take care of it for $800,000 a year. But you'll never have to change a tire again.

Oh, okay. So I take it back. Then I say, hey, here's this noise. What is it? The guy that sold it to me, Larry, gets in and drives me around the corner. He says, oh, that's a new one to me. Never heard that one before? Yeah, me either.

That's why I brought it back. So he drops me, I said, just drop me off up front in the lobby. I'll work. I got my laptop. I'll work. Oh, you know, take it back and let's, you know, find out what it is and get it done. So I'm just setting up in my little front lobby auto dealership space. logged into Wi-Fi, I'm ready to work.

Around the corner. Hey, Joe. And he tosses me the keys. He's got a Post-it note at his hand. And he says, yeah, listen, it's not a safety issue, so they're not going to fix it. Okay, well, what is it? He looks down to the post. And I think I've got to remember what the heck it's called now. It's like an intermediate drive shaft coupler that's worn out.

Okay, so that's the noise that I'm hearing. It's the intermediate drive shaft coupler. I think that's what it is. Now, I don't, I mean, I got to go back and look at the paperwork, but. It's not a safety. And I laughed. I just like, whatever, dude, how long is it take to fix it? Seriously.

You know, you're killing me. It's on the drive shaft. It's not a safety issue. Oh, no, seriously. I tried. But he's got it written down on the boson. This is what it costs for the part, and this would it cost for labor.

We can fix it for you. You can get it in here on Tuesday. No. So here's my dilemma. I have five days, as is, I have five days to decide whether I wanted or not. Before five days, I can pull, I'm presumably under law being able to roll it back into the auto nation.

I mean, the automobile dealership that I purchased the car from and say, I don't want it. it deals off and walk away, right? So do I do that and dare them to say, well, you know, fix this or, you know, I'm walking away? Now I've got to be ready to walk away because they might say we're not going to fix it. You know, I've got to be ready to walk away.

And I like the rolls. You know, I like the car that's, you know, looks like a rolls to me. And so that's my dilemma. Do I test it? Do I dare them? I've got to be willing to walk away. I've got to be willing to walk to work for the next week. Or, I'm not going to walk to work, I trust me.

I'll spend a million dollars on Uber before I walk to work. I promised you that. Or do I just live with it? And the guy, he told me it's not a safety issue. It's just the annoying sound. And, you know, so the next time I take it in somewhere, I'll get it fixed. Not by them. Another dime.

So that's my dilemma. I need your help. 888-90-3-33-93. What do I do? Do I dare him? Because I'm close, man. I was close to what he told me yesterday. I almost handed him the keys.

I'll call my wife. Come pick me up. You take it. You're not going to fix this thing. And it's not about the money. Look, it's like $150, something like that. It's not about the money. It's about the...

You sold me a car. And now it's got the... intermediate drive shaft coupler that's worn and it's making a you know a noise come on I I love the rules it drives great it's it handles great looks great I mean who else has oak dash right do you have a satellite phone in your car no I didn't think so okay so I that's my dilemma I'm I'm torn I'm torn to what to do so so Do I take it back to the car dealership AutoNation? I mean, just the car dealership, one of the franchises of AutoNation?

It won't fix $150 issue because it's as is used. Just a brand new, fresh off the lot. Brand new fresh off the lot used car. It's not a safety issue. Okay, but it's on the drive shaft. Isn't that, oh no. No, it's just an intermediate coupler. It's fine.

It's just war. worn down. And you just need a new intermediate coupler. They will put it on. I just spent $250,000 minus a few thousand for your new rolls. Fix it. I bet your Rolls-Royce would fix it. Yeah, but if I was looking at an actual Rolls-Royce, they would fix it.

2017 is going to be a volatile economic year. We may see politicians throughout the world attempting to control central bank policies. Several renowned financial analysts have warned that political interference in central bank policies may mean our economic misses of inflation and growth targets. Gold is an international currency that can't be issued or controlled by governments. If you don't have the only hard currency that has outlasted every politician and every failed idea of governments for centuries, you need to speak to Gold Line right now and learn how easy it is to add gold to your portfolio or IRA. Now is the time to diversify your financial portfolio by adding gold. Call 1-800-913 gold.

Buying real gold is easy and fast at Goldline. And you're going to be happy that you finally made the call. 1-800-913-4653. Goldline also offers price protection against short-term market fluctuations on qualifying purchases. So buy with confidence. Read Goldline's important risk information and find out of buying gold is right for you. Call Goldline, 1-800-913-4653.