{"id":222,"date":"2011-03-10T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2011-03-10T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:57:47","slug":"chrysler-recall-postcard-in-the-mail-just-a-ploy-to-get-people-into-the-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Chrysler recall postcard in the mail- just a ploy to get people into the shop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Question by Crystal Sunshine<\/i>: Chrysler recall postcard in the mail- just a ploy to get people into the shop?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I received in the mail a postcard about my car having a product recall and the name of a local Chrysler shop to get the item replaced free of charge. Is this some ploy to get people into the garage so they can find other &#8220;problems&#8221; with the car or is this legit?<br \/>\nHmm, true but the last thing people want to hear is a bunch of other problems with the car and it seems every time there&#8217;s a list of issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by Vipassana<\/i><br \/>And how would that ploy work?<\/p>\n<p>They can&#8217;t force you to do anything with your car.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not like they&#8217;re getting money out of you.<\/p>\n<p>And if they find things, and you decide to ignore it, and it causes problems later&#8230;.then they can just say &#8220;told you so&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Edit: That&#8217;s funny, because when I take my cars in for repairs, I don&#8217;t get a list of issues. Because I take care of my car, and make sure there&#8217;s nothing that it could need.<\/p>\n<p>What you can always do is take the car to a second mechanic, and if they give you the same list of things&#8230;..they&#8217;re not trying to get money out of you, they&#8217;re trying to get you to maintain your vehicle better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question by Crystal Sunshine: Chrysler recall postcard in the mail- just a ploy to get people into the shop? I received in the mail a postcard about my car having a product recall and the name of a local Chrysler shop to get the item replaced free of charge. Is this some ploy to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[714,474,293,716,97,717,715,29,718],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-chrysler","tag-into","tag-just","tag-mail","tag-people","tag-ploy","tag-postcard","tag-recall","tag-shop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}