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Old 04-04-2006, 10:22 AM
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I gotta take my GTO in for some warranty work, and I was curious about people's experiences with various dealers around the area. I'd previously always taken my car to Kirkland Pontiac because they seemed to take care of me the best, but I haven't taken one of my Pontiacs in for service in a couple of years (I don't drive them all that often). I need to have the front alignment adjusted because of the strut rub issue with '04s... it's not bad, but it's really tight in there and it has rubbed a couple of times that I can see.

Is Kirkland Pontiac still any good? Or is there a better place to take them... I have to take it to a Pontiac dealer.
Old 04-04-2006, 11:39 AM
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I know it is a bit of drive, but Clyde Revord (Everett) is AWESOME for service.
Old 04-04-2006, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Rottluver
I know it is a bit of drive, but Clyde Revord (Everett) is AWESOME for service.
Yeah, that's a little too far away.. That's a 53 mile drive for me.
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Originally Posted by DrEvyl
Yeah, that's a little too far away.. That's a 53 mile drive for me.
Sorry, it's the only one I know of.
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I go to Auburn Valley Pontiac, from your place just take 90 -> 18 to Auburn Way North. Howard's my service guy. In fact, I'm stopping by this morning for my first actual broken part...a bulb burned out.
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Originally Posted by Crisisman
I go to Auburn Valley Pontiac, from your place just take 90 -> 18 to Auburn Way North. Howard's my service guy. In fact, I'm stopping by this morning for my first actual broken part...a bulb burned out.
Damn, last time I went down there I came home with a WRX STi..
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I would say either Kirkland or Bellevue. Dan in Bellevue has taken good care of me when I needed little stuff done. When I took the car into Kirkland to replace the window motor under warrantee (and told them what the problem was) they still did a diagnosis and tried to charge me for it.
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Kirkland has been good for warranty work, kinda surprised they haven't charged us for diagnostic work.

The only part that sucks is service first tells you if they can't fix it in half a day you get a rental paid for by GM.
A rush job is a poorly done job IMO.
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Well, I don't have to worry about a loaner car, I'm going to sit there any wait for them to finish. I have the day off work.
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I took my Grand Am to Kirkland because the ABS light was coming on... They couldn't find the problem and charged me 6 hours labor... wtf?

Turned out it was the wiring harness... Yeah, thanks guys, you failed on step #1 in diagnosing the issue..

Hopefully for them it was an isolated incident, but I won't be going back any time soon.
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I am guessing you want a Pontiac Dealership? I ask becuase Auburn Chevrolet always took car of the Camaro real good, even when I broke it at the track.
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Yeah, I don't think that a Chevy dealer would work on a GTO, since it's a Pontiac-only car.



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