Just collected second hand car today and have a few problems

force_ten

roonaldo wrote: »

In the time it has taken to for the OP to write the post and read responses the bulb could have been changed!

how do you know?

it could be a french car where you have to take half the car apart to change a bulb and the cost of labour runs into the hundreds to change a 10p bulb

harveybobbles

I get sick to death of reading stuff on here like this.. !!!!!! read the handbook, play with buttons - its all part of the fun of getting a new car.

People like the OP make me so glag I'm not in the motor trade any more.

CHR15

Reminds me of the BMW phone in complaint "My car won't go at night"

In the daytime I put it in D for Daytime and it goes fine.

At night I put it in N for night-time and it won't move, I want my money back.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9t3XBXmtgQ

FiremanDave

CHR15 wrote: »

Reminds me of the BMW phone in complaint "My car won't go at night"

In the daytime I put it in D for Daytime and it goes fine.

At night I put it in N for night-time and it won't move, I want my money back.

Not to mention putting it in R for race mode and hitting the car behind.

He's already got a thread running.

harveybobbles

M3, Lexus IS250, A3TDi, Yaris would be fault free..

uniqu3

Not to interrupt the usual witch-hunting that comes with residents of internet forums, but it seems me to that the problem is a little more serious.

The OP was raising the issue of 'no interior light'. Even though this might seem pretty straightforward, I'd suggest his response, when told it could be switched off was:

"Thanks, that may be the case as it is unlikely to be a bulb as i guess more than one light should come on"


From that, I guess that it could well be the case that there are no interior lights at all - could well be the instrument cluster.

If it is, that's a bit issue (some might say dangerous, if it impedes the ability to read the speedo or causes a distraction when trying to do so).


I'm also sure the dealer wasn't open at 11.40pm when he posted, so although he could have (and perhaps did) ring the dealer the next day, he's just asked a simple question after paying a fair few thousand for a car that's faulty.

It's just as helpful as saying to someone "who cares if you're in debt, shouldn't have been so stupid with money", surely?

FiremanDave

uniqu3 wrote: »

Not to interrupt the usual witch-hunting that comes with residents of internet forums, but it seems me to that the problem is a little more serious.

The OP was raising the issue of 'no interior light'. Even though this might seem pretty straightforward, I'd suggest his response, when told it could be switched off was:

"Thanks, that may be the case as it is unlikely to be a bulb as i guess more than one light should come on"


From that, I guess that it could well be the case that there are no interior lights at all - could well be the instrument cluster.

If it is, that's a bit issue (some might say dangerous, if it impedes the ability to read the speedo or causes a distraction when trying to do so).


I'm also sure the dealer wasn't open at 11.40pm when he posted, so although he could have (and perhaps did) ring the dealer the next day, he's just asked a simple question after paying a fair few thousand for a car that's faulty.

It's just as helpful as saying to someone "who cares if you're in debt, shouldn't have been so stupid with money", surely?

Well maybe he could try turning the brightness up?

uniqu3

FiremanDave wrote: »

Well maybe he could try turning the brightness up?

Point is, at no point past the first few posts did anyone attempt to understand the problem or help - it was all a load of assumptive and/or facetious posts after that point.

Considering the 'brightness' of the backlighting on the controls and instruments is normally only affected by the lights being on, it's less likely that a dealer would turn this down (wouldn't achieve anything, tbh). The premise seems to be that people thought he was talking about the courtesy light and decided to arm the keyboards based on that.

FiremanDave

uniqu3 wrote: »

Point is, at no point past the first few posts did anyone attempt to understand the problem or help - it was all a load of assumptive and/or facetious posts after that point.

Considering the 'brightness' of the backlighting on the controls and instruments is normally only affected by the lights being on, it's less likely that a dealer would turn this down (wouldn't achieve anything, tbh). The premise seems to be that people thought he was talking about the courtesy light and decided to arm the keyboards based on that.

Who said the dealer turned it down. Now you're jumping to conclusions.

OddballJamie

force_ten wrote: »

how do you know?

it could be a french car where you have to take half the car apart to change a bulb and the cost of labour runs into the hundreds to change a 10p bulb

Majority of French cars are easy for changing bulbs, being as most of the trim is already hanging off.