Would a dealer get uppity?
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I've recently had a sour experience buying a bit of a duffer on eBay (privately) and next time have resolved to do a better job thoroughly checking any car I buy.
If I go and visit a dealer with my bluetooth ODB2 reader in hand expecting to scan the car for faults how is that going to go down? Anyone else done this?
If I go and visit a dealer with my bluetooth ODB2 reader in hand expecting to scan the car for faults how is that going to go down? Anyone else done this?
Howard- said:
A fault of any significance will show up as an engine management warning light on the dashboard, so I don't see the point? The dealer probably won't care, but you might look a bit silly.
Well any significance in terms of the car's operation, I'll give you, but fixing any of the rest of the complex electronic systems in modern cars would be distinctly not cheap.Zwolf said:
Like a s
t sandwich in the vast majority of situations as it's saying right from the off:
"I don't trust you, the quality of the vehicles you sell, the workmanship of your technicians, your equipment, have no faith in your aftercare or the manufacturer you represent, I'm only here because you might just have a suitable car at an agreeable price, bit I know better than you if it's one worth buying".
The logical response to which is: "That's your prerogative to have no faith in me as a dealer or in the quality of my stock. Please exercise it elsewhere".
Well yeah, and for good reason. I go to car dealers expecting they are trying to get one over on me and most punters and all the threads where dealers have been involved on PH have done nothing to change my mind on that.t sandwich in the vast majority of situations as it's saying right from the off: "I don't trust you, the quality of the vehicles you sell, the workmanship of your technicians, your equipment, have no faith in your aftercare or the manufacturer you represent, I'm only here because you might just have a suitable car at an agreeable price, bit I know better than you if it's one worth buying".
The logical response to which is: "That's your prerogative to have no faith in me as a dealer or in the quality of my stock. Please exercise it elsewhere".
If it was 2 year old approved used Lexus I can see your point, but buying average age stock on modern cars, which are hugely complex is a minefield.
Well quite the thread here, obviously touched a nerve.
Of course I didn't mean all car dealers are crooks or anything like that, but I go in with low expectations, and am happy when I am proved wrong.
Anyway, this is bound to become more and more prevalent. My own experience in the last 3 months has been £500 down the drain fixing the faults a reader would have shown.
Of course I didn't mean all car dealers are crooks or anything like that, but I go in with low expectations, and am happy when I am proved wrong.
Anyway, this is bound to become more and more prevalent. My own experience in the last 3 months has been £500 down the drain fixing the faults a reader would have shown.
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