Wondering if I just lost out...

[mom-from-missouri]

The dealership where I bought my car had a deal, that if you bought from them, and had them do all your routine maintance at the required points, you got free tires for life.

They did all my maintance as required. I already got my first set of tires from them, but we paid for part of them as we wanted a heavier tire than what they specified for the car (mainly because we live on gravel and I drive it often).

Sounds wonderful, doesn't it???

Well, the dealership is now closed. They closed the Friday before Christmas in the middle of the day. Due to finances. Even the employees didn't know what was going on. DH went to take his truck in for an oil change and saw the sign on the door. So, he went to another Chevy dealership to change it and they told him, the one we used went under.

I can't seem to find out about my free tires for life program. Several dealers around here offered it, so I assumed it was a Chevy thing, not a local dealership thing. Or, did just one dealership offer it and the rest did a copy-cat of it??? I called a couple of dealerships to ask them, and they don't seem to want to help me over the phone. My next oil change is coming up in about a week, so I guess I will have to call Chevy corp on Monday to find out???

If I have lost it, I'll go to jiffy lube and save $7. But if the program is still good at another dealership, and I go to jiffy lube, then I have voided my places of where I can get it done at and I will lose it because I went to the wrong place.

Is anyone out there a Chevy employee that knows so I don't have to wait all weekend to find out???

[MiikeB]

Probably a program offered by the dealerships, but if you talk to a service manager he may be willing to offer to continue it if you continue to get all your service there. Dealerships sometimes due this to build customer loyalty for the future.

[Snave]

While you may have lost out, this could be a good lesson for all of us now. With the economy the way it is and businesses going under, we should be taking the cash off or discounts or something vs. a long-term gain. I just saw one of those "on your side" news stories the other day where some people bought from a granite company that went out of business and they were without their product that they paid for. One guy was out several thousand dollars b/c he had paid so much up front and in cash. They said one way to avoid this is to put it on a credit card and you can then deal with it that way. This is one time I would use my cc.

[mom-from-missouri]

I wouldn't say I completely lost out. My DH is a barginer. The sticker price was close to $17,000 and we paid $11,000, acutally a little under. And the first years oil changes were free, and a $250 prepaid gas card came with it.
So, we did get a discount on it. In fact, we later found out we got a better deal than one of their employees got when she bought hers (I saw hers at church and fell in love with it-thats one reason we bought what we got)

[Ima saver]

I don't have any idea, but we bought a new corvette at a chevy dealership and we were NOT offered anything for free, including tires.