In a recent post, Auto Dealers and their Research, I chastised businesses that try to sway customer surveys in order to look good, without trying to learn anything from the research.

Well, to be fair, I want to offer some praise for something they recently got right.I recently made several trips to my auto dealer to fix a minor problem under warranty.Four trips into the process it still hadn’t been fixed and on each trip, their “repairs” were causing more damage.I got a survey, filled it out online with my experience and provided my contact information.Less than two days later, I received a phone call from the service manager apologizing and offering to personally take care of it himself.

It is great to see a company actually have the systems in place to route surveys both correctly and quickly.The only problem?At the end of the final visit, they said that I would be getting another survey and asked if I would please give them passing scores.Oh well, it’s a start.