Everyone is slagging main dealers off and ive not had a great ammount of experiance with main dealers other than our local volvo garage as the volvo has been back there about 70 times since new. Anyway i have two bad stories of small garages one is local to oswestry. The brake pads on the volvo needed replacing so we went to the volvo dealership and they quoted us some stupid ammount of money and they couldnt fit us in at the time as part of the workshop was destroyed after a car caught fire with an electrical fault. So we shopped about and the local garage gave us a cheaper quote and could fit us in. So we took the car in the morning they did the job and we had it returned. While driving it it made a bit of a funny noise and they didnt feel right. So we looked at it and it just didnt seem right. Took it back they said its fine nothing wrong with it. So then took it to the volvo dealership where we found out they had fitted the wrong rear brake brake pads. There where to versions with very slight diffrences. At first they refused to refund us but after the threat of the solisitor they refunded us.
The second was with our old car a vectra. We had a crash where someone pulled out infront of us. Destroying most of the front passenger side of the car. So went though the usual procedure it went for repair to a auterised repair center for the car insurance. And the car came back. With the wrong size wheel on the front passenger side. It was visably smaller. When they pulled up outside the house i looked out and at the age of 11 i could see the wheel was far smaller than the others without even comparing it to one of the others. So IMO if a "reputable" garage cant even get the size of the wheel right what else can they get wrong.
But to be fair there are some good garages out there a local garage kept me nans F reg fiesta running strong for many years. There not all bad just some.
I dont want to see this new rule to come in it will cripple our ecconamy even more and there will be more un safe vehicles on the road.
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Ashley Williams
I always thought by 2013 we would have flying cars, but we have got blankets with sleeves!
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