oldbmwfan
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I think you illustrate the issue perfectly. "Someone is taken aback that the new owner is having buyer's remorse and expecting the dealership and previous owner to fix something."Not quite sure how you arrived at "insecurity" when someone is taken aback that the new owner of his truck is having buyer's remorse and is expecting the dealership & previous owner to step forward to fix something he should've realized before purchase. You get what you deserve if you don't take a used vehicle on a comprehensive test drive. Does the location of the dealership really matter here? A test drive needs to include a few highway miles, so you do what you have to do to make it happen. If it's a 20 miles trek to the interstate, get on the road. Sounds like laziness and impulse purchasing got the better of someone. This doesn't make the OP insecure...it makes his truck's new owner a dipshit.
Do you see the problem? You have two really critical assertions embedded in that statement and you don't know that either one are true.
1) "Buyer's remorse"- someone deciding they want to change exhaust /= buyer's remorse. He might totally love the truck but just want it a bit quieter. He might have bought that particular truck because the color and overall condition, and thought maybe he could live with the exhaust, but then decided he likes the truck enough to keep it but can't deal with the exhaust. You are assuming to know what the buyer is thinking, but you don't know anything at all except that he wants a stock exhaust
2) "Expecting" something to happen ... you don't know that, either. Asking isn't expecting. "Hey, I want a stock exhaust and the PO took his off; maybe I can save some money." Maybe he's super entitled and fully expected something for free. Maybe the dealer suggested asking to try to save the customer a few bucks. You are making an assumption; we don't know.
This is a textbook example of assuming the worst in the absence of information. The only info we have about the buyer is that he a) wants to keep the truck (you don't change the exhaust on a vehicle you're about to dump), and b) wants a quieter exhaust. Everything else said about him is an uninformed guess.
Also, as for you, you seem both overly sensitive and totally ignorant of the fact that there are places in this country where a 20-mile journey to an open highway can take 2 hours, and not all dealers will let you do that with a $60K truck. But it's a typical small-minded thing to assume that what you know is what is true for everyone.
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