Doesnt get any better with mercedes either... dads car had:
I got told by 3 dealers i couldnt test drive a 172/182 and couldnt dream of owning or insuring one and basicly got told i was just after a joy ride.... so they lost sales.
Its quite a list to say myself and my dad do most of the stuff on our cars ourself, like my 172's cambelt , engine mounts etc rebuilt the gearbox, front suspension, rear suspension, half the engine etc on the 106 so its very rare our cars are at dealers and it seems when they are they get damaged / poor work done on them.
Im of the opinion not many people take pride in there work on cars these days...
£1,000 worth of work billed for to replace a seal on the rear diff but not carried out and i think legal action was threatened.
Pink screen wash spilt on the old mercedes passangers seat and it was a cloth seat.
A wing mirror glass damaged by them jet washing it with chemicals to close..
And we swore they had not changed the oil filter once and the canister still had dust all over it that showed no sign of being disturbed...
It took a Merceded Benz approved repair centre 3 months to sort it out after it had the front bumper painted... came back with a dent and a scratch/scuff from another car down one side and they bottomed it out getting it off the loloader and smashed the under plastics... then they left masking tape in the paint.. then they broke the door liner removing the dent so it leaked water.. then finally they rushed it and the lacqer went cloudy.. then the area manager got involved and it was all finally sorted FOC.
We had a mondeo that had wheel trims cable tied on, it went for a service they advised the disks and pads were low with measurements yet they had not removed the wheel trims...
Autoglass.. replaced the windscreen on our old merc fitted it wonky.. left shavings trapped and viewable.. and to top it off the vin number is painted on behind the glass they scratched it up so you could not read the vin!! Same again dad had the area managed out to the house and it was sorted they had to get a specialist paint guy in to re do the vin
I got told by 3 dealers i couldnt test drive a 172/182 and couldnt dream of owning or insuring one and basicly got told i was just after a joy ride.... so they lost sales.
Its quite a list to say myself and my dad do most of the stuff on our cars ourself, like my 172's cambelt , engine mounts etc rebuilt the gearbox, front suspension, rear suspension, half the engine etc on the 106 so its very rare our cars are at dealers and it seems when they are they get damaged / poor work done on them.
Im of the opinion not many people take pride in there work on cars these days...