Son's car MOT advisories - garage ignoring us

mollycat

EdGasketTheSecond wrote: »

£4K for a first car? Mine was £25 and lasted a year. SInce then I've never spent more than £1K on a car in over 40 yrs motoring.

Done it twice; regretted it both times

OP is annoyed because they feel they have been lied to. Good luck to your son at the start of his driving carreer BTW

IMHO it's borderline not worth pushing; advisories that are not obvious to the layperson or not subject to the type of check you would do prior to purchasing a vehicle would be a different kettle of fish.

Eg...brake pipes, suspension, oil leak etc; the lie is much more relevant and I'd want them rectified.

Tyres that should have been inspected, headlight aim that involves twiddling a knob and a shoogly bracket, not so much.

In the big bad ocean of "garage chicanery", this is swimming in the shallowest of waters. (IMVHO)

Jirmette1

mollycat wrote: »

Done it twice; regretted it both times

OP is annoyed because they feel they have been lied to. Good luck to your son at the start of his driving carreer BTW

IMHO it's borderline not worth pushing; advisories that are not obvious to the layperson or not subject to the type of check you would do prior to purchasing a vehicle would be a different kettle of fish.

Eg...brake pipes, suspension, oil leak etc; the lie is much more relevant and I'd want them rectified.

Tyres that should have been inspected, headlight aim that involves twiddling a knob and a shoogly bracket, not so much.

In the big bad ocean of "garage chicanery", this is swimming in the shallowest of waters. (IMVHO)

Thank you for your help

Clive_Woody

Jirmette1 wrote: »

I've managed to seek advice elsewhere, best to just ignore the rude, unhelpful people.

Most people on here are trying to be helpful, but some seem lacking in social skills or come across a little blunt in their written responses.

Being a moneysaving website there is a clique who take great joy telling everyone they never spent more than tuppence ha'penny on a car and also fully inspect their car three times a day (minimum) to ensure it's roadworthy and are utterly dumbfounded that everyone else doesn't take the same approach to cars. They aren't shy about stating this at every available opportunity......regardless of relevance to the discussion.

Good luck to your son for his driving test :money:

loskie

The advisories may be fixed the will not disappear off the mot history if they are because the car DOES NOT need a re test.
Ignore the headlight one it's irrelevant.
The tyres do they look new?
The exhaust just ask them to fix it or confirm it has been done.
You seem to be being over protective and getting in a flap over nothing .

Complete lunacy a boy getting a car before his 17th bday you are asking for trouble with unaccompanied learner driving etc.
If the tyres have not been done best getting money knocked off rather than let the garage fit the cheapest ones possible.

Jirmette1

Clive_Woody wrote: »

Most people on here are trying to be helpful, but some seem lacking in social skills or come across a little blunt in their written responses.

Being a moneysaving website there is a clique who take great joy telling everyone they never spent more than tuppence ha'penny on a car and also fully inspect their car three times a day (minimum) to ensure it's roadworthy and are utterly dumbfounded that everyone else doesn't take the same approach to cars. They aren't shy about stating this at every available opportunity......regardless of relevance to the discussion.

Good luck to your son for his driving test :money:

:rotfl::rotfl: Thank you

Jirmette1

loskie wrote: »

You seem to be being over protective and getting in a flap over nothing .

No I just have zero tolerance for rudeness. There's never a need for it.

loskie wrote: »

Complete lunacy a boy getting a car before his 17th bday you are asking for trouble with unaccompanied learner driving etc.

Thank you for your opinion, interestingly I'm not an idiot who would let an underaged driver out on the roads hence why I said A FEW DAYS before his 17th birthday, it was actually 2 days before and don't worry before I'm accused of not insuring it as I managed to engage my tiny girl brain and think of that also.

couriervanman

Clive_Woody wrote: »

Most people on here are trying to be helpful, but some seem lacking in social skills or come across a little blunt in their written responses.

Being a moneysaving website there is a clique who take great joy telling everyone they never spent more than tuppence ha'penny on a car and also fully inspect their car three times a day (minimum) to ensure it's roadworthy and are utterly dumbfounded that everyone else doesn't take the same approach to cars. They aren't shy about stating this at every available opportunity......regardless of relevance to the discussion.

Good luck to your son for his driving test :money:

And lots of people prefer straight too the point as appose the touchy feely approach

AdrianC

I would say "hugs are for Mumsnet", but... <wince> Have you ever looked there?

Jirmette1

couriervanman wrote: »

And lots of people prefer straight too the point as appose the touchy feely approach

Absolutely fine when it's appropriate and polite, but when you're the expert and someone comes on asking for advice admitting they don't know, there are ways of talking to them.

There's to the point, then there's downright rude and unnecessary. They're different.

born_again

I emailed the garage on 31st December - no reply. Filled out their online email a few days later - no reply.

At the weekend my husband spoke to someone who advised that the car should not have gone out without these being rectified and promised to call him yesterday morning to book the car in. No call.

Do we have any rights here please and how would you advise going forwards?

Well emails over news year? Were they open?

Why not simply drive the car back and speak to them? Stops all this "Not responding" nonsense...

Nice bit of driving practise for your son