What's the biggest load of crap a garage has ever told you?
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Just spent ages going to a garage to view and hopefully pick up a 'mint', 'best one out there', 'ready to drive away' M3 with 'only 62,000' on the clock and found a dog with ripped leather and 65,500...
Do these jokers just think you won't notice??
What's the worse you've heard? Shall we name and shame.
Do these jokers just think you won't notice??
What's the worse you've heard? Shall we name and shame.
Had one guy quote me a 0-60 time of 8 seconds on a Mk5 Zetec S
had another tell me a golf V5 had all the options, pretty much only thing it dis have was electric windows and cd player, cloth seats, no heated windows, no cruise control sat nav or anything , bit of a joke really lol.
One guy also suggested saxos have a bad press and they aren't all that bad in a crash lol
had another tell me a golf V5 had all the options, pretty much only thing it dis have was electric windows and cd player, cloth seats, no heated windows, no cruise control sat nav or anything , bit of a joke really lol.
One guy also suggested saxos have a bad press and they aren't all that bad in a crash lol
Even if he was talking about the whine he's still wide of the mark...Many, many years ago the (first) wife and I needed a car. Any car. Cheap as poss.
We went to a local Arthur Daley and ended up looking at, of all things, a Proton (it was cheap, OK?)
Salesman gave us the "low mileage, one careful owner" spiel.
I had a bit of a look round the car and noticed:
The screw holes in the back bumper (where the taxi licence plate had been).
The screw holes in the dash (where the holder for the radio handset had been).
The shiny pedal-rubbers.
The fact that the digits on the odometer didn't quite line up.
Me: "This 'one careful owner'?"
Salesman: "Yeah?"
Me: "It wasn't Oz Cabs, was it?"
Salesman: "What?"
Me: "We'll go away and think about it."
We went to a local Arthur Daley and ended up looking at, of all things, a Proton (it was cheap, OK?)
Salesman gave us the "low mileage, one careful owner" spiel.
I had a bit of a look round the car and noticed:
The screw holes in the back bumper (where the taxi licence plate had been).
The screw holes in the dash (where the holder for the radio handset had been).
The shiny pedal-rubbers.
The fact that the digits on the odometer didn't quite line up.
Me: "This 'one careful owner'?"
Salesman: "Yeah?"
Me: "It wasn't Oz Cabs, was it?"
Salesman: "What?"
Me: "We'll go away and think about it."
Service manager at a branch of Henly's insisted, with contempt in his voice, that my one year old (1980) Leyland Princess had an automatic transmission made by Automotive Products. It was, of course, Borg Warner. What chance he would know how to remedy its problems if he didn't even know which company made it?
I bought an E30 325Ise from a local BMW 'specialist' on behalf of a customer a few years ago. Anyway, it was due for an mot so she took it back to the guy (who obviously forgot who she was) for the mot and he said that the car was a piece of crap and wasn't safe to be on the road. He also ' replaced the window regulator as it was shot' (it was a faulty switch) and told her the head had to come off to replace the exhaust manifold gasket.
She naturally was gutted and looked to me (also being a BMW specialist)as the responsible party for buying a rubbish car. I went back to the guy and asked him why then had he sold us the car a few months previously for well over book? He realised who I was and started to try to talk his way out of it. I took the car to another MOT station where it flew through and I replaced the window switch. I actually bought the car from my customer a year later and it's still a very nice car today. The guy is a known con man.
She naturally was gutted and looked to me (also being a BMW specialist)as the responsible party for buying a rubbish car. I went back to the guy and asked him why then had he sold us the car a few months previously for well over book? He realised who I was and started to try to talk his way out of it. I took the car to another MOT station where it flew through and I replaced the window switch. I actually bought the car from my customer a year later and it's still a very nice car today. The guy is a known con man.
motco said:
Service manager at a branch of Henly's insisted, with contempt in his voice, that my one year old (1980) Leyland Princess had an automatic transmission made by Automotive Products. It was, of course, Borg Warner. What chance he would know how to remedy its problems if he didn't even know which company made it?
My guess would be he got confused with the automatic box fitted to the Mini, which was indeed made by AP This is the dealer who told me all that crap ********************
The guy who came out on the test drive even asked me to depress the clutch on an smg to start the motor, would do but the car doesn't have one. He also said that the rear parking sensors were activated by the button that actually changes the gear change response. One word - Numpties.
The guy who came out on the test drive even asked me to depress the clutch on an smg to start the motor, would do but the car doesn't have one. He also said that the rear parking sensors were activated by the button that actually changes the gear change response. One word - Numpties.
crap or not, we have rules here
Edited by PetrolTed on Saturday 20th February 09:51
tried to tell me that because the computer in my S4 said that it didn't need a service that they 'physically can't change the oil and plugs'.Smirnoffmark said:
The guy who came out on the test drive even asked me to depress the clutch on an smg to start the motor, would do but the car doesn't have one. He also said that the rear parking sensors were activated by the button that actually changes the gear change response. One word - Numpties.
not allowed to name and shame... naughty naughty. 
Motorcycle dealers have told me loads of random crap before. A certain motorcycle dealer on a bridge near me once sold a mate of mine a 'fully serviced' CBR250 with no teeth on the front sprocket...
Edited by MarJay on Friday 19th February 19:49
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