What do you do if garage has been usin your car as runabout?
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What do you do if you discover that dealership has used your car as runabout?
i.e. its been in for a service, they call you to tell you its ready, you ask them to tell you the current exact mileage, and then you pick up car a week later and the mileage has increased?
I suppose the next question is, if it's acceptable, how much additional mileage is acceptable? 5 miles? 10 miles? 20 miles?
I should point out, the final stage of this scenario hasn't happened yet (i.e car not yet collected), however I've had a lot of problems with this dealership and I wouldn't be surprised if they had been using it to collect their bacon rolls of a morning.
i.e. its been in for a service, they call you to tell you its ready, you ask them to tell you the current exact mileage, and then you pick up car a week later and the mileage has increased?
I suppose the next question is, if it's acceptable, how much additional mileage is acceptable? 5 miles? 10 miles? 20 miles?
I should point out, the final stage of this scenario hasn't happened yet (i.e car not yet collected), however I've had a lot of problems with this dealership and I wouldn't be surprised if they had been using it to collect their bacon rolls of a morning.
My company car went in for it's first MOT last week at the Vx main dealer and came back with 52 miles on it. Not really bothered as i don't pay for the petrol but if it was my own car/petrol i wouldnt be best pleased.
Maybe the lads from the workshop used it for the Friday McDonalds run?
Maybe the lads from the workshop used it for the Friday McDonalds run?
If my cars in the garage for something like that i usually take a picture of the millage with my phone outside the garage first... but then the garage i use i trust them all, there good friends, and i generally wont mind if they took it out for a run... plus with MOT's anyway, they usually take the car out to give it a warm up so that they can then get a good Co2 reading from the exhaust...
but generally if you dont trust the garage i think anything more than 5 miles is unacceptable, even if they take it for a spin to warm it up or from place to place in teh garage it wont be that much...
but generally if you dont trust the garage i think anything more than 5 miles is unacceptable, even if they take it for a spin to warm it up or from place to place in teh garage it wont be that much...
Jayho said:
If my cars in the garage for something like that i usually take a picture of the millage with my phone outside the garage first... but then the garage i use i trust them all, there good friends, and i generally wont mind if they took it out for a run... plus with MOT's anyway, they usually take the car out to give it a warm up so that they can then get a good Co2 reading from the exhaust...
but generally if you dont trust the garage i think anything more than 5 miles is unacceptable, even if they take it for a spin to warm it up or from place to place in teh garage it wont be that much...
I would have thought moving it in the yard would only account for 1 mile (max), and anything more than that is unacceptable.but generally if you dont trust the garage i think anything more than 5 miles is unacceptable, even if they take it for a spin to warm it up or from place to place in teh garage it wont be that much...
In this case, I asked them the mileage when they had finished the work, so as far as I'm concerned, the car should be parked up until I'm ready to collect it.
Many years ago one of my teachers from school sent his mini into a garage to have some work done on it and it ended up being given to my friends mum as a courtesy car!
Didnt go down too well when the teacher saw his car parked at the school gates with my pals mum driving,but we used the incident to take the mickey out of him until we left.
Didnt go down too well when the teacher saw his car parked at the school gates with my pals mum driving,but we used the incident to take the mickey out of him until we left.
monthefish said:
Jayho said:
If my cars in the garage for something like that i usually take a picture of the millage with my phone outside the garage first... but then the garage i use i trust them all, there good friends, and i generally wont mind if they took it out for a run... plus with MOT's anyway, they usually take the car out to give it a warm up so that they can then get a good Co2 reading from the exhaust...
but generally if you dont trust the garage i think anything more than 5 miles is unacceptable, even if they take it for a spin to warm it up or from place to place in teh garage it wont be that much...
I would have thought moving it in the yard would only account for 1 mile (max), and anything more than that is unacceptable.but generally if you dont trust the garage i think anything more than 5 miles is unacceptable, even if they take it for a spin to warm it up or from place to place in teh garage it wont be that much...
In this case, I asked them the mileage when they had finished the work, so as far as I'm concerned, the car should be parked up until I'm ready to collect it.
for services ect i dont really care that much, but could just be me.
Synergy said:
Jayho said:
If my cars in the garage for something like that i usually take a picture of the millage with my phone outside the garage first...
I do that and stick a post-it note on the dash with the mileage written on it, just so they know that i know.
I really dont give a rats arse though if my mechanic takes my car for a spin... he's a good guy and i trust his skills with the car and the spanner very much so! i usually get picked up to and taken to the garage in my car anyway so the millage is bound to be up. and i get dropped off at home from there cars, so should they charge me for the petrol and millage used there? nah!
I have dropped one of my cars off and then spotted it later in the day trundling round. I am not bothered, I trust the chap who was driving and know his style is to tootle about at 30. It is give and take, they may do a bit of work and not charge you full price, what comes around goes around.
JB! said:
depends what your getting done.
i'm not fussed upto 50 miles as long as the fuel level is the same.
i should expand.i'm not fussed upto 50 miles as long as the fuel level is the same.
my car ONLY goes to 3 people i trust. and i am uaually around when 2 of those people are working on it as its usually a driveway/after hours jobbie.
the indie i use does drive cars hard, but thats fine, i drive mine hard, if there is a fault how else is he going to find it driving like an OAP. i also know he's got more emchanical sympathy than me, so provided the fuel is the same stuff at the same level i'm not bothered.
monthefish said:
I would have thought moving it in the yard would only account for 1 mile (max), and anything more than that is unacceptable.
I would say that normally enough miles to properly road test any repair i.e. enough to ge the engine warmed up and to get to a road with at least a 50mph speed limit for purposes of a road test. I know a guy with a red Ferrari. Well, it's his dad's. Anyway, we once took it for a spin into town and left it in a valeted carpark. When we came back the f
king thing had hundreds of miles added! We got it back to his place and tried running in reverse to rewind the miles... it didn't work. My mate went mental and kicked the fk out of the car.
True story.
king thing had hundreds of miles added! We got it back to his place and tried running in reverse to rewind the miles... it didn't work. My mate went mental and kicked the fk out of the car. True story.
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