Chaconzies
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Had my first scheduled maintenance with the dealer.
A little backstory, bought my Spark in May last year. Blew a hole in the sidewall of the tires at about 2500 miles so I bought two new front tires (Yoko Avid Ascends)
Anyways, I knew I should go in for the 7500 miles when I hit that but I wanted to get the recall hood latch done at the same time.
First time I called George Chevy they didn't have the parts. Then things got busy with school. Some time passed but I ended up finally going in last week at around 10,000 miles.
Made an appointment online for 9:40. When I got there I gave them the keys and talked with the service staff.
Alfred was initially not sure of what would need to be done because they don't work on the Spark EVs all too often. They had to look up the service schedule and I was asked multiple times to confirm that my Spark ran on "no gas... like at all right?" :lol: Yes.
Anyways we got it sorted out and they said that they'd fix the recall, and do all the other things on the (very short) maintenance schedule.
I made sure to let Al know that the tires were different sizes on front and rear and asked if they could check to see if there was a software update.
Signed some papers and got an estimated finish time of 12 noon :shock: but they were pretty busy. So I took their free shuttle home (I live pretty close) and watched some Netflix
Got a call about 11:40 saying they had completed the hood latch recall fix and that the car was ready. Got picked up by the shuttle and headed back.
When I arrived I talked to Al he basically said that he was surprised by how little maintenance needed to be done. Aside from the hood latch they basically just inflated the tires and topped off the windshield wiper fluid. Since I had gotten new tires not long ago the side to side rotation wasn't necessary and quite frankly EVs are pretty simple.
Cost for everything was covered under the warranty (it's a lease) and overall it wasn't too much of a hassle except for the time.
Al told me he liked the compactness of the car and asked me how quick it was. I told him that he definitely needs to test drive one!
When I got the car from the service guy he also thought it was a pretty slick little ride and said that he was looking into getting something like it.
Pretty good experience. There was no software update though.
Anyways if you have any questions feel free to comment or message me personally.
A little backstory, bought my Spark in May last year. Blew a hole in the sidewall of the tires at about 2500 miles so I bought two new front tires (Yoko Avid Ascends)
Anyways, I knew I should go in for the 7500 miles when I hit that but I wanted to get the recall hood latch done at the same time.
First time I called George Chevy they didn't have the parts. Then things got busy with school. Some time passed but I ended up finally going in last week at around 10,000 miles.
Made an appointment online for 9:40. When I got there I gave them the keys and talked with the service staff.
Alfred was initially not sure of what would need to be done because they don't work on the Spark EVs all too often. They had to look up the service schedule and I was asked multiple times to confirm that my Spark ran on "no gas... like at all right?" :lol: Yes.
Anyways we got it sorted out and they said that they'd fix the recall, and do all the other things on the (very short) maintenance schedule.
I made sure to let Al know that the tires were different sizes on front and rear and asked if they could check to see if there was a software update.
Signed some papers and got an estimated finish time of 12 noon :shock: but they were pretty busy. So I took their free shuttle home (I live pretty close) and watched some Netflix
Got a call about 11:40 saying they had completed the hood latch recall fix and that the car was ready. Got picked up by the shuttle and headed back.
When I arrived I talked to Al he basically said that he was surprised by how little maintenance needed to be done. Aside from the hood latch they basically just inflated the tires and topped off the windshield wiper fluid. Since I had gotten new tires not long ago the side to side rotation wasn't necessary and quite frankly EVs are pretty simple.
Cost for everything was covered under the warranty (it's a lease) and overall it wasn't too much of a hassle except for the time.
Al told me he liked the compactness of the car and asked me how quick it was. I told him that he definitely needs to test drive one!
When I got the car from the service guy he also thought it was a pretty slick little ride and said that he was looking into getting something like it.
Pretty good experience. There was no software update though.
Anyways if you have any questions feel free to comment or message me personally.