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Update: Sherwin-Williams Customer Service Is Color Blind, Now My Car Looks Crazy

Superstar intern Dyan got hold of the manager of Dale's Paints and asked when they planned on getting Fred's car repainted. More »

12:03 PM on Mon Jan 22 2007
By Ben Popken
294 views, 6 comments

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Sherwin-Williams Customer Service Is Color Blind, Now My Car Looks Crazy

A Sherwin-Willams' store incompetence totally messed up Fred's car. Look at that hood front quarter and nose fascia.. More »

11:06 PM on Wed Jan 17 2007
By Ben Popken
2,164 views, 23 comments

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Ghetto Paint Your Car

Unbelievably, this Camaro was painted not by Maaco, but by $50 worth of house paint, a coat of Rustoleum and a cheap roller. We hesitate actually recommending taking a bucket of red house paint to your new Porsche, but then again, if you can afford a Porsche, you probably wouldn't be tempted to. More »

7:47 AM on Tue Oct 24 2006
By consumerist.com
4,352 views, 14 comments

Latest by AcidReign: .....My grandfather had a 1960s Corvair. (Not sure which year.) The frame on it rusted out, and snapped in two more »

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Buying a Car and Getting Away With It

Inspired by our post "HOW TO: Buy A Car Without Putting A Shotgun In Your Mouth," M. writes in a story about navigating the tricky world of car financing. More »

2:19 PM on Wed May 3 2006
By popkin
423 views, 8 comments

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The Greatest Car Salesman You've Never Heard Of

Not sure what in the heyhoo is going on here but this appears to be 1970s gag reel ad attacking car dealer Ralph Williams for "raping San Francisco out of every dollar." Funny! NSFW, for adult language and situation insinuations. More »

2:58 AM on Sun Mar 26 2006
By popkin
388 views, 3 comments

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Best Buy Screws Up Sirius Installs


A comedy of errors of a Sirius Best Buy install, probably installed by the above aryan guidos: More »

3:22 PM on Thu Jan 5 2006
By consumerist.com
393 views, 1 comment

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The Case of the Slightly Different Silver BMW Wheel

As far as the finished product is concerned, The Consumerist is a big fan of BMWs. Sure, there are the occasional hare-brained mistakes like iDrive, but even those missteps seem to be born of an attempt to improve the driving experience. Plus their cars go really fast around corners, our favorite variety of road. More »

12:32 PM on Thu Dec 8 2005
By consumerist.com
326 views, 5 comments

Latest by gezick: actually, it only used the (current) m3 engine the last two years of its production run. ;-) the key with more »