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Strider590

Soubrette wrote: »

I simply cannot be an expert on everything

"The wise man knows he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all"

^^ Chinese proverb

It's not about knowing everything (because nobody can know everything), it's about being willing to learn as much as you need to know and I guess also being able to identify who genuinely knows enough for you to learn from.

Some of my most recent ventures include plumbing, plastering, landscaping and growing my own veg. All stuff i'd never done before, I just apply some logic, think about it, Google it and go. I'd put as much effort into learning to bake cakes as I would into learning nuclear science, to me the perceived complexity of the subject is not an obstacle, the hazards are different, but if I get it wrong I still get burned either way.

TBH, If I listed all the skills I have gained without formal qualifications, i'd hit this posts character limit.

I don't know everything, but if I need to learn i'll come back tomorrow with twice as much knowledge as today.

colino

KF rely on people not knowing about cars and position themselves to be more accessible than other garages for the convenience of users. Unfortunately tie that to high targets and domination of the sector, they rarely come out as choirboys. On the other hand, for non-trade people with run of the mill, volume cars, there is little to beat their stocking and price of full exhausts.
Best for drivers to get to know their friendly, local garage. Use them or lose them.
I probably feel more sanguine about KF in this case, because it was yet another lazy, repetitive, sensationalist piece of rubbish pumped out by the BBC to fill a time slot.

Strider590

colino wrote: »

Best for drivers to get to know their friendly, local garage. Use them or lose them.

I think this is right, people feel safe in the familiarity of using a company that splashes adverts all over the TV, but it should be the exact opposite.
Give the old school backstreet garage a chance, if they struggle to get you booked in, they're probably one of those local secret hidden gems. Kinda like the tyre place I use, they're cheaper than the best online prices.

Horizon81

colino wrote: »

I probably feel more sanguine about KF in this case, because it was yet another lazy, repetitive, sensationalist piece of rubbish pumped out by the BBC to fill a time slot.

Couldn't agree more. Even my other half (who knows jack all about cars) said is this programme for thick people when they were banging on about car insurance and how you should shop around and not just accept your renewal.

These programmes are for the 90% of the population that Strider mentions above. The unintelligent basically, who want to be spoon fed everything rather than having the gumption to take some responsibility for their life. Ignorance is not an excuse.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Good post by Strider no 8 above, agree with every word.

What never ceases to amaze me is just how easily our younger gneration are duped.

Oldies tend not to be internet savvy and may well have been bought up in a time when a mans word meant something, those oldies are often prime targets for the sharks of this world, some the really vulnerable fall prey others don't.

Meanwhile the youngsters whilst owning every internet device know to man seem incapable of researching something BEFORE taking the plunge, instead they come whining to places like this when it all goes wrong...then they look on the net and 30 seconds later find thousands of identical reports of fraud and sharp practice and seem amazed that the sharp suited slime didn't tell them he was in the business of selling snake oil.

Maybe the oldies in wisdom if not age have got it right after all, maybe they go a lot by their gut feelings, spivs invariably look and sound like spivs or if it quacks and waddles its a duck.

Maybe its only when life has kicked us in the cobblers a few hundred times that this wisdom comes, from politicians to the media to salesmen and suitors they're all at it, they tell you what you want to hear to draw you in and to extract something from you, money votes power sex.

The truth you have to look carefully for throughout life, spivs wide boys scum and gold diggers do not have their titles tattoed on the their foreheads, unfortunately neither do decent honourable people.

Horizon81

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

The truth you have to look carefully for throughout life, spivs wide boys scum and gold diggers do not have their titles tattoed on the their foreheads, unfortunately neither do decent honourable people.

"Its your money, their tricks"! I wonder what idiot came up with that title for the tv programme. I'd much prefer it if they used your words "How to avoid spivs wide boys scum and gold diggers".

It was the sort of tv prog that makes you wonder why you pay your licence fee. It's one thing reporting these things but presenting them so a child would understand is another. You could almost see that older newsreader woman wincing at having to spiel such drivel. The lass with the big chin, on the other hand, lapped it up.

Strider590

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Maybe its only when life has kicked us in the cobblers a few hundred times that this wisdom comes, from politicians to the media to salesmen and suitors they're all at it, they tell you what you want to hear to draw you in and to extract something from you, money votes power sex.

The truth you have to look carefully for throughout life, spivs wide boys scum and gold diggers do not have their titles tattoed on the their foreheads, unfortunately neither do decent honourable people.

It's that old "gift of the gab" thing, chatty people seem trustworthy, they sell cars, they all seem to work in all the professions that rip people off.

TradePro

Horizon81 wrote: »

The lass with the big chin, on the other hand, lapped it up.

Haha, flattery will get you nowhere!