Datajockeys
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My wife is in the dog house for wishing for a "White Christmas". Here in the Portland area, life shuts down at 2". We have over 14".
My outside service van had it's frosty toupe' fully intact when in the driveway. At my 1st stop, AVALANCHE! Along with the snow pack was my antenna! I am not impressed. If a "Mercedes" engineered antenna cant handle snow. I can understand if I whacked it into an overhead or it was ice or something... But snow?
Now being trans-gendered has its fallbacks. The antenna is actually functional, especially with AM. Off to the dealer! At first there was an issue weather to bother with warranty for a $5.00 part. Turns out that just the wire (not the base) is $114.00! So I made it a warranty issue. There was some resistance, but they saw I was not messing around.
The antenna arrives the day before Christmas. To be covered under warranty, an authorizes Sprinter Technician has to screw it in. So I am waiting a week for the qualified person to get off vacation.
A little bit of intel while I was there...
The parts person said that Chrysler marks up ALL of the Sprinter parts 40% and then the dealer marks the parts up from there. So we have Mercedes wholesale + Chrysler wholesale + Dealer retail markup = RIPOFF! I can understand why some of you are brokering shipping containers of parts out of Germany. The way Chrysler is tanking, this may be a lucrative business!
My outside service van had it's frosty toupe' fully intact when in the driveway. At my 1st stop, AVALANCHE! Along with the snow pack was my antenna! I am not impressed. If a "Mercedes" engineered antenna cant handle snow. I can understand if I whacked it into an overhead or it was ice or something... But snow?
Now being trans-gendered has its fallbacks. The antenna is actually functional, especially with AM. Off to the dealer! At first there was an issue weather to bother with warranty for a $5.00 part. Turns out that just the wire (not the base) is $114.00! So I made it a warranty issue. There was some resistance, but they saw I was not messing around.
The antenna arrives the day before Christmas. To be covered under warranty, an authorizes Sprinter Technician has to screw it in. So I am waiting a week for the qualified person to get off vacation.
A little bit of intel while I was there...
The parts person said that Chrysler marks up ALL of the Sprinter parts 40% and then the dealer marks the parts up from there. So we have Mercedes wholesale + Chrysler wholesale + Dealer retail markup = RIPOFF! I can understand why some of you are brokering shipping containers of parts out of Germany. The way Chrysler is tanking, this may be a lucrative business!