People don’t always bring stock cars to a dealership for maintenance. I understand stock cars are set up rich from the factory but that does not take away from the fact that they could lose control of the car or screw up a shift.
There is simply no need whatsoever for a mechanic to drive a car hard.
On that point I worked at a dealership in 2004 that put prochargers on a number of cars…
Guess what people went WOT after it was installed to make sure it was running properly not missing etc
Great. This car did not just have a procharger installed.
I’m assuming the dealership is tuning those cars too, no? It’s somewhat implied that if you need to tune a car you’re going to need to check how it is running under load throughout the rpm range. Completely different from taking an oil change vehicle out and driving the hell out of it. (And I admit the point that my comparison with my car was off to that effect)
I always reset the g meters to around 0.25 and record those values along with the mileage. If they drove the car more than a couple miles or set a new g meter record then I have a talk with the service manager.
Sorry but regardless if we are car guys… going WOT is no ones job but the owner of the car unless they are given permission. I personally do not let anyone drive my S. I dont want anyone redlining at 9k, misshifting and blowing the engine. I also dont want someone crashing it because they dont know how to handle the car. All cars handle different and for some of the, they only see a handful of times. I personally can be afraid of this car in the rain and know its limits now. Others taking my car do not if they havent owned one.
Yes, its an S2k and not a Aston Martin, but its still my car and no one elses. I have the say of how hard someone beats on my car, no one else. If they tell you, “the work we are doing needs us to go over x amount of RPM’s and or a certain speed” Then fine, I was told. But someone taking your car for a joy ride to give it a lot of gas is not cool. As stated above in other posts… I didnt pay thousands for someone else to destroy my car, I paid it for me to do that.
exactly
That’s fucked up. I beat on my GTO harder than most people here on the forum and I’d still be pissed to find out some tech was out doing anything beyond the minimum test drive required for the work done.
I don’t have much work done outside of my own garage but when I do I make it a point to ask who will have access to the car when I drop it off. Nothing confrontational, just a friendly casual conversation that lets them know I’ll be checking it carefully when I pick it up and mine probably isn’t the one to be out joyriding in.
How much could you enjoy joyriding in a slow car? 
Is it possible LZ argues for the sake of arguing? I mean, wtf, anyone would be pissed if a dealer beat the piss out of their ride. West Herr Subaru took my brand new wrx out for a gear banging session. I had roughly 168 miles on the odometer.
I would take a shower in a newly finished bath remod…and piss in the tub. Is that worse?
When the Evos hit the USA everyone was saying they should have less than 3 miles on them, no exceptions! My car had 11 miles on it. I was f’ing pissed but what could I do?
Haha my Evo had over 200 when I picked it up. An “older gentleman drives all our cars back” is what transit Towne stated. I’m sure they beat the absolute living piss out of it but it doesn’t burn oil and dyno’d 247hp/257tq bone stock so whatever. Saying that though if I witnessed one of the dealer techs launching it and then suddenly I needed a new clutch while it was in for service(which it will never be dealer serviced) I’d procede for him to be acquainted with my fist. Sure it’s “only” a 40k car but go do that shit with someone else’s car thanks.
Having worked at both west herr and northtown let’s just say i never take my car there to get serviced.
Does Basil Toyota do good work?
I have never nor will I beat on a customers truck or another mans car for that matter. I respect other people’s vehicles that they’ve worked their asses off for.
You paid $40k for an Evo?
I use to work at transit towne, all the lot guys, Half the techs and some of the sales staff beat the fuck out of the evoX’s when the came out Haha
I only ever showed the used MR they had a good time
Yeah base price is 36k. Go build one on the site for shits and giggles. You can load em up near 50k…
He needs to hear himself talk I think. Makes himself looking important. AKA I worked at a dealership that installed prochargers. When he really swept the floors while the mechanics were working