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Originally Posted by Laner99
You dont see anything wrong with this set up? Let's change the situation and put it into another business situation and see if this makes sense.
So you buy a truck and are leasing the truck for monthly payments of $1000 per month. Then all of a sudden your truck has a safety issue at no fault to you and the manufacture requires that you return the truck to get it fix. They dont know how long you will be without your truck, maybe a week, maybe a month, maybe a year. But while they have your truck they still want you to make the $1000 monthly payments on the truck. Even though you have no truck to drive you still have to pay for it. But for each day you dont have your truck they will give you 3% on the dollar for the payments you have made and eventually credit you the difference on future payments or in the event that you want to buy more trucks from them.
Does that sound fair. Chances are you wouldnt be very happy.
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Actually, that's probably significantly more than you would receive in that scenario. In reality, you might get a loaner vehicle to drive while yours is out of commission. The loaner will probably not be as nice as your vehicle, and it might not even be a truck, so if you use it for work, you might be screwed. Plus, you'd still have to make all payments.
The chances that the car company would give you any financial compensation for loss of use are extremely low.
I've had recalls on cars in the past and didn't receive any compensation, or even a loaner car for the day. I had to drop the car off at the dealership on my own time and at my own expense, received a ride on the dealership's courtesy shuttle to work, then a ride back to the dealership when the car was ready.
Do you really think that if your truck was off the road for a month, the car company would say, "sorry for the inconvenience, we have credited your account with $1002.50 for your troubles, and you can either take that as cash now, or keep it in your account to take off a future payment"?
If the Flames treated this like a car company would treat a recall, the offer would have been to replace our tickets for every cancelled Flames game with a ticket for a Hitmen game, and we would keep paying full price for our Flames tickets.