My new rear has NO whine at all. Quiet as can be. (knock on wood)
Incidentally, my dealer is tops. Red carpet treatment. Can't say enough good things about them. Guess it helps being a repeat customer too.
Your credit rating may dictate how well you are treated. Example: While shopping for a car for my youngest son, I came across a new 06 Cobalt. Negotiated a real good deal with a dealer. The offer at this dealership gave the best deal after shopping at about 6 different Chevy dealers. This dealer is also a Pontiac dealer that did not come close to giving me an acceptable offer when I was shopping for my GTO (no credit check was done at that time)... Anyway.....I co-signed a loan for my son..... Upon doing a credit check and discovering my credit rating cannot be higher, the red carpet rolled out. Not that we were treated bad before that because we were treated fine, but after a credit check was done, I was approached and told anything we want, it's ours. We got much more attention after the credit check than before the credit check.
I believe all potential customers should be treated with the utmost... but they are not and the reality is, and in this example, it indicates.... if the dealer investigates who they are dealing with, their attitude towards that customer becomes more sensitive and they are more inclined to go the extra mile towards that customer than that of one who has poor or moderate credit.
My son wanted an orange Cobalt. None were in the area. After a deal was struck, the dealer found one 85 miles away went and got it and drove it back, to make the sale. Before the deal was struck, when I inquired of the availability of the color, I was told the dealership only dealt with a certain few other dealerships when doing dealer trades..No orange ones were in the trade area, and my son was settling for choice # 2 .... Needless to say, they went the extra mile for a 14K car and got him what he wanted. That would not have happened otherwise.