[lmd]

Well, it happened the way I thought it would. They could not replicate the malfunction, could not find a problem, found no ‘bulletins’ from GM. So they did nothing to it. So, I didn’t buy it. It was the color combination we wanted, too: black with ebony/brick interior. I made some inquiries and spent some time online and found another one within a driving distance that we could live with, went and got it. The wipers work well on it, so far as I can tell. J So…all’s well that ends well.

I know that in many cases, in order to repair a problem, that problem needs to be observed so that it can be diagnosed. And in some cases, the ‘problem’ may be one of misperception on the part of the customer. When this dealer could not replicate it, he probably thought that I just did something wrong on a car that I wasn’t familiar with. Somewhere down the road, though, it will have to be dealt with. He did say that if there was a problem, they would ultimately get it taken care of, but I wasn’t going to shell out all of that money knowing that I will have to go through that ordeal. Parenthetically, it just does not seem like a hard problem to diagnose/repair. (...but I'm not a mechanic, and I don’t even play one on tv J)

I’m just glad it was raining when I test drove it.

The Malibu sure looks good in our driveway. What a car!

LMD