Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Please note that it is not permitted to have referral links posted in your signature. Keep these links contained in the appropriate forum. Thank you.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2055940817/signature-rules

***** Motors Chat - Round 5*****

11213151718319

Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Sorry to hear that. Nothing spoils are new purchase more than issues cropping up.

    I can tolerate issues but when its due to incompetence and lack of customer service I can't stand it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    Issue with the sunroof and the clutch pedal (squeaks like crazy).It's a common enough issue with both of them.

    They had my car for 2 weeks,they eventually fixed the sunroof and told me the clutch pedal had been as well.It hasn't.

    Two weeks and not doing anything? That's bad form.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I can tolerate issues but when its due to incompetence and lack of customer service I can't stand it.


    Are these being fixed under warranty?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Two weeks and not doing anything? That's bad form.

    In fairness to them they did fix the sunroof, the part arrived on the 14th day.... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Issue with the sunroof and the clutch pedal (squeaks like crazy).It's a common enough issue with both of them.

    They had my car for 2 weeks,they eventually fixed the sunroof and told me the clutch pedal had been as well.It hasn't.

    That is VERY poor form.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


    In fairness to them they did fix the sunroof, the part arrived on the 14th day.... :rolleyes:

    They kept the car for two weeks to fix the sunroof...unless the thing was hanging off they sound like a right bunch of thorough professionals...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Are these being fixed under warranty?

    I'd expect them to be, the sunroof has.So, i'll be going back in tomorrow regarding the pedal.
    ba_barabus wrote: »
    That is VERY poor form.

    I've never experienced anything like it before.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    I've never experienced anything like it before.
    Is it a main dealer or a used car garage?

    Neither sounds like huge issue to sort really so I don't understand why they're dragging their heels so much.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    OSI wrote: »
    Hmmm Jag XF or Merc CLS. I'm getting old.

    XF obviously

    Love the irish ad where the small print shows 2.2 and 3 litre diesel prices yet gives a hearty v8 growl in the backround.

    Hahaha


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    ba_barabus wrote: »
    Is it a main dealer or a used car garage?

    Neither sounds like huge issue to sort really so I don't understand why they're dragging their heels so much.

    Pretty large main dealership.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,313 ✭✭✭Mycroft H


    I'd expect them to be, the sunroof has.So, i'll be going back in tomorrow regarding the pedal.



    I've never experienced anything like it before.


    Well your warranty would be with any Honda dealer, no?

    I'd contact Honda Ireland directly and advise them that you're not with the level of after-care service being delivered and you will be going to another dealership.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    XF obviously

    Love the irish ad where the small print shows 2.2 and 3 litre diesel prices yet gives a hearty v8 growl in the backround.

    Hahaha

    uuugh, really don't like those, spent a week being driven around in one last year, it was seriously uncomfortable, suspension was rock hard. Not helped by the fact the driver was a lunatic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Pretty large main dealership.
    Have you tried talking to the dealer principal to see if anything can be done?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,618 ✭✭✭ba_barabus


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Well your warranty would be with any Honda dealer, no?

    I'd contact Honda Ireland directly and advise them that you're not with the level of after-care service being delivered and you will be going to another dealership.

    As I read it, it's not in a Honda dealership.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Mycroft H wrote: »
    Well your warranty would be with any Honda dealer, no?

    I'd contact Honda Ireland directly and advise them that you're not with the level of after-care service being delivered and you will be going to another dealership.

    5 year old car, not bought from a Honda dealership.Warranty is with the garage I bought it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    Jaysus there is no stopping you is there :p

    Even 1xxmph didn't faze you as we passed a FTO for lolz "We must catch the other boardsie" That being said my brother recently changed from a 1.6 vectra "sell it for the love of god Ba" that he had for a couple of years and it developed so many issues over time. He now has a rough enough "paintwork mianly" 156 1.8 t spark and he loves it to death and i must say it's a nice place to be with a really nice footwell even our toyota fanboi dad thinks it's great. But even before this was the case it was an alfa 159 5 cylinder diesel for me remapped if i needed something sensible.

    Next car won't be Fwd though, Monaro/S4/Something japanese upper tier (skyline/rx7/nsx or a Bmw of some desciption

    Sure someone had to take over from 166man, who's became quite the Japanese fanboy recently. :p

    Was that your car or mine? :pac:
    Converted a friend of mine to busso goodness at the weekend!:) it was some change from the fiesta he was used to driving.

    I'd go for an m5 or a skyline! You'd make Cian Ryan's day.

    How rough was it? In fairness most of them are fairly rough on the road. I'd planned to do some bodywork on mine, but have decided I want to upgrade shocks to konis, ebc brakes and pads along with braided lines, polybush it and maybe fit strut braces, q2 lsd and eibach arbs before I go taking dents out of it and getting the wheels powdercoated etc.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,302 ✭✭✭Supergurrier


    Scortho wrote: »
    Sure someone had to take over from 166man, who's became quite the Japanese fanboy recently. :p

    Was that your car or mine? :pac:
    Converted a friend of mine to busso goodness at the weekend!:) it was some change from the fiesta he was used to driving.

