Lol Brenda
Garages really can be crap, dad bought his m sport approved used BMW...they state won't need a service for 6 months, 2months in, starts on about brake fluid service...dad says oh I will just pay! I went mental, said no and insisted sytner picked up the tab, they had to cover the lot as I had been in the trade and new all the ins and outs..I really don't get why they try to con you as surely word of mouth will lose you customers
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Yes Sue I completely agree about 'main dealer' service standards. I had smoke & flames comming from under the bonnet entirely down to bad workmanship on a service for my Mercedes Sprinter.


If you can find a small independant garage who does mainly service & repairs so NOT a car sales place then you may well be better off going to them.


It's so easy to fob the customer off with some technical gobbly gook. I think Griff will support me on this, she had to deal with lots of different makes in her spanner swinging days

I posted above before I read this but was pretty sure you'd say something like this. You know, from having been working on the car, exactly what needs doing, if some smart arse on the front desk tries to make it up it's degrading your integrity. The guy with the spanner is the guy who counts, not some reception based muppet with a fancy job title

Yes, the general public will never be able to pin them down but I agree with you, money seems to be the motivating factor, not pride in ones work and doing a good job.


Oh well it is 2018 not 1918 haha.

This is why I trust my garage. They sold me the car I have and are very good to me. Even doing things with no charge. The funniest thing is, if my daughter is with me when I pop in to see them they always say. "what have you done now", speaking to her. lol!! Off to watch more Corrie. Have a good rest of evening peeps.

Yes Harvey, we had a bonus scheme at the land rover dealership...I never bothered, I liked the job and fixing cars, the money wasn't really a big deal to me. I now have a fella called Simon who is my mobile mechanic, he doesn't rip you off, works at your property and is so honest. The bus company Steve works for has a thing called a time ticket...if your bus runs late at the end of the shift, they give you a ticket for the time, you save up the minutes and get an hour day etc off, you don't get paid for a certain amount of time if you run over so all the drivers run at least 10mins late so they get a time ticket and get something out of the company, drives Steve mental as it encourages people to hand the bus over late and then he has to make up the time...I am sure people in charge are slow in the head...same as the bin men, there day is complete the round and go home, they miss out streets and cite parking issues and it's their word against yours, they get home early and are paid overtime on a weekend to return and collect the missed bins! Nuts

Hey a fellow Panda lover..........what have you got? mine is Percy 2005 panda

It's 2015. Just the basic model but with an extra seatbelt in the back for when the grandkids visit. Lovely little car. Easy to drive, easy to park.

The twin air version was like driving a lawnmower. We were lucky to get out of 3rd gear going to town because it didn't kick into fourth until about 35 miles an hour unless you wanted shaking to bits. I hated it.