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Daft things you see/hear/experience?

Phil W

Phil W

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As above, what daft stuff have you experience thats car related at work?

I've had a few instances recently...

One of the funniest has to be a saleswoman that started with us, she was supposed to be selling cars mind "thats the Ford Vectra right?"

She also looked at a picture of a Mercedes S class and said "So, thats the new Bentley"

Another corker is a lady who's rung up, ordered a £80,000 BMW 650i due to pick up last Friday, can't get insured on it anywhere so she's now employing a driver to driver her around in it!

Some people!

Phil :D
 
A women called my car an MR5.

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Probably the bloke who took me out on a 530i Sport test drive back in January.

He was sheer comedy gold, but here are some of the things he said:

'No mate you can't get these in a manual. They only do an Auto becuase its so powerful that it needs a torque converter to handle the torque'

His reply to 'Thats odd, my Dads 530d has 100nm more torque and thats manual with... 'Thats a diesel tho, this is a performance car'.

So off we go on the test drive...

'You know this is a 3 litre M5?'

And the absolute best..

I asked him what a button did on the dashboard.

'Thats the active suspension, if you press it then everything firms up for max sport'

I pressed it. The electric rear blind went up.

He had so much more comedy gold, as well as trying to convince me after I convinced him they do manuals that it was an expensive option and wasn't standard. He even got his boss out.

Sad thing is they both worked for a large national chain..
 
funniest thing i can think of is when i was living in glasgow with the g/f and she was on the phone to her old man. He had a problem with his rover 220 turbo diesel. She asked me if i knew of any problems with it and i rattled of a couple of things to check and added at the end, 'Oh you should probably check the flux capacitor'... :D

Unfortunately i couldn't hold the laughter in for longer than about five/ten mins. They were having this big discussion 'yeah, dad, ask them about the flux capacitor at the garage' they wanted to know where it was 'connected to the downrod turb demodulator', 'yeah, you could maybe check it yourself first' :D :D

cheap but i was crying
 
fox, thats quality. I love garages. they talks some crap to sell cars.

'rents had went to look at cars yonks ago, liked a cavalier and had a nose about. Looked in the boot, and it was soaking. According to the sales woman, they had just hosed the boot out!

Few years ago my dad bought a Laguna thru reno direct. When the car arrived at dealership for our inspection i tagged along. Looked good ( how little did we know ) and the best thing about it? according to the salesman it was the fact that it had a reg plate consisting of six characters ( ie a12 abc ) makes the car 'more balanced' and 'adds value'
 
Taking an RX-8 out for a test drive, I get behind the wheel

Saleswoman: Be careful it's not like your Elise
Me: What do you mean
Saleswoman: It's rearwheel drive!
Me: :confused:
 
rG-tom said:
completely different discussion topic :s
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How is it?

Most people seem to be ignoring the at work bit in this one, not that those can't be mentioned in the the other thread
 
At work experiences if possible guys ;)

Not as funny, but we asked to see a customers accounts, he transfered funds over from america to show is, only £300m !
 
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