    I'd go for an m5 or a skyline! You'd make Cian Ryan's day.

    How rough was it? In fairness most of them are fairly rough on the road. I'd planned to do some bodywork on mine, but have decided I want to upgrade shocks to konis, ebc brakes and pads along with braided lines, polybush it and maybe fit strut braces, q2 lsd and eibach arbs before I go taking dents out of it and getting the wheels powdercoated etc.

    We were in the car with the unbalanced back wheels not the one with the passenger airbag making a break for freedom :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    We were in the car with the unbalanced back wheels not the one with the passenger airbag making a break for freedom :p

    Sure I rarely carry passengers (anyone who tells me to slow down when I amnt speeding gets thrown off the list of lifts!:pac:)
    Passenger airbag is now securely fixed thanks to a <racist term removed> job with poly cement. I'd be surprised if your brothers isn't the same. The clips just go on them after a while it seems as every 156 I've seen has a loose cover.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    OSI wrote: »
    That is one ridiculously tempting motor I have to say.

    I was tempting a few gta owners in the uk to come over and have a look.
    It's ridiculously underpriced by international standards but you can get it even cheaper as it won't be selling any time soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Scortho wrote: »
    Sure someone had to take over from 166man, who's became quite the Japanese fanboy recently. :p

    Was that your car or mine? :pac:
    Converted a friend of mine to busso goodness at the weekend!:) it was some change from the fiesta he was used to driving.

    I'd go for an m5 or a skyline! You'd make Cian Ryan's day.

    How rough was it? In fairness most of them are fairly rough on the road. I'd planned to do some bodywork on mine, but have decided I want to upgrade shocks to konis, ebc brakes and pads along with braided lines, polybush it and maybe fit strut braces, q2 lsd and eibach arbs before I go taking dents out of it and getting the wheels powdercoated etc.

    You mean RWD manual German fanboi :pac:


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    dgt wrote: »
    You mean RWD manual German fanboi :pac:

    Oh no, he's been singing the praises of toyota reliability. That and feckin wreckin ball!:(
    The thing that needs a wrecking ball is his variator. Loud as ****.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Scortho wrote: »
    Oh no, he's been singing the praises of toyota reliability. That and feckin wreckin ball!:(
    The thing that needs a wrecking ball is his variator. Loud as ****.

    Jaypers he needs a few days up here so, I'll iron that crap out of him :pac:


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Scortho wrote: »
    Oh no, he's been singing the praises of toyota reliability. That and feckin wreckin ball!:(
    The thing that needs a wrecking ball is his variator. Loud as ****.

    Variator on the 156 or the GTV?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    Stheno wrote: »
    Variator on the 156 or the GTV?

    156. Puts sounding like a diesel on a whole new scale. Real bummer for him, as he's basically just rebuilt the entire suspension.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Scortho wrote: »
    156. Puts sounding like a diesel on a whole new scale. Real bummer for him, as he's basically just rebuilt the entire suspension.

    Ah that's not as bad as on the gtv. The gtv bottom end makes a sound like a dead variator when it's about to crap itself.

    Regardless it's an horrific noise, people used stare at my car due to the horrific noise.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    I was talking to one of my lecturers today about wall details, and some how it came around to cars, now this guy has a fairly timid, wouldn't harm a fly, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth look about him, he proceeded to tell me in his youth him and a friend of his put a cosworth engine, with about 250bhp as far as i can remember, into a Citroen 2cv

    The idea in itself is hilarious never mind actually seeing it :pac: showed me a picture and all, looks bonkers :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Scortho


    I was talking to one of my lecturers today about wall details, and some how it came around to cars, now this guy has a fairly timid, wouldn't harm a fly, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth look about him, he proceeded to tell me in his youth him and a friend of his put a cosworth engine, with about 250bhp as far as i can remember, into a Citroen 2cv

    The idea in itself is hilarious never mind actually seeing it :pac: showed me a picture and all, looks bonkers :pac:

    Sounds like something dgt would do!
    A busso v6 seicento:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,606 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    Scortho wrote: »
    Sounds like something dgt would do!
    A busso v6 seicento:pac:

    I sat there for a good 15 minutes laughing at the idea of this thing going around somewhere out doing mercs and bmws, while two stereotypical frenchies drove it :pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭pajor


    I sat there for a good 15 minutes laughing at the idea of this thing going around somewhere out doing mercs and bmws, while two stereotypical frenchies drove it :pac::pac:

    Sounds like the getaway car in a bad French heist film. :D


  • Advertisement
  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Woke up to find half a tooth missing. I'm so distraught thats happened, I hope the dentist can do something :(:(:(


This discussion has been closed.
Advertisement