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Foghorn Leghorn · Post by **Foghorn Leghorn** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:28 pm

I'm sure it probably does tbh. Another very good reason to do your own servicing, not only are they incompetent they're dishonest too

Fog

Disclaimer: I'm sure they're not all like this, just the ones I seem to meet...

Post by **Welly** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 4:40 pm

*waits for James to come along defending all the Mechanics/Technicians in the UK*

Foghorn Leghorn · Post by **Foghorn Leghorn** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:22 pm

Welton wrote:*waits for James to come along defending all the Mechanics/Technicians in the UK*

Lol, thats why I put my disclaimer in

Fog

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:39 pm

Welton wrote: Imagine, say, a main dealer was servicing your car and a rather disgruntled mechanic decided NOT to fit your oil filter, the pollen and the air filter. These items have left their stock, and have been paid for by you. The mechanic could, say, take said items home and sell them, say, on ebay.

This would be disgracefull behavior of course and this example is purely for illustraion purposes as I'm sure this can't really happen in real life, can it?

ive never done that before, honest

well actually i dont usually sell it, it just ends up at work, or in my bedroom

and if im honest this will happen far more often than you think

jameslxdt · Post by **jameslxdt** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:42 pm

Foghorn Leghorn wrote:I'm sure it probably does tbh. Another very good reason to do your own servicing, not only are they incompetent they're dishonest too

Fog

Disclaimer: I'm sure they're not all like this, just the ones I seem to meet...

we aint all that bad
i can understand the issues people have with some mechanics but its bugs me when you get the wankers that think were all the same

Foghorn Leghorn · Post by **Foghorn Leghorn** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:52 pm

I know you arent all the same, theres a local indie I trust to do anything I wont undertake (only because I don't have a drive/garage to work on/in). I've also got a couple of mates who are mechs, ones a master tech for Mazda and the other is at a renault dealership elesmere port way. Its the bullshit you get fed from the dealers that have put me off over the years, that and the horror stories from my mates.

Plus i'm a tightwad..

Fog

mbell666 · Post by **mbell666** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:24 pm

Dealers are really bad, especially with business customers!

Taxi company i work for ran a fleet of octavia's (~10) and they would go in for work and come back with out it having been done. One even went in for a new DMF flywheel which they forgot to do. Killed the bottom end of the engine, which the dealer had to replace just after the warranty had run out.

One had hole punched through sump of a car by a racket a mechanic had left in the engine bay. The dealer MD wasn't so happy when it was returned to him in the middle of very important meeting!

"Was whats this?"

"Its your mechanics (oily) racket and the sump it punch hole through."

If I was looking after the fleet I would be inspecting the cars and checking they had done every thing before I took them away. I'd make sure they knew who I was and if they didn't do something I would notice and I would kick up a fuss.

Foghorn Leghorn · Post by **Foghorn Leghorn** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:34 pm

mbell666 wrote:Dealers are really bad, especially with business customers!

That reaaaallllyyy makes me mad!! I've had this happen a few times (used to have a company car) really pisses me off, tyre fitting places do it to.

Vauxhalls 2 tier pricing is f*cking criminal too.

Now look you've made me angry and I swore, you wont like me when I'm angry

Fog

Post by **Welly** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:52 pm

Makes you wonder doesn't it? You are a typical brand new car owner i.e. hasn't got a clue/doesn't care and you get fobbed off with stuff not getting done etc. then later, the car starts playing up long after the warrenty's gone and we poor second-handers get left picking up the pieces.

I wondered recently about the new extended 20,000 miles oil service intervals on new cars (m, you can turn to another thread now) and I concluded that NO ONE CARES!!! if the car in knackered when it gets to 70,000 miles then so what? who's going to help?

I think owners should get with it and insist on evidence of works done and also I think all cars should have ALL thier filters and fluids changed every 12 months regardless (this should include auto and manual gearboxes/differentials).

I remember particularly that Volvo dealers in 1993-ish used to put your old brake pads/filters in a clear plastic sack on the passenger footwell to show you what they had replaced on your car during a service, good idea really, and honest.