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How does your mechanic treat your vehicle?

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    #32
    kev91
    Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭kev91


    i used to work for a garage summer work and every car that came in for the smallest of jobs i cleaned it bassicaly i was told when i started that respect the customers cars as if it was your own so i put seat covers on steering covers etc and some of the more high end show worthy cars i cleaned and polished

    and now i do some nixers services and still the same respect the car i work on even tho some of them are **** boxs i still respect them at the end of the day they are puttin money in my pocket

    OP if i was you i wouldnt take that **** off someone your payin to work on your car i would have not payed him if i was you


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    #33
    mullingar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭mullingar


    Lauder wrote: »
    The treatment of my car by mechanics is one of the reasons I always go to the main dealer. Will have proper comeback is case of problems.

    They protect the car well during service or any routine job. both front seats fully covered, steering wheel covered, wing covers used when bonnet open. And when they are finished the valet the car. Costs a bit more but a great service.


    Pure myth I'm afraid.

    There are good and sh1te main dealers, also there are good and sh1te independent garages.

    The term "you get what you pay for" is not entirely correct with garages. If any indy gives your car a good service, go back. If its not a good service, don't go back

    All decent indy's use these mat/seat protectors and usually give the car a quick wash. You pay dearly for this at main dealers at their €80/hr (or whatever it is these days )


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    #34
    Theta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭Theta


    Got my last service done in a main dealer. Car was spotless when it came back apart from they had left the plastic seat cover on the drivers seat and a paper floor mat.

    I didnt really care they did a good job and the car was spotless otherwise.

    I had a friend who left his car manual under his bonnet before. He was looking at the fuse disgram and forgot all about it. From what we can gather it was there for weeks.


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    #35
    BlackWizard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭BlackWizard


    metzengerstein wrote: »
    your better off .i do what i can on mine also saves so much money,if only i could have done that rust myself :( .i think some of the newer cars are made so complicated that you cant do alot ,or am i wrong ?

    Sometimes I get that impression too. I don't know why they require so many specialist tools just to unscrew what should be a simple bolt or screw. It's like the car is put together by someone who never expects anyone to access any of the parts ever again.


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    #36
    katana1
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭katana1


    Fishtits wrote: »
    Getting back to the OP's point, surely having you car returned clean is basic stuff?

    I'm a mechanic, for various reasons I've farmed out jobs on my own cars over the past few years, the results were pathetic.

    One job returned the car with covers over all the drivers side stuff, the passenger seat was mired in grime... the second time the car was returned with piss poor brakes, a real eye opener vis a vis standards, all it took was bleeding to restore to normal...

    There are some really dodgy buggers out there.

    I blame the training regime.


    You are a person that takes pride in his work and that makes a big difference.
    The people I am talking about are well qualified but it's pure laziness.
    You can see this by the state of the garages --tools thrown inches deep on the bench's etc.
    Both these people served their time in said garages which were owned by their dads. Basically got the business and customer base for nothing--As they say --You have more respect for something you had to work hard to get .
    I really wish they could take a leaf out of your book.:)


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    #37
    ocokev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭ocokev


    A warning light on my brothers car kept flashing so off to the garage to sort problem.
    They told him it was a problem with the brakes and a good few euro later got car back, with no flashing light.
    Only a few weeks later he had trouble with brakes and asked a friend who told him brake pads were shot and the brake warning light wire was cut.


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    #38
    katana1
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭katana1


    ocokev wrote: »
    A warning light on my brothers car kept flashing so off to the garage to sort problem.
    They told him it was a problem with the brakes and a good few euro later got car back, with no flashing light.
    Only a few weeks later he had trouble with brakes and asked a friend who told him brake pads were shot and the brake warning light wire was cut.


    I am glad I started this thread (something that I rarely do). Thanks to all the useful replies, I hope that this will open not only my eyes but make other people aware of what to be an acceptable standard from a garage.
    Simple things like the garage using your car to go to the breakers for someone else's parts.If you think about it they are using your fuel and that's not cheap.
    The round trip to the breakers that the mentioned garage uses is 40 miles.
    I know that I am going off topic with my own thread but I really hope this will benefit others.:)


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    #39
    mullingar
    Registered Users Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭mullingar


    ocokev wrote: »
    A warning light on my brothers car kept flashing so off to the garage to sort problem.
    They told him it was a problem with the brakes and a good few euro later got car back, with no flashing light.
    Only a few weeks later he had trouble with brakes and asked a friend who told him brake pads were shot and the brake warning light wire was cut.
    :eek::eek::eek:

    Was this a nixer for somebody?? Indy garage??

    Shocking


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    #40
    ocokev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭ocokev


    mullingar wrote: »
    :eek::eek::eek:

    Was this a nixer for somebody?? Indy garage??

    Shocking

    A main dealer, he did bring it further.


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    #41
    EPM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭EPM


    ocokev wrote: »
    A main dealer, he did bring it further.

    Holy f*%k!


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    #42
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    I once dropped down a car for a brake pipe and fluid change to an independent garage near me. He was to do the job Saturday Morning.

    I phoned him on Sat evening to arrange collection time and find out the damage. His reply was "Crap, I knew I was finished early!"

    The job wasn't done because he forgot about it. The reason was that there was a delivery coming the Saturday Morning, and as he didn't trust the delivery driver and his eyesight, so he moved all the customer cars out of the yard to the front of his house. The trouble with my car was that he didn't want people calling asking about my car (a vintage car) if it was parked outside the front of the house, so he parked it around the back. The trouble was that as it wasn't with the rest so he forgot about it. Needless to say that mechanic is on my recommended list.

    At a different mechanic's workshop, I once saw a mechanic put engine oil into a gearbox as he was "out of gear oil".....


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    #43
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    ocokev wrote: »
    A main dealer, he did bring it further.

    Scary.

    As for the mechanics using your car to head to the breakers OP, thats unacceptable work practice, especially without your permission! Its very casual and unprofessional and you shouldn't stand for that kind of crap, local or not.

    There are plenty of perfectly good mechanics and garages out there who would be delighted with your custom and not treat you like a tool, and I for one would travel the 15 miles to and from them over it.


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