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Thanks to everyone for the past few weeks as I've been out test driving Santa Cruz's and asking questions on the boards. Took delivery of my Black SEL Premium yesterday. I live in Northern Virginia where every dealer was peddling $3-5k markups on them. Found a dealer in southern Maryland that had this one just come in and willing to sell it at MSRP + the "mandatory" Maryland processing fee of $500 (at least it's cheaper than Virginia's $799-$899). If I'm allowed to post the name of the dealership and salesman, I'll post it in a reply later on.
Anyway, here are a few pics. There are a few small issues that will need to be taken care of:
1. A very small dent in the passenger door pillar that is barely noticeable but they said they will definitely fix it.
2. It pulls badly to the right. The dealer doesn't have the codes yet in their alignment system, but said they will contact Hyundai on Tuesday and as soon as they get the codes, they will do an alignment on it.
3. Slight vibrations in the tires. Again, they said no problem and will check the balance of all four tires when they do the alignment.
4. Driver's side door needs to be pulled hard to close. Looks like the strike plate needs to be adjusted.
5. The bodyside molding on the driver's side passenger door was pulled out, but we kicked it back in and it seems to be locked back in place. Dealer said if it comes loose again, they'll fix it.
It's quite a bit of small things for a new car, but nothing glaring like missing bolts or mis-aligned panels, etc. We went through it with a fine tooth comb to check for those kind of things. Best of all, the dealer said that they'll come pick up the SC and bring it to the dealership, fix everything, and then deliver back to me. Now how's that for service??!!
I'm sure there will be more suprises to come, but loving it so far!! Here's some pics. Can't wait to get to know my SC more!
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Anyway, here are a few pics. There are a few small issues that will need to be taken care of:
1. A very small dent in the passenger door pillar that is barely noticeable but they said they will definitely fix it.
2. It pulls badly to the right. The dealer doesn't have the codes yet in their alignment system, but said they will contact Hyundai on Tuesday and as soon as they get the codes, they will do an alignment on it.
3. Slight vibrations in the tires. Again, they said no problem and will check the balance of all four tires when they do the alignment.
4. Driver's side door needs to be pulled hard to close. Looks like the strike plate needs to be adjusted.
5. The bodyside molding on the driver's side passenger door was pulled out, but we kicked it back in and it seems to be locked back in place. Dealer said if it comes loose again, they'll fix it.
It's quite a bit of small things for a new car, but nothing glaring like missing bolts or mis-aligned panels, etc. We went through it with a fine tooth comb to check for those kind of things. Best of all, the dealer said that they'll come pick up the SC and bring it to the dealership, fix everything, and then deliver back to me. Now how's that for service??!!
I'm sure there will be more suprises to come, but loving it so far!! Here's some pics. Can't wait to get to know my SC more!
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