Re: Straight Up Age Discrimination... is it really my fault?!
Put away you soap box I am sorry to disappoint you but most likely it has nothing to do with age discrimination. I have encountered the same experience you have at a dealership where I had purchased (but no more) two previous vehicles and I am more then twice your age. My car also has also experienced more problems as a result of work done preformed my my local dealer. I too got the same oh well attitude from the general manager after their so called techs worked on my car for a wind noise on the passenger side and ended up ruining the weatherstripping on the driver side, installed the wrong oil even after I scheduled the oil change in advance and had the price quoted for Mobil 1 0-40w. The only way I ever got my car back to the factory condition was to contact the regional manager directly. The Regional Manager sent me to another dealership, one that also sold and worked on Audi and BMW. My advice go your dealership and request the number of the Regional Manager in your area. If they don't want to give it to you ask how they would like to see your car in the local paper with huge lemon by it sitting in front of their dealership in the local newspaper with the caption Don't let this happen to you. This is a little trick I learned from my uncle, business will blow you off if they can but they will not risk negative publicity and will usually settle.