We seem to have a lot of discussions of late around car dealers and how bad/good there are. I thought therefore a thread where we can share our experiences might be a good idea? Mods if this has been done before or gets out of hand then feel free to kill it.
So as starter from me, well from my dad back in the day....
Back in the 80's my dad had a Rover SD1 Vitesse, a super saloon of the day and very rapid back then. He had some issues with a misfire so, much to his annoyance and fear, he took it into a local Rover dealership (long gone now) in Cannock and took me with him. You could see the saliva in the workshop manager when dad pitched up with the Vitesse. He laid out the issue to the manager who said let us have a look for you...
No more than a few minutes later, 4 up, the car drives out of the dealership at really scary pace and can be heard screaming up the A5 as they proceed to blast it up the road. It come back about 10 minutes later, after 3 or 4 laps of a well known island in Cannock, full of tyre squeal and pulls back into the dealership. I've never seen my dad lose his **** but without thinking and in red mist he had the driver around the neck and about to flatten him before the other 3 'passengers' dived out to pull him off. Added to that 2 seats had oil on them from overalls of the 'mechanics'.
It seems the manager threw the keys to the young workshop lad and said move that to which he took that to mean load up this Rover and blast it around for 10 minutes, no knowing my dad and I were walking around the cars out front. My dad when full on mental at the owner of the garage, wrote letters and all sorts. I can't remember what happened in the end, but I remember the day.
I knew at that point one had to tread careful with their property when hading it to a garage.
So as starter from me, well from my dad back in the day....
Back in the 80's my dad had a Rover SD1 Vitesse, a super saloon of the day and very rapid back then. He had some issues with a misfire so, much to his annoyance and fear, he took it into a local Rover dealership (long gone now) in Cannock and took me with him. You could see the saliva in the workshop manager when dad pitched up with the Vitesse. He laid out the issue to the manager who said let us have a look for you...
No more than a few minutes later, 4 up, the car drives out of the dealership at really scary pace and can be heard screaming up the A5 as they proceed to blast it up the road. It come back about 10 minutes later, after 3 or 4 laps of a well known island in Cannock, full of tyre squeal and pulls back into the dealership. I've never seen my dad lose his **** but without thinking and in red mist he had the driver around the neck and about to flatten him before the other 3 'passengers' dived out to pull him off. Added to that 2 seats had oil on them from overalls of the 'mechanics'.
It seems the manager threw the keys to the young workshop lad and said move that to which he took that to mean load up this Rover and blast it around for 10 minutes, no knowing my dad and I were walking around the cars out front. My dad when full on mental at the owner of the garage, wrote letters and all sorts. I can't remember what happened in the end, but I remember the day.
I knew at that point one had to tread careful with their property when hading it to a garage.
