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What's the opinion on dealers and garages fitting a numberplates/numberplate frames or window stickers with their company details?
Am I the only one who notices that and would make sure all this crap is removed before I would take the car away?
Has anyone ever asked for reimbursement for advertising?
Am I the only one who notices that and would make sure all this crap is removed before I would take the car away?
Has anyone ever asked for reimbursement for advertising?
rottie102 said:
What's the opinion on dealers and garages fitting a numberplates/numberplate frames or window stickers with their company details?
Am I the only one who notices that and would make sure all this crap is removed before I would take the car away?
Has anyone ever asked for reimbursement for advertising?
Meh. You bought the car with the stickers on it, so you'd have a job trying to get reimbursement for something you agreed to Am I the only one who notices that and would make sure all this crap is removed before I would take the car away?
Has anyone ever asked for reimbursement for advertising?
I take them off, but because I don't like stickers and stuff on my car unless they mean something to me, not because I specifically don't want to advertise the garage.
When I buy a car from a dealer I tell them not to bother putting the stickers on as it won't make it out of the carpark like that 
Although when I bought an Impreza from the Netherlands the dealer stickers lasted as far as the fill-up in Dover.
Number plates don't really bother me though.
Although when I bought an Impreza from the Netherlands the dealer stickers lasted as far as the fill-up in Dover.
Number plates don't really bother me though.
What is worse are cheapskate dealers who won't go to the expense of making up new plates and instead place a yellow or white reflective sticker with their details on the plates over the original manufacturer/dealer.
On a similar note are main dealers who put a badge or transfer with their name on the tailgate - big no no for me.
On a similar note are main dealers who put a badge or transfer with their name on the tailgate - big no no for me.
PlayersNo6 said:
On a similar note are main dealers who put a badge or transfer with their name on the tailgate - big no no for me.
I bought a second-hand car with one of those on the tailgate once. When I removed the transfer the paint underneath was less faded than the surrounding paint, so you could still see the logo 
"When I removed the transfer the paint underneath was less faded than the surrounding paint, so you could still see the logo"
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Lastly - old model LR Freelanders and those rear spare wheel covers. Were they standard fit and supplied blank, so the main dealers could put huge adverts on them or did the dealers chuck them in for free?
Makes them look a bit like a courtesy car.
Gentle T Cut and wax?
Lastly - old model LR Freelanders and those rear spare wheel covers. Were they standard fit and supplied blank, so the main dealers could put huge adverts on them or did the dealers chuck them in for free?
Makes them look a bit like a courtesy car.
Truckosaurus said:
Number plates have to show the name and postcode of who ever made them, so if you don't want "Joe Bloggs Motors" on it then you'll have to have "Halfords" on similar on them.
Well, yeah - but the Halfords ones, for example, are only a very faint watermarking sort of thing that you wouldn't see unless hunting for it. And plenty of online ones don't have this, just the BS number in the corner.PlayersNo6 said:
What is worse are cheapskate dealers who won't go to the expense of making up new plates and instead place a yellow or white reflective sticker with their details on the plates over the original manufacturer/dealer.
On a similar note are main dealers who put a badge or transfer with their name on the tailgate - big no no for me.
This really sets the alarm bells ringing for me when I see this.If theyve skimped on a £15 set of number plates then it doesnt inspire confidence in how they have prep'd the rest of the car.On a similar note are main dealers who put a badge or transfer with their name on the tailgate - big no no for me.
Glosphil said:
I did suggest to an Audi dealer that the advertising sticker in the rear window of a new A4 1.8T that was not a standard fitment on the car and had been added by them would cost them £50/year, in advance, to rent the space. They removed it.
Wow, I bet they were impressed.And then reamed you royally on the deal for being clever.
rottie102 said:
What's the opinion on dealers and garages fitting a numberplates/numberplate frames or window stickers with their company details?
Am I the only one who notices that and would make sure all this crap is removed before I would take the car away?
Has anyone ever asked for reimbursement for advertising?
It depends, if it's the supplying dealer it can be quite useful. For example, lets say you have a BMW from Park Lane BMW, assuming the plates match the paperwork, that's good. Lets say front number plate no Park Lane logo, rear plate does have one, you know to look out for front accident damage.Am I the only one who notices that and would make sure all this crap is removed before I would take the car away?
Has anyone ever asked for reimbursement for advertising?
As for stickers, probably best to remove unless they mean something to you.
But I don't really have a problem with a garage trying it on. It's only good business to try to get their name out there, fair play to them! Also if they're selling sheds, or write offs, they wouldn't do it. If they're doing shoddy work it would similarly backfire on them, so it's not always a bad sign.
Many years ago while replacing a windscreen on a MB SL, the owner got ready to hand me my head because I didn't put his Stratstone of Mayfair sticker back in (he also wanted all his old Wentworth Golf Club passes put back in too - all eight expired ones).
There was me thinking I was doing him a favour by removing them and tidying the screen up.
Since then, I always ask, even it's a 'I Bought This from Arthur Daley'' type sticker.
There was me thinking I was doing him a favour by removing them and tidying the screen up.
Since then, I always ask, even it's a 'I Bought This from Arthur Daley'' type sticker.
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