Greetings all. I’m new to the forum. I picked up our new 2006 Black Cherry Pearl xb automatic yesterday!! Only options ordered were fog lights and new Pioneer deck with iPod.

When we couldn't find what we wanted we ordered a new 2005 on June 30th from a local dealer. Fleet guy told me 4 weeeks delivery time.

After 4 weeks I was sick of dealing with this guy. Couldn't get him to return my calls so the only way to contact him was for mew to call him or go to the dealership in person. Finally at the end of week 5 he told me it was in with a couple of changes: it was a 2006 (no problem) but it had an armrest ( problem).

I went over to look at it after the dealership closed and found out it did not have the fog lights or stereo. But it did have door sill enhancents, interior illumination kit, and the armrest. Man I was ____ed!! Contacted the fleet guy and he said he hadn't had a chance to look at it but was very sorry it wasn't equipped as wanted. He also said there was nothing he could do but order me another one!!!!

I got really ____ed then. Got a hold of the dealer’s customer service manager and sales manager and explained my problem to them. Ended up getting the options I wanted installed and they gave me the sill enhancements, illumination kit and armrest for free!

I’ve already bought a few things of ebay to install and have picked out the new wheels. Changes with pictures will follow

congrats on the new ride and especially the FREEBIES !!!!!!

Congrats and sounds like your dealership stepped up for the mistakes, bravo!!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Sweet! and gratz on the freebies! I just got my 06 on Saturday and I didnt get squat for free, im sad now!

Hhaha man you just cant go wrong with freebies. Lucky you.

Congrats on your new car :clap:

Free is always good. Make them squeal for it!

When I test drove my xB they told me all I would have to do is call XM and get the service started. NOT

They didnt even have the tuner installed. They told me that they would give it to me at dealer cost. Yeah whatever.
I should have pitched a bigger fit and maybe I could have had my XM.........

Looking forward to your pics!!

Psh, I wish my dealer had been that cool.

Thanks for the welcome to the forum. Due to the "pure pricing" on the Scion cars and parts I was very surprised when the dealership was so generous. But then I again I wasn't about to say no!! The only thing I don't care for are the blue underdash and cupholder lights ( yea I know...gripe gripe gripe) so I'm going to see about changing them later to amber or some other color. I ordered a color matching spoiler, bazooka sub, exhaust tip, and a cargo cover today off of ebay so I'm looking forward to adding them on. Next: gold wheels!!

Thanks for the welcome to the forum. Due to the "pure pricing" on the Scion cars and parts I was very surprised when the dealership was so generous. But then I again I wasn't about to say no!! The only thing I don't care for are the blue underdash and cupholder lights ( yea I know...gripe gripe gripe) so I'm going to see about changing them later to amber or some other color. I ordered a color matching spoiler, bazooka sub, exhaust tip, and a cargo cover today off of ebay so I'm looking forward to adding them on. Next: gold wheels!!

I thought the stock cup holder illumination allowed you to select between a variety of colors. All you'd have to do is change the lights under the dash to whatever you'd like, then you can select the matching cupholder light.

welcome and good job on getting some free stuff

As for the lights.... You have 4 settings:

1. Off
2. Both cup holder and under dash light on
3. Cup holder lights only on
4. Under dash lights only on

All the same color., in my case BLUE. There is an aftemarket kit I've seen on ebay whch offers 7 different colors though

congrats!

Congratulations, pretty rare to get any freebies out of a Scion dealer, you must have been really ____ed... good one!

Free stuf is always good. Especially if it comes from a Scion dealer!! Just posted some photos in the mebers gallery under my username[/img][/url][/code]