Wifes car dripping liquid

Grumpy_chap

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It turns out that there is more to this - than I was first told
To start with - my wife saw a pool of water under the car - with liquid dripping from the centre of the car - she decided that it may be risky driving home and asked another driver for advice - he told her that it could be condensation from the air con but that he had never seen so much before - this got her worried and she phoned Greenflag who advised her  to stay put and someone would be with her within the hour - this did not happen
My wife got fed up waiting after nearly two hours and decided to move the car - to give her a better view of the carpark