garage lost my service book...

Amleto · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:04

How much is a service book worth? I handed my car over to a friend's 'garage' for a service and he has lost my service book.

I've got an st220 so I imagine that it's quite important for when I want to sell it...

Is there anything I can do to get a new one and get it re-stamped? I have receipts from all previous services, but I haven't checked to see if they mention the mileage.

Ricochet J · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:26

I'd be pretty cheesed off and would nicely ask them to look harder.

In any case, give them photocopies of the reciepts of the previous services and ask them to make up a new book and chase the stamps themselves.

Amleto · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:38

it's been about 4 weeks since they had it so I don't think there's much chance of it coming back now

Ricochet J · 13 Mar 2010 at 22:43

In that case tell them to chase up a new book.

Sin_Chase · 14 Mar 2010 at 05:58

If you (they) are lucky they put it in someone elses car and they might return it once they stumble across it.

Get them to call the owners they have dealt with recently? I would be pretty urinated off if that happened to me.

eatcustard · 14 Mar 2010 at 08:09

Send them a bill for £500
as that is what you may lose on value (maybe)

Amleto · 14 Mar 2010 at 10:06

I owe him about a few hundred £ for work done just after the service. Is it too immoral to withhold it until I get my/another book back? :mad:

russ9898 · 14 Mar 2010 at 10:09

Amleto said:
I owe him about a few hundred £ for work done just after the service. Is it too immoral to withhold it until I get my/another book back?

Nope! Hold payment until you have a new book which is fully stamped. If they send you a book with their service stamp throughout and random dates & mileage then send it straight back.

blueboy2001 · 14 Mar 2010 at 10:51

If you've got invoices for previous services then you've still got the history and it shouldn't affect the value or make the car any harder to sell. IMO a few stamps in a book is pretty meaningless without the invoices anyway - you can get stamps made up for a few quid so very simple to fake a service book.

A new service book from Ford will only cost a few pounds, get one from your local dealer and take it to the servicing dealers if nearby, or send it in the post if too far, with copies of your invoices and ask them to stamp the book for you.