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Originally Posted by Hummer Guy
The dealer may try to claim ignorance on it, but who sponsored it? Who advertised it? And who's customer list was it? It?s a joke if they try to pass the blame -- at the end of the day, they're paying the off-road park or organization and its up to them to make the call of whether to take obstacles or not. Also, even with a waiver, you were under the impression you were being guided by professionals, and if they were negligent, it doesn't matter what you signed. With that said, dealers have it tough...there seems to be very little room between "we should have had more extreme off-road" and "There was no serious off-roading..this was a joke"...its a tough line to balance. It?s been my experience that you can tell any driver to go slow, but everyone wants to crawl up the rocky road faster than anyone else, and have the higher mud splash when going through a puddle. Whoever has the muddiest truck at the end of the day wins ? you?ve all seen this happen? J A responsible dealer would tell you before a certain area that it is for more experienced drivers if damage is likely to occur, or suggest that ?you?ll make it through this puddle?but any damage won?t be under warranty??you?d get one or two folks to go through but most don?t like to knowingly take such risks that may tear up their rigs...most of the time I would say the majority of damage that happens at Hummer Happenings is driver error or inexperience?this is one that sounds like dealer/organizer/off-road-park error ? at the end of the day, the dealer needs to do the right thing ? especially if it was 5 trucks?wow.
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HUMMER events are sponcered by the customers.. every single person who buys a HUMMER.. a portion of the sales $ goes to a LMG (local maketing group) the LMG hires event planers,, Rworks, they intern hire a company to run the event,, O'Brians, they go out and test the area and determine what is safe and what is not in case like this one. 9 times out of 10 they run a pre exsiting track built jus for HUMMER's so there job is pretty easy. HUMMER dealers have no say in this process. It is Mandated as a condition of francise ownership that dealers provide there customers the oprotunity to attend these events they do this by giving the event co. names and #'s of their customers. "at the end of the day" the dealer looks like a hero if the cusomers had fun or a zero if they did not