I am very angry: 1 month after my 1500 mile check up this happened. I had asked for all recalls to be done and I was assured they were. Wasn't the loose screw failure a recall item? Has anyone had experience getting the paint repaired by Lamborghini under warranty?

Yes It WAS a Recall Item!!!

Search the archives, there's about 25 posts at least, where we have discussed this at lenght. Lambo has even painted a bunch of cars as part of the recall.

Yeah I saw a post or two, I just am pissed that I just experienced this after I had the car at a dealer in August 2005. It seems I should have no trouble having the factory pick up the tab for the paint job.

which dealer has screwed up THIS time...? For the price of the cars and servicing, WHY can't these dealers clean up their acts and do their jobs properly? Absolutely no excuse for someones car to experience damage like this.

Because they don't want to hire experienced techs! because they want real money and simply dot every i and cross every T and pass the paperwork along!!! It's not about real work or thourough inspection (= lack of respect of owners)!!

Do you realize that the best Techs know more than the Service Managers!?!?! and get paid less!!

Ferrari of Houston actualy told me about 8 yrs ago from Sid Simpson (General Manager, friend and now retiired) direct from Josespi Risi's (OWNER of FoH) mouth that I knew too much about the cars and could cause problems with their bottom line, if I catered to the customers instead of the Co.'s wishes & wants!!! I saw the head Tech from Lod, plug in Their Magic Diagnostic Box at the Texas Running of the Bulls 03 and not even know how to turn it on!!! I had to help him because he'd been working on Lambo's for a month or maybe a few weeks!! Don't believe me ask WHB!!!


So there is your answer!

What the F**K is up with these 200K + per car Dealers? You'd think they would be above such low class bulls**t penny pinching over a 200K+ car. This s**t just burns my noodle...Why we need People like Roy to own the Lamborghini dealerships...Selling Lamborghini's should be a privelage, not a right to rape it's customers of every last nickel.....I'd expect things like this from a used car dealer in Mississipi...But Goddam*... I guess we can just look at a large percentage of millionares, who rob people for there wealth...If this planet goes in a nuclear hollocaust anytime soon, it wouldn't be undeserved.

What the F**K is up with these 200K + per car Dealers? You'd think they would be above such low class bulls**t penny pinching over a 200K+ car. This s**t just burns my noodle...Why we need People like Roy to own the Lamborghini dealerships...Selling Lamborghini's should be a privelage, not a right to rape it's customers of every last nickel.....I'd expect things like this from a used car dealer in Mississipi...But Goddam*... We didn't make our millions to have it leeched away by lecherous swine...

Serpentine,

First I agree with you but try to calm down some

Lamborghini is in a serious period of growth and will definately have growing pains. There were about a dozen real Lamborghini Mechanics before this expansion and most of them owned there own shops, so Lambo is filling this void created by expansion with any tech they can find from other makes, that are just used to running around the cars and running up Flat Rate Hours. The second problem is a new Generation of owners that want their cars back FAST.

Wellllll.........working FAST on cars like Lamborghinis (with inexperienced techs) has never been possible in the past and it's probably not a good idea now. But working slow and careful eats into a Dealers Bottom Line.

So when you combine inexperience with hurry up service the above is what you get.

I had the same problem with my car. It was after the recall too. It seems the new screws weren't the right size and had to be replaced again. The buttress was repainted at no cost to me. It seems it wasn't the dealer's fault.

BTW, I've found the best way to handle dealers (or pretty much anyone else in life) is to be friendly and acknowledge the difficult job they do. They seem to respond better to being treated as professionals than fools.

Here's my old post

http://www.lamborghini-talk.com/vbfo...7895#post17895

I read an article a couple months ago, that interviewed the president of Lambo. The most interesting thing he said, was that the customer base and demands of their customers had changed with the Gallardo. In summary, he said that prior to the G car, most Lambo customers would use their cars for a coupe thousand miles max a year, so a 2 year warranty would cover Lambo. With the G car, he said that people use them to drive to work, and that lambo, as a company, has to do better to service this new customer base. So, to your point, they are working on it.
I just wish there was a little more luggage space so one could actually use it from more than a weekend car.