I know I'm dredging up an old thread, but I thought it'd be interesting to tell that at 98,000 miles, I have gotten the full 99M03 monty. And how.

My car's been at the stealership for over six weeks. I still don't have my car. In addition to the 99M03 work, I've had a replacement radiator put in (I'm paying for that), new water pump belt and lower radiator hose (my cost), a new windshield (they broke the old one), a new power steering line (they broke it), and it's taken four days so far to work out the billing for some reason. Parts deliveries added probably a solid week of time. Oh yeah, my mechanic quit before it was done, so it took the managers a few days to find someone to finish it up, and someone else blew up a gas tank elsewhere in the service bay.

I pride myself on being a patient and understanding customer, but . My only real consolation is that while it's taken forever, my mechanic (who's a CEG member) was eyeballing everything during disassembly/ reassembly and I can assume that it's all been bolted back together to proper specs. For a car with almost 100K miles on it, this is a nice bonus.

Now I just have to get it back.


"Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed." Clarkson on the Mondeo.