***** Motors chat - round 12 *****

Toyotafanboi

CIP4 wrote: »

That loan A3 I had a few months ago was driving it a few days so put €10 diesel in it and it ended up going back with more fuel in it than what I got it with raging :pac:

That's the problem with them :pac:.

Easiest way is to hand it over near empty, just before the fuel light and make it the customers duty to fill. Give it out full and asking for it to be returnd full is a mugs game!

EPAndlee

Not many customers have the decency to put fuel in a loan car

colm_mcm

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

That's the problem with them :pac:.

Easiest way is to hand it over near empty, just before the fuel light and make it the customers duty to fill. Give it out full and asking for it to be returnd full is a mugs game!

Used to have customers giving out when their free courtesy car didn’t have petrol in it.

Toyotafanboi

colm_mcm wrote: »

Used to have customers giving out when their free courtesy car didn’t have petrol in it.

Every single day. They just don't get it, even when you explain to them they are the ones going to be using it.

So they they kick up a stink, get the car for free, fuel for free and then they don't take the bait on any add on work because "they have a guy" for that. No wipers, no tyres, no pads, just the special offer oil change please and make sure the car is valeted.

**** off.

Anyway :pac:

OldMrBrennan83

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CIP4

EPAndlee wrote: »

Not many customers have the decency to put fuel in a loan car

I’d feel bad to drive one around and not put something in it at the end of the day if it was your own car you’d have to put fuel in it anyway.

First loan A4 I got had no fuel in it but they gave me a €20 voucher and said go next door and get diesel. But at that time I had brought the car to get something small checked out and turned out it needed a new clutch after only just getting it so they were threading carefully even though what fuel was in the loan car didn’t bother me. But at the same I brought it back with the same level of fuel in it as after I had put the €20 in it the first day.

Toyotafanboi

Patww79 wrote: »

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Oh yeah, sure they are a handy item to sell :pac:

On the flip side an awful lot of people do have poor wipers, they aren't not getting something for their money.

Cantona's Collars

Arrested on suspicion of careless driving,you don't say.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10216643185419991&id=1470942041

pajor

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Topping up the loan car is your first mistake :pac:

Nah it was €6 something, it had used hardly anything. Garage asks to return it full, fair thing to do for an otherwise free loaner.

flatty

I took my mother's fiat 500 out to fill it for her a year or so back. It clicked full at about 20 euros.
I figured it couldn't be right. It clicked again. So did I. I ended up covered in petrol.

fancy pigeon

LIGHTNING wrote: »

What the hell is that video, its mostly of the ground

Looks like the bus smashed all round it, either asleep, drunk or had their hat over their eyes would be my guess

ELM327

LIGHTNING wrote: »

What the hell is that video, its mostly of the ground

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Looks like the bus smashed all round it, either asleep, drunk or had their hat over their eyes would be my guess

If you watch it to the end I can see the bus driver forcing his way in where he/it's not wanted, is that it, do I win a prize?

wotzgoingon

I don't think he was drunk more like lost the plot.

James Bond Junior

I've done worse on GTA!

Mycroft H

Spot the issue!

blade1

Mycroft H wrote: »

Both brake pads on the one side of the disc!?

Mycroft H

Caliper isn't parallel with the discs. Oxidation/corrosion between the alloy caliper and the steel mountings have bent the caliper mounting bolts and skewed the caliper. There's two pads there alright, it's just off centre. It's going to be a right job to get those bolts off!

flatty

There's a fried egg in there?

Leonard Hofstadter

Matt LeBlanc is leaving TopGear:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44320696

Mycroft H

captainspeed wrote: »

Matt LeBlanc is leaving TopGear:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-44320696

Wait, who's left then?

OldMrBrennan83

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punisher5112

Patww79 wrote: »

Harris and Reid. Being the BBC, without a shadow of a doubt the new presenter will be a woman.

Most likely a gender fluid the way things are going.

Ivefoundgod

Heading up north to have a look at a few cars Saturday morning. Anyone know if Charles Hurst Belfast and NI dealers in general are open to negotiation? Have a few cars to view but would be nice to know where I stand before I head up.

tcawley29

Ivefoundgod wrote: »

Heading up north to have a look at a few cars Saturday morning. Anyone know if Charles Hurst Belfast and NI dealers in general are open to negotiation? Have a few cars to view but would be nice to know where I stand before I head up.

I would have thought you could negotiate with anyone as long as you don't completely take the piss

CIP4

Finally got some replacement wheel nut covers only 4 months after two fell off got a good few so now have spares. Got them in my local dealer parts guy was delighted to point out how cheap they are at 79 cents each. To be fair it’s not too often you’d get anything in an Audi dealer for under €1.

Leonard Hofstadter

If garages in the North are anything like those in the rest of the UK, then you won't be able to haggle with them like you can here.

Garages in the rest of the UK will be open all day Saturday and many open on Sundays as well - not sure if that's the case in NI.

colm_mcm

CIP4 wrote: »

Finally got some replacement wheel nut covers only 4 months after two fell off got a good few so now have spares. Got them in my local dealer parts guy was delighted to point out how cheap they are at 79 cents each. To be fair it’s not too often you’d get anything in an Audi dealer for under €1.

Bargain! If only they could design ones that don’t fall off

CIP4

colm_mcm wrote: »

Bargain! If only they could design ones that don’t fall off

Lost two a week after getting it haven’t lost anymore since. Probably won’t lose anymore now that I have bought spares.

ELM327

CIP4 wrote: »

Lost two a week after getting it haven’t lost anymore since. Probably won’t lose anymore now that I have bought spares.

People seem to steal these in my experience.
Anything branded with the OEM logo seems to get stolen.
A neighbour of mine had (no joking) OEM branded wipers that were stolen off his 6 month old dacia sandero and badly replaced with old broken wipers.

We have a lot of local hoodlums going around though in my area, the local police know who they are but can't do anything without catching them.


I'm thinking about putting CCTV on my gate as my bin was stolen the other week, only to be found in the front garden of my neighbour about 1 km down the road... rubbish and all.

James Bond Junior

I had my wind deflectors stolen off my volvo and the windscreen wipers off a focus. I live in a nice estate that is used as a shortcut by some of Limericks least desirable inhabitants. Go figure.:rolleyes::rolleyes: