The good news and the bad news (long, sorry)

[DOUBLDz@aol.com]

Its always so complicated.

I had found an independent place locally (Central Jersey) that works on 
foreign cars, primarily German cars, and they themselves are into Porsche 
racing. It appears that just about every employee drives a Porsche. I thought 
that was a pretty good sign, so I had them do an in-between oil change and it 
ended up a lot cheaper than Audi service. That's why I brought Baby to them 
for the 60K maintenance. They are roughly a third lower in price, and for 
that they treat me like a princess instead of a dumb blonde (I won't mention 
who does that).

Anyway, while it was in for the 60K I decided to have them paint the 
passenger side door. There was a place where the paint had been rubbed off on 
the opening edge of the door as well as on the molding. The former owner had 
tried to fix it but mostly made it worse. They body shop had come highly 
recommended and they were very confident that they could match Baby's lovely 
pearl paint....so I went for it. They had her from Tuesday evening until late 
Friday afternoon. (I really missed her!)

As far as I can tell, the servicing went without a hitch and the paint job, 
in one word superb! A truly amazing job. However, they had to take the door 
apart to do the painting and something went wrong when it went back together. 
For some reason I cannot program the passenger side mirror to my key. So 
every time I unlock the car, the mirror goes back to this crazy position 
facing the sky. I tried reprograming the position with the key but it just 
won't take. I brought it back the next day and would you believe they 
couldn't *make* that happen again. So I go home. Needless to say, I have no 
trouble making that happen again in my driveway, at the cleaners, at work at 
the bagel place. So, I call and they say bring it in again. I do and guess 
what....I stand there for 15 minutes with the guy locking and unlocking my 
car and I CAN'T MAKE THE MIRROR MOVE! I go home again totally embarrassed and 
PO'd.

But AHA!! I think I know what's happening. The car has to sit for a while as 
it typically does in the course of the day and them it happens. I'll be 
calling them up again tomorrow. In the meantime, does anyone have anymore 
insights on the whys and wherefores of this situation?

Dee
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