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Cadillac Forums: Do you all realize how well we got it?
I actually had the first problem on my car this past week. My seat motor took a crap and wouldn't adjust to my settings, so I shipped it off to the dealer two days ago.
Anyway, long story short they gave me a Saab 93 to drive since they were out of Caddies. I know this rental is not comparable to the V in terms of features, but no kidding aside, this thing is a pile of sheit and I don't think it's a cheap car either. The doors are flimsy, the controls suck, the seats are brutally uncomfortable with few ways to adjust them, the car is loud and the 2.0t engine can't get out of it's way at low rpms.
All I know is I'll be giving my STS a big hug when I get her back (hopefully today). Do we realize how nice our cars really are? I now do and I dedicate this thread to spreading love to our cars.
oh yeah...plus it seems like I get less hassle w/anything related to warranty or service issues. Just bring it in and they make it happen. Sometimes Id have to argue a point w/the CTSv...not the STSv...they just do it.
I actually had the first problem on my car this past week. My seat motor took a crap and wouldn't adjust to my settings, so I shipped it off to the dealer two days ago.
Anyway, long story short they gave me a Saab 93 to drive since they were out of Caddies. I know this rental is not comparable to the V in terms of features, but no kidding aside, this thing is a pile of sheit and I don't think it's a cheap car either. The doors are flimsy, the controls suck, the seats are brutally uncomfortable with few ways to adjust them, the car is loud and the 2.0t engine can't get out of it's way at low rpms.
All I know is I'll be giving my STS a big hug when I get her back (hopefully today). Do we realize how nice our cars really are? I now do and I dedicate this thread to spreading love to our cars.
I've had a 1993 BMW 750iL V12 for 11 years. About 4 years ago my wife and I were invited to this Lexus event in which we got to autocross (no kidding) the entire Lexus lineup plus the latest E and S class Mercedes and 7 and 5 series Bimmers. With the exception of the latest BMW 7, we left yawning and shrugging our shoulders, as none of those cars were any better than what we already had. The new 7 was a brilliant chassis shrouded under a technological/maintenance nightmare, so we passed.
The STS-V is the ONLY car we've ever driven that persuaded us to get rid of the 750.
i still drive around with fogged up headlights....so that tells u how much i like this car. !! p.s. my friend took it for a spin and said that he even likes it better than his friends e55 and m6....not kidding..
The STS-V is hands down the best car I have ever owned and I have owned at least 25 cars in the last 7 years. My wife's 2007 Escalade is also hands down the best SUV we have ever owned. I am sticking with Cadillac for the rest of my life!
At the Cadi dealer I worked at in MO, we used to have in house loaner cars. We were a 5 badge dealer.
Olds, Pontiac, Cadillac, GMC Truck and Buick.
Our loaners were new (at the time) Grand Ams.
When our Cadi customers would come in complaining about squeaks and rattles, we'd give them a Grand Am loaner for a few days then whether it was fixed or not they didn't complain anymore!
(we did fix them by the way, I just always thought it was funny)
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So wait to you hear this. Yesterday here in the Northeast we were projected a snow/rain storm for the afternoon. I bring the POS Saab into work and hoped the storm would be mostly rain (as they predicted) and I would have no problems getting home.
Well, at 12:00 I got the call that the V was done. By 2:30 it was snowing pretty good but not sticking to the roads, so I headed out to get the V and take it home. My trip home was mostly freeway and I had no problem until.............I got home and off the freeway exit. I live in an area that always gets more snow, so I was just praying that they had salted/plowed. By that time I was crapping a brick. Here I am in my beautiful car with GSD3 tires in the middle of snow storm! Wrong thing to do. Anyway, I tried to make it go even up slight inclines with just a slightly snow covered road and she didn't want to go. Spinning horribly, even when at a stop (in drive). I gave up and coasted backwards onto a side street and parked her at the curb and called my wife to come pick me up (in her monster SUV and only about a mile from my house).
The V sat there fortunately unharmed (thank god to that) until late last night when the roads were cleared enough to hobble it home. Bullet dodged, I was lucky as hell.
So, moral of the story, I love my V, but it don't love even a little bit of snow. It's in the garage now for the rest of winter and I'll just drive my truck for the next 6 weeks. That experience was just too scary.
