:lolup: I have been reading this thread all morning. pure comedy! im so glad im buying off here and not from a stealer!
i have a few funny stories;
went to get a quote from vauxhall for my cambelt change (just to be curios).
ME - Hi, id like a price of a cambelt change on a 51 plate corsa c, 1.4 sri.
HIM - o a very nice little car, but they have a chain and therefore never need changing. thatl save you a couple of hundred quid.
ME - No, i know that they changed them that year to have a chain, but mine definitely has the belt
HIM - We've got one out the back being done right now and they definitely have a chain.
ME - I have already had a quote from another garage to do it, and I know there is a belt, so can i have the price of the change please.
HIM - shall we go out and see the vehicle (i love their 3rd person references to cars lol) and i'll show you where the chain is.
ME - yes that would be great thanks,
(i open the car and pop the bonnet and start to open it)
HIM - its right......o it has a belt
ME - o right
, so how much do you reakon it'l cost to change that then???
then they wanted 350 quid. went to the garage 200 yards down the road and they quoted 190 with vauxhall parts, that they get from the vauxhall parts centre. (can you guess where i went)
The other one is a VERY lnog story involving my misses buying a new corsa from vauxhall (the same one i had the above issue with).
to cut a long story short, she bought a new car, drove it for 4 days (did 67 miles in it) then a stragne noise came from the engine after it was turned off.
she phoned up and explained the problem and they said o dear. make sure you
dont drive the car as it is an engine problem and could cause huge problems to the car. (at this point she looked GUTTED to be fair - which i think all of us would be) so i had a chat to the bloke on the phone and he said ........wait for it......
if you could drop the car off today we'll take a look at it and assess if it needs replacing.
so i kept my mouth shut :quiet: , we dropped it off and they phoned and said that the car needed a new engine as it has been destroyed. you should of not driven it when you heard the noise.
i said you told me to drive it down, and youd take a look, i cant help it if it is broken.
they basically said theyd put a new engine in and i said i dont think so.
ill have a new car please.
12 weeks later a new car arrives with a £600 black glass roof/sunroof as compensation.
the VERY funy thing is that at the time my misses bought a new corsa, her mum did too. when my misses's went wrong they assured us that her mums car wouldnt go wrong (even tho they are EXACTLY the same car just a different colour) so i said how can you be so sure. surely the engines were made at the same time as they are the same and the cars were ordered at the same time and you obviously make the engines in batches. they said that wasnt the case.
guess what happened a couple of weeks ago.......her mums car's engine started making the same noise.....
lets just say that im on first name terms with the regional sales manager for vauxhall!