Con artists - "Approved Garages"

Nasqueron

hucker wrote: »

There's no reason we can't leave the EU instantly. Anything else is our government !!!!!footing around.

There isn't, but if we do our economy will collapse under WTO tariffs and no trade deal and all the British workers in the EU will be stuck in limbo, hence the negotiation

hucker

Mercdriver wrote: »

I would describe someone that would fit a part that might make a car more dangerous to me and other road users as far worse than a cowboy garage.

Why are you assuming the part I supplied is dangerous? Pessimism can be cured you know....

hucker

Joe_Horner wrote: »

What??? You're one of trump's Alt Fact babies, aren't you?

Of COURSE many people know what the law says - it's there in black and white on those links I gave.

Do you not understand what the site legislation.gov is? It's not opinion, it's not interpretation, it's a factual record of what the law says. it's even more reliable than wikipedia or infowars!

Yes I'd vote Trump if I was in America. He's on the way to cleaning up their country.

And no, laws are not fact, they're all interpreted, this is why we have lawyers arguing for months in cases.

hucker

Mercdriver wrote: »

Indeed. Notwithstanding this, ignorance of the law is of course no defence.

When we have 15,000 laws nobody can be expected to know them all. All we can do is what we believe to be right.

hucker

wgl2014 wrote: »

I guess the moral of the story is ask for a quote and if not happy then go elsewhere?

Really not too difficult!

Except garages won't do that. They always add on something for an unexpected fault or something that was more difficult than they thought. Customers have zero protection from these thieves, all we can do is only get ripped off once, go elsewhere next year, and hope that garage loses enough repeat customers that they go out of business.

hucker

davidwood681 wrote: »

What do you do for a living?
Do you get paid or do you do it for free?

I don't want the garage to do it for free, I wish to pay them a reasonable labour charge. The new garage I now use charges by the hour and doesn't markup on parts. I pay them for what they do, not random amounts of money added onto reselling an item for four times it's price.

hucker

George_Michael wrote: »

You don't have to ask.
Under EU & UK legislation, any work carried out must last a reasonable time and must be of a satisfactory standard and if it isn't, you have up to 6 years (in England) to pursue the business for a resolution.
This is a statutory right and you can't sign this right away.

If the garage fitted your parts and they failed in a year or two, there would be nothing stopping you taking legal action against them.

Yes there would. I supplied the part, the part failed. The supplier of the part is at fault.

hucker

Nasqueron wrote: »

There isn't, but if we do our economy will collapse under WTO tariffs and no trade deal and all the British workers in the EU will be stuck in limbo, hence the negotiation

It's about time ALL governments stopped charging import duties.

Mercdriver

hucker wrote: »

Then that would be up to the people sat in front, nobody else. I want laws to protect me from others, not myself or immediate family etc.

Are you sure you're not on a wind up? If you don't belt up in the back and there is a sudden stop, you end up crushing the person in front, possibly to death. The person in the front won't be able to do sod all about it.

Are you really that thick not to know that?

Mercdriver

hucker wrote: »

Yes there would. I supplied the part, the part failed. The supplier of the part is at fault.

So if the part that you supplied fails and someone is killed as a result, do you have liability insurance or the collateral to cover the damages as a result? That's the reason for the type approval.