My two pennies.
1. Self inflicted wound by a sales rep at a company years ago, sorry if it is a repeat I have mentioned before.
Late 1980's and many cars still have carb's. One rep does a high mileage into/home from the office. We got offered some "magic" things to try and improve his economy. One was a magnet that wraps around the petrol pipe and claims to align the petrol and smooth the flow blah blah blah. Any way he fitted it and ran it for a couple of weeks. Always coming into the office and saying how much better it was blah blah blah. One day his car was in for a service and he borrowed mine. We got a call from the dealer asking if he wanted the magnet thing to be detached from the brake servo hose and fitted to the petrol line where it should be!
2. I got the E63 estate on lease from Mercedes Benz Fleet Services some time back on a great deal. On arrival I enjoyed driving and one day registered it for London Congestion Tax through the web site. It informed me I was driving a pink Fiat 500 Pop. I will admit to being surprised at how spacious the boot was on the new model 500. The supplying dealer had fitted the wrong plates to two (or perhaps more) cars in their central prep site. LE63XXX instead of LL63XXX had been put on mine. I put it on a letter to them instantly incase I had been clocked by the Police or camera etc. with me knowing it. I got a tug the very next morning, sods law. Anyway they were nice about as I showed them the emails and my work at discovering and trying to correct it.
3. I had a Renault 5GTTurbo many many moons back. I got involved in an accident due to someone underestimating my speed away from the line on a roundabout. It went away for repair at the Aldershot Renault dealer. I had a date 3 weeks for the repair. I got two weeks in and the date came back for another 3 weeks claiming parts problems. Anyway 7 weeks later I got the car back and noticed some paint flect on the offside (my impact had been from the near side) and did a bit of sleuthing. It turns out they had repaired it and then spanked it on the test drive!
Last edited by Alistair; 05/01/20 09:28 PM.
