ok guy so here's how it went down. first of all it's on my SS/SC so that why i posted it here, but if it needs to be moved please move it. ok so i took my car in for an oil change, just hit 4000 on the way home from class... so i went and bought oil and took it to the local chevy dealership. they squeezed me in at the last minute. well i thought everything was going to be cool ya know, go in , get the oil changed, and pick the car up... when i get there, the service manager tells me that they took care of my oil change, that i didn't have to worry about paying for it... that was the only good new i got out of this visit... he tells one of his workers that he needs to talk to me... he all i got some bad news.. when they were backing your car off the lift they kinda caught the front lip on the lift and kinda damaged it... right there was enough to nearly put me into tears... i was like ... he told me one of his shop managers came in a said they had a lil accident... he told me the first thing that come out of his mouth was "please tell me it wasn't the ss"... they told him "well i guess i won't tell you then"... to save face they gave me the oil change free and they had to order me a new lip... so that oil change is going to end up costing about 6 bills after they paint the new lip... anywho, i talked to him for a minute, he almost got me to buy the GMPP exhaust which IS the Corsa, and proceeded to tell me that he had heard the GMPP upgrades were coming out, and were coming very soon... anywho this is all i have to say..
oil change + oil = $35
new front lip and paint = $550
the look on the service managers face when he found out they f-ed up my car = priceless
there are some things you can't buy, for everything else there is the GM dealerships insurance...

Here's a pic of the damage, it isn't too bad but it sucks

 

The lip is seperate from the bumper?? I galged my lip the 2nd week I had the car!

 

Yea that sucks, just to clarify, no moneys coming out of your pocket right?

Good news is its not that noticable so you should be OK until it gets fixed. At least they didnt try to deny it and be liek "It was there before we got it"

 

nah, no money out of my pocket... i told the service manager that i was glad he told me, and i also told him that i will gladly take my car to them for everything, GMPP upgrades and service, they were awesome.. Mad Props to PL Chevrolet....

 

So far my dealer has been really kool, I sure hope it stays that way. My sales man browses these forums all the time, and he found my vids of me racing my brother

he was kool about it, I just hope GM's not like Mitsubishi and Subaru when it comes to voiding waranties for BS stuff.

 

yeah my dealership is awesome, i mean i didn't buy the car there because they couldn't get my payments to 292 like i have them, but i mean whenever i've taken my car up there, they've been great about it, they been nice and respectful... i couldn't ask for anything else... but he want to put the upgrades on my car, he told me that when they get wind of being able to order them he' going to call me... i mean that's great service... he told me most dealers wouldn't have admitted doing that, but he want's my business so he's going to be honest he walked me out there, got the paint code, and told me he'd call me in a week or so when the part was ready to get put on... to me that's quality service... i know where my upgrades are getting put on... thank you PL Chevrolet...

 

chances are thats its also scratched down to the plastic underneath the valence too. but im glad they are fixing it for ya man.

ryan

 

O how the front lip is so fun. If you look at my sig it shows raccoon mod. Since this thread started I figured id explain my story.

I live in Oklahoma. Tulsa to be exact. I have friends that live out in the damn country tho. I was taking one of my buddies home and its a little 2 lane road thats smooth ass hell. So of course im doing about 80 down it.

I see this little thing to the right of the road and it starts running across the road. now this is a smooth but narrow road with trees on either side of the road like 4 feet off the road. so trying to dodge this thing is not an option. id rather hit a raccoon then a tree.

The thing is if this damn raccoon dident stop I dont think I would have hit it. I swear the damn thing stopped in the middle of the road looked at me then cocked its head. I was like MOVE ****ER! Then im about 3 feet from the damn thing and it starts running again. Just in time for me to cream the **** outa him with my passenger side fog light.

So now I have a small hole in the bumper and it about ripped off the passenger side of the bumper lip off. My passenger side fog light? I have no clue where that blew off to. The water guard on the passenger side under the bumper almost all gone.

That raccoon messed my car all up. So its been kinda this big joke with all my buddies I hang with. Whenever they see a cat or some animal outside they yell Hey Mike go get em! LOL I kinda find it funny myself now. In fact I figured out the plate I wanna get now. RCN0SS1

 

welcome to the wonderfull world of front lips , LOL

the 02 cavalier Z24's and LS sports have a cliped on lip , and they get abused alot , most of the time i see them the front lip is gone , lol

its nice to see a dealer that is honest and wants to help you out with mods !!!!!!!!!

 

That was a really hard post to read through.

 

Same thing happened to me the first night i had the car, i was driving it home a a friggin skunk ran out infront of me, good thing the damn thing ducked... as soon as a got to a gas station i parked in the most well lit place and checked out my front end.. i was lucky that there was no damage, but i am sorry to here about ur car... Go Get em, cream that kitty...

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Armadillo’s jump in the air seconds before you hit them - avoid them at all costs, lol.

 

Bastards

 

Ahhhhhhh good old Texas speed bumps. I don't miss those suckers at all...now I have to worry about the damn deer everywhere.

 

one of those deer thingys ran into my brothers sunfire down here, and it ran off... literally out of the blue just ran straight into it head first into the rear 1/4 panel... they should have been doing this

 

LOL!

Yeah they just released a report like 2 weeks ago...PA has the highest number of deer killed on the road than any other state. Bastards...

 

well. what else did he say about the exhaust and upgrades... come on he feels bad did you hit im for the info while he was down

 

but of course... he didn't tell me much because he didn't know much, but he told me what he knew... he told me that the corsa exhaust was the GMPP exhaust that was going to be released, he knew that the header the gm was releasing was going to release some ponies... he also knew that the stage upgrades were coming, and it wasn't going to be but about a month or so... he said the potenial that he sees in the car is phenominal... he says that the engine and the setup is the best gm has released in a 4 cylinder... he loves the car and hated to see it hurt about as bad as i did... any more questions just ask. i will try to help...

 

Your lucky you have a good dealer.The guys at the parts department at the dealer where I bought my car think STAGE 2 will make theese cars do 8's 1/4 I have Life time free oil changes but when they do the oil change oil is everywhere in the engine bay and all over the paint on the outside,Even on my steering wheel.Can you see them doing a reflash????