Columbo Style

Oh yeah.... one more thing, sorry to bother ya....why did you kill your wife?... Just curious, don't mean to be a pest...oh sorry....I digress....

What happened is this:

Saturday morning I got to test drive my car. They've decided to try and figure out the shake rather than just giving me 4 new tires. Which is good because I was very skeptical when they agreed to change the tires just because I said I went somewhere else and they said it was the tires.
So they took the tires and wheels from another Baja they had (I think it was actually already sold to someone too) and put them on my car.

I go for a drive.

Not a mile down I84 and I feel this same vibration. Certainly much more notational than on Friday when I was with the GM. I get off the next exit and was going to go back. I thought, nah, lets go some more down the other way. So 2 more exits into Coventry. Still had it. So back I went.

Ok, so... different tires and wheels... same vibration?
Is there something else wrong?
Am I a nutter? (no comments!)
Was the tire place wrong?
IS this just what Subarus feel like?

At this point, I don't know. I check with them this morning and they assure me that there's nothing else mechanically wrong with it. Of course they put it on the lot with warped rotors and it took them 3 tries to to find. They were so warped that they needed replacing. So I have to take their assurance with several grains of salt.

They still have my car as they are waiting for a part to fix the raising temperature issue from Friday. I expect a call from the GM today at some point.

So let's say I'm a nutter, everyone else does, so it wouldn't be the first time. And lets say that this is normal for a Subaru. There was still a big vibration when I bought it and confirmed that it was due to warped rotors. If I got to drive it without warped rotors and it had this vibration, I would most likely not have bought the car or still said it vibrated and wanted it fixed as a condition of purchase.

So where does this leave us? I don't know. I'm still going to dump the car as I still don't really trust their service- if for no other reason than the tailgate latch issue.

But we shall see..... maybe I'll get a vintage Peugeot....