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Wheel cleaned without permission
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Making something cleaner is certainly not vandalism but I'd be pretty angry if someone made my car cleaner without asking!
Certainly a different tactic of pressure selling!
Personally, I don't think there is much you can do. Go for a drive, the winter weather will have it looking terrible in no time.Thinking critically since 1996....0 -
A new technique for the windscreen cleaner touts. I would have told him £20 to clean the wheels is a rip off but 10 out of 10 for cheek."A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Ride hard or stay home :iloveyou:0 -
Therefore he feels obliged to have the other 3 done (i suspect this is the cleaners sales ploy).
Why does he? If, like you say, he doesn't care what his car looks like, why give some shyster £60? He's not in the least obliged to pay for anything.
Reminds me of these demonstrations of hair curlers that you sometimes see in shopping centres. I was nabbed once by someone who proceeded to vigorously curl one side of my hair. I admired her work whilst listening to her spiel about these 'fabulous curlers' which retailed for about a ton. On finishing she then informed me that if I bought a pair (at £100 I don't think so, love) she'd do the other side.
I wandered round the shops with half my hair curled and half bone-straight. That's far worse than three grubby wheels and a shiny one."Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell" - Edward Abbey.0 -
some folk just don't have enough to worry about .....,I try not to get too stressed out on the forum. I won't argue, i'll just leave a thread if you don't like what I say.
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To be honest, I think people have a right to be annoyed.
I wonder what the wheel cleaner would have done if he didn't take care and managed to break the tyre valve or rubbed a bit too hard and took some of the varnish off the alloy wheel (if there was any on there).
Do you think he would have admitted to the damage or simply walked away and not said anything?0 -
£20 per wheel? I'd want them licked clean for that.0
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He could just clean the other wheels himself lol.0
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fluffnutter wrote: »I wandered round the shops with half my hair curled and half bone-straight. That's far worse than three grubby wheels and a shiny one.
Is that not a borderline case of assault?0 -
£20 per wheel!? Jesus wept, was he totally insane? Even if he hadn't touched my car I'd have b***h-slapped him with a baguette on point of principle.0
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I'd complain to the supermarket and suggest they pay to have the others cleaned.0
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