I was disappointed with our call today, (Chuck West and Javier Castro) with you stating you have no "liability" to put in my HDMI cable so my new HD tv works with HD. I would have asked for the cable with the tv replacement, but it only seemed logical to put in the hd cable with the new tv. Below are listed the details of the purchase, I have held this email since Feb in hopes things would be shown to be not all that bad, but now feel there is a culture of dishonesty and non-disclosure in representing issues with customers, I do not have any trust in anything they do in Tucson. If you put in my hdmi cables, I would do my annual service there on coach and gen set as well, but now will be doing business across the street at Lazy Days. I hope you pass on these issues with the Tucson store, I will be telling everyone I see as well to stay away.
Here is what happened with our purchase of a 2006 Phaeton, January 30th, 2012, our first one with LaMesa, Tucson. What I really want to know is if this experience is typical, or part of an overall business plan or fraud and deception, or just incompetence.
When first looking at the coach, I asked the age of the tires, Al said he knew how to read the DOT date codes and went outside the coach to look at the tires, he came back and we were told the tires were 4 years old and thus OK.
After thinking about this for a few days, I found it hard to believe why the tires would have been replaced only two years after the coach was new, and asked be shown the DOT code, as it turned out, the tires were 8 years old, the original tires and needed to be replaced, but only because I did not go along with what I was initially told.
We shared the cost of the new tires, but they should have been replaced on LaMesa. Was Al wrong, mistaken or misleading us to take the old tires, just would like to know, I have a hard time believing he does not know how to read the dates accurately.
When our delivery date/walk through was to take place, Feb. 5th, we only had a few items to check on, however, when we got there, the windshield had neither been repaired or replaced as agreed. Upon trying to repair it, it cracked, so needed to be ordered, making us come back 5 days later to be installed. During the walk through, the fridge was not working, not on, warm. They acted surprised, it turned out the module had been sprayed during washing and was tripped, so replaced it, and found that both cooling fans were not working, shouldn't the fridge fans be checked as part of the PDI?. While removing the fridge to replace the fans, using only two guys to lift the fridge, they dropped it on the wood floor, gouging it, the blanket they put down was filthy and full of sand. The fridge still only gets down to 40-42 degrees set all night on 8, when it is 65 degrees in the coach, which makes me question how it will do in the summer heat.
When we tried to rinse out the black water tank the first time with the internal spray bar, no water would drain out, nothing, I took it back and they said the line was kinked, How did they do a PDI, rinse and test the tank without this line working? As to the fresh water tank, Xavier said they do not sanitize then unless they smell sour but Tom who did the walk through said they did sanitize it, who knows. The 7.5K generator got an oil change and oil filter, but with 529 hours, they did not change the fuel filter, which is due at 500 hrs, not having a history on the coach, I ask it be changed as well.
We had two new TV's installed, replacing the old ones, when we saw them we were shocked, they had taken a piece of plywood, covered it with white carpet and mounted the tv, then screwed the tv and plywood on the outside of the oak cabinet, the whole thing sticking out and additional 4-5 inches into the front walkway, I only wish I had taken pictures, so they remounted both, but there is no way to access the rear or side to install and HDMI cable for satellite, they said I just need to take it apart and put in the cable myself. why couldn't a cable be run to the outside when they installed it? now that the TV's are reinstalled, they are flush mounted on the carpet covered plywood and recessed in the cabinet, but there is no air space behind the TV, the owners manual says to have a minimum of 4 inches for heat dissipation, but when I questioned Lee about it, he said it did not matter as the newer LED TV's run cooler, still, why not follow the book? Isn't this a fire and liability issue? Does Lee know more than Samsung as to the heat these create?
Tires- So I have the new tires and ask if they are going to weight the coach, they say no. I ask, how can you set the tire pressure if you do not know the weight? Xavier said they just go by the plate in the coach 110 psi, well, I got it weighted, and for my weight the psi was 75, If I went with the 110 it would have been hard riding, bad wear, and even ill handling and dangerou read more