wow. it never ceases to amaze me what another person will do to your car. i thought my situation was bad, yours is right up there. i hope the dealership does right by you and pays up. good luck

 

Yes please do elaborate. You just don't drop a bomb like that and move along. Details, repercussions, and so on.

 

Are you a lawyer? Do you have proof?

 

lawyer? No, Insurance adjuster? YES!!! It also happened to me, exactly the same and they tried to pull the same Shit.

Step One- Laugh in their faces
Step Two- Call them a liar to their faces
Step Three- Make sure a proper incident report is filed
Step Four- File a claim with YOUR insurance
Step Five- Your insurance companies lawyer sues HIM and wins easily
Step Six- Tell him that you will find his insurance company, report the increasing risk and threaten to have his insurance dropped or increased dramatically.
Step 7- watch him fold faster then Chinese Origami.


No matter WHAT signs he has displayed to fool idiots, the moment he takes posetion of your car is the moment he has 100% liability no matter what.

 

My insurance company will more than likely pursue a settlement with the dealership, either way I am going to attempt to speak with the local PD and explain my suspicions about this entire situation. I'm more worried about the possibility of my car being near the ******* that did this the first time and him deciding my rims would be another nice piece to add to his growing collection. They've stored the vehicle inside the building for now, but if the thief is an employee that doesn't really help me very much.

 

probably a porter....that sucks though.

 

Not to be an *** but Origami is actually Japanese.

 

I am surprised that Rice doesnt have camras watching their lot. I know that to get on to our lot your are taped by no less than 2 camras at any given time. As far as the police, you need to file a complaint. They HAVE to go out to the scene of the crime when you file a police report. Best of luck to you though.

 

If a person signs giving the dealership permission to work on their car, they are also signing to release the dealership of any theft, damages, or vandilisium. Read the fine print before you sign and you will see what I am talking about.

 

Such disclaimers are standard practice, but they aren't always legally binding. In general, the dealership is responsible for taking reasonable precautions to prevent theft and damage, whether the customer signs a waiver or not. So if they aren't binding, why do they use them? Because many people don't know they're not binding, think they have no recourse because they signed the waiver, and eat the loss themselves.

 

Well let's see, the dealer locked the doors...so what else do they need to do to take "reasonable precautions"? Build a 20 foot barb wire'd wall?

 

Are you kidding me? An inside job, you have about has much chance of proving that as beating MJ 1:1 in basketball during his prime. Good thieves or car thieves know exactly where to go for easy access and how to make quick work of a dash or other key piece to get in and out as quickly as possible, although there are more then a few smash and grabbers.

The dealership is not responsible... as someone said, the dealership should make a reasonable effort to secure and protect your car. Well what is reasonable? On the same lot in the same conditions they keep 100's of other cars? Seems pretty reasonable to me if it they treat their own cars like that and leave them sitting on the lot.

If you parked your car at Walmart for a few days and it got broke into it, is it Walmart's fault that your car got broken into?

Ok, here's the reality of the situation - IF the dealer wanted to fight and argue it and take it to court with Lawyers, yada yada, the dealership would win. HOWEVER, the reality of it is if you press hard enough they don't want bad press. Personally, if I were you I'd file a claim with your insurance, insurance companies NEVER want to pay with their own money. If they have someone else's insurance company they can go after for reimbursement, they will. You get the money and the insurance company uses it expertise and power to go after the dealerships insurance company.

 

And then they jack up your premium anyways LOL....sorry, had to throw that in there.

 

i say you sue him...you left your car under the shops care...so their responsible for anything that happens to it

 

if it was a good theif, he would have took more