Toyota Dealers Give 'Recall Manicures'
Get a manicure to match your car while you wait for a Toyota recall repair. Photo: Getty Images
As dealerships around the country run damage control with the massive 4.6 million car recall – with 437,000 Prius hybrid cars added just this morning for brake issues – Toyota has given them between $7,500 and $75,000 to help assuage cranky clients while they deal with all of the repairs, reports The New York Post today.
And the managers at Atlantic Toyota in Amityville, LI are getting creative, offering perks like relaxing free mani's for frazzled car owners while they wait for their Toyotas to get fixed.
"They said to me, 'You can get a manicure," said Roseanne Letizia. "It is the first time I ever got a manicure at a car dealership."
The hired professional manicurist at hand – Margaret Volence – worked on six different clients in the dealership's waiting room yesterday, while their Toyotas were completely checked out for defects. Not only did the ladies take advantage of this fun benefit; Volence pampered three men with mani's too.
And the perks you can expect to see from Toyota dealerships cross country who are trying to keep customers from hopping to other automakers don't just stop at manicures.
"We're giving out free movie passes, and we drive them to the movies while their car is being worked on. We are trying to calm them down a little," said one employee at Atlantic Toyota.
But if you're a Toyota owner whose car is on the recall list, you better book an appointment ASAP. Despite being open for longer hours that in many places reach until midnight, dealerships like Star Toyota in Bayside, Queens are already booked solid for repairs for the next four to five weeks.
"We've done everything we can to get them back in their cars and driving safe," said Franz Casimir, a Toyota Parts and Service Director.
And clearly, Toyota dealers know – nothing makes you feel brand new again like a fresh, sparkling manicure.
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tlstewart19, 2-11-2010, 8:28AM
My Toyota dealer has been giving manicures on Wednesdays for a very long time. Way before the recall issues. I heard a dealer in VA Beach has a movie theater.
Midbluehungry: Get over yourself. Toyotas are hardly garbage! And everything is toxic - deodorant, aeresol cans, plastic bottles, etc...
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