u/CaterpillarDue5096

What is the recourse if any?

A few months back, took my car in to swap the winter tires, but I noticed a loose feeling when driving. Front desk said it's probably the alignment / balancing issue which they will do when doing the swap.

I take the car back, still notice a looseness and creaking noise when reversing and when reversing over small bumps like over a driveway. It gets worse each day I go back and say the creaky noise is still there.

They take it in, tech calls says it's a belt issue with the tires and that they recommend changing all 4 tires (the same tires that presumably were fine when they swapped back in 2 months ago?) and also car need a brake tune up - OK, invoice is over $2,000.

I get in the car, still creaky noises, I drove home because didn't have the time to return it etc. I chat gpt the issue, chatgpt says it's probably struts or sway bars etc.

I am going to another, non-dealer mechanic tmrw to tell me that I'm not hearing things and to diagnose the problem.

What would you do in my situation, aside from never go back to this dealership?

Lets assume those making over 1.5M in total compensation, what would they say about how much they are paid, do they see themselves as being 10x or 20x more valuable than their lowest paid employee etc or just that they are not bad people it's just the way the system is set up?

Have a 5 year old fridge that was new, we put used it as our spare in garage. Compressor is busted according to the tech which would cost close to the amount of a new fridge.

What should I do? Do I have to call the city for special pick up? Could I drive it to scrap yard or find a person online that would perhaps for spare parts?

Assume you have a rich, now dead, aunt, if you're left with 1M, assume on January 1st, what would you do to make that money grow / last the longest?

Would you be able to immediately put it in a savings or growth account, bond? For one year, not pay the taxes until April the following year etc. Would that make sense and is legal?

Or other scenario

You put it all of it in a dividend producing stock, again keep it there until April, could you buy insurance against it going down below 1m? Would that cost too much?

Thanks,