The Red one must have been mine. I have the only red one in the GTA. The orange one came from North York Chrysler. I saw the one at Stouffville, but got a better deal at Vaughan.
Good negotiated deal in Ontario?
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I saw the red one (you) heading South on the 404 and the orange one heading East on the 401 in Mississauga, had a hitch with a cage on the back.
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......saw a green one too with kayak racks heading West on the 401 last week.
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I'm so happy to see so many of you guys are happy with your Renegades. I still have yet to get mine back and a firm answer as to what is really long. I believe they are beginning into looking for a new one for me, with my exact specs, which makes things a little bit more challenging.
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Any updates on what the exact issues are? From your previous posts it sounded like software, but then you mentioned something about missing seals? Doesn't sound good. Hope they figure that out.
I'm still waiting on mine, last update was that it's being framed 2 weeks ago but still no delivery date.
Has anyone had any experience with actually returning their vehicle and getting their money back? I know the states have the lemon laws, wondering if there's anything similar here.
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That was just the beginning. They replaced the valve body, which is what they needed the seals for. After they re-programmed and did software stuff, the car wouldn't start. This is when they realized that the wiring harness was crushed, they replaced that. When the car started, it was stuck in reverse. They finally have it out of that and it then recognized drive, neutral, and reverse, but not park. They were told what they had to do through tech line. They looked at the shifter. It now drives, but they were given something to test from tech line, so if they got that done yesterday, they will have to wait to hear back from tech line, which takes forever. I'm on Day 22 of driving a rental car, and not happy with my purchase at all. I opened a case with FCA and they are zero help. I am wondering if it is something to do with the BCM after doing some research on here, but they won't replace any of that type of stuff unless tech line tells them to.
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I'm sorry to hear that, and that stuff does worry me a lot about my purchase. There was a thread here I read as well about the crushed wires and them not assembled properly that caused issues.
Thanks for the insight. It seems that for the large percentage of people issues are minor, but for the small percentage the issues are disastrous, do you think you'll wait it out or seek legal action?
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I can't afford to go the legal route. The whole point of me buying a new car was to ensure I would not run into this problem. I'm kind of stuck at this point. I do not think they will replace the car even though it has so many problems and they cannot pinpoint the exact problem.
You have been more than patient. When it reaches 30 days have a sit down with the dealer principal. This is the guy that owns the dealership. Tell him you want a new car and should not have to deal with this any longer. Tell him as nicely as possible how loyal you are and that you really like the vehicle but cannot trust it at this point. If he says no inform him that you will see a lawyer and see what your options are. No dealer wants to get involved with legal issues especially when they can get FCA corporate to just take a loss on the vehicle.
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I got a call from the dealership today that the car had been road tested and can be picked up tomorrow. The service manager didn't want me picking it up unless both him and the mechanic were there, as we are all going to go on a road test to ensure it seems okay. I am also going to ensure that all software updates are done on it. If something happens and I have to bring it back (knock on wood), I am getting a new car and I don't care what it takes. That would be absolutely ridiculous. 28 days will be this coming Friday, so I will be picking it up after 27 days in the dealership. I have owned the car for 29.
Thats great news. Let us know how it works out. I am sure we are all confident that the problems have been fixed and you can finally enjoy the car.
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I have the car back and it has been driving great. The mechanic who has had it for the last 27 days just decided to search for something on his own that didn't look right in the car and he found a loose lever of some sort. As soon as it was fixed the car drove again. He took it fora 100km road test and we both went out today on a road test and it was driving awesome
Now that's an awesome mechanic, at least we know who you'll be going to next time!I have the car back and it has been driving great. The mechanic who has had it for the last 27 days just decided to search for something on his own that didn't look right in the car and he found a loose lever of some sort. As soon as it was fixed the car drove again. He took it fora 100km road test and we both went out today on a road test and it was driving awesome
Some mechanics are absolutely clueless as to what to do at times.
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He had been working on my car since day 1, but was doing what tech line told him to do. Tech line was just taking way too long, and I don't really think they knew what to do. I am very lucky to have a mechanic who now knows my car inside and out as he has had it apart so many times.
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Just got back from the dealers. Had a good experience, local dealer is really nice. We'll definitely go here for service but where we buy the car in the end, dunno yet. Took a North package out for a quick zip around. Hey, what's not to love. It feels like your driving a truck, but then you open the door and just step out. i kinda liked that.
Here's what we considered ordering:
Trailhawk
Keyless Go package
Remote start
Cold Weather (the "Canada" package)
Powered mysky (which can also still be manually removed which is cool, i didn't know that)
Trailer tow (yes, mysky AND trailer tow! you can't build that on jeep.ca)
Customer preferred package (no idea what this is)
Affiliate discount of $1475 (i didn't even know this was available, dealer just told me due to company i work for)
Admin costs $499
Total price $35189 + tax
I am considering also to call 3rd party company that negotiates prices for you as i don't really like negotiating, its just not my thing.
Here's what we considered ordering:
Trailhawk
Keyless Go package
Remote start
Cold Weather (the "Canada" package)
Powered mysky (which can also still be manually removed which is cool, i didn't know that)
Trailer tow (yes, mysky AND trailer tow! you can't build that on jeep.ca)
Customer preferred package (no idea what this is)
Affiliate discount of $1475 (i didn't even know this was available, dealer just told me due to company i work for)
Admin costs $499
Total price $35189 + tax
I am considering also to call 3rd party company that negotiates prices for you as i don't really like negotiating, its just not my thing.
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You have to haggle over the price. I haggle over anything I can.
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They had there price way too high. I just went to Jeep web site and built a Renegade and added ever option and the price total was only $31,335. So for them to have it listed at 36k they where just trying to rip people off.
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Hi Knucklez, thought i just chime in with my recent purchase, I got a TH as well, I took a while at the dealership to understand all the group options (I don't know why they made it so complicated) at the end of the day I went with premium leather group (which includes cold weather and most of the popular equipment group, and obviously leather seats) and power my sky, came to around 34K + hst, so i negotiated around 2200 off the msrp (msrp $36,400), which i don't think is the best i could have done, but pretty decent for a new model car and didn't want to spend more time at the dealership.
I went and tried to configure your options on jeep.ca (fyi you can add power mysky and trailer tow on jeep.ca), also keyless go and remote start is part of the cold weather pack, so they shouldn't be selling you extra for those. even then the msrp is $35,680 so not sure what kind of "discount" they were telling you about but it doesn't add up, i think you can do better.
O, i also got them to remove the admin fee, they can totally do that. The only thing thats really non-negotiable is the destination charge, federal AC tax, and obviously the hst, everything else is negotiable.
Also keep in mind these take months to build and deliver, i ordered mine pretty much at the end of June, just got a call from the dealership that it will arrive mid November.
Hope that helps.
-Tofu
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