They tried to pull the same crap with me at my local Costco tire center. I was replacing a set of summer run flats with non-run flats and the technician is trying to pull the “I can’t let you leave here without a spare tire” bullshit - after already putting the new tires on my car. I looked at him like he was fucking…

The solution is to drive a shit-heap. Then you can *gently* move them out of the way whilst agreeing with them. “No no, wouldn’t want you to go to any trouble moving that car, let me move it for you.”

Very nearly all gun owners wouldn’t do anything like this. But they are taking a chance on not running into the one psycho who would. It probably helps that most murderous psychos avoid buying cars from a dealer, since it comes with a lot more documentation.

They have great forward visibility, except for when there’s ten more of them in front of you. 

I think I’d show up the next morning before the dealer opened and park across the entire entrance.

I had a dealer try the hide-the-keys trick. I made it a point to park with line of sight to where the sales person was, so I could see exactly where my keys were at all times. Before giving them the keys, I made it very clear that I wanted my keys back as soon as they were done checking the VIN and the miles. I…

These late 80s/early 90s Pontiac wheels have always done it for me for some reason, I really like how the deep dish ones look on other cars

The Integrale wheels in white are so special. There need to be more white wheels.

I went I went in with the opposite situation. “I am ready to buy today if you can hit this price.”

This happened to my wife & I at a local Ford store 5-6 yrs ago. Long story but we started off w/a full disclosure to the sales guy “we’re not here to buy today, period. we’re here to comparison shop between the escape, rav4 and cx-5, we have no trade in, again we are not going to buy today.” This, by the way, worked…

You have to be in a city where the police will show up to help of course. In big cities good luck not getting laughed at for making that call. 

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That’s how I feel about the crossover boom when the salesman keeps pointing a gun at you to buy a crossover suv instead of a sedan.

The Miura’s Campagnolos.

Hide the keys is old school dealership bullshit.

If the Sonnet isn’t your thing you could go more modern:

E34 M5 units always had a special place in my heart. The uninitiated might look and think “hubcaps?”, but there’s much, much more to it.

*SAAB has entered the chat*

It’s hard to think of another OEM that only uses one wheel design. Alpina has changed many things over the years, but they settled on the correct wheel design early, and stuck with it.

These on Porsche 944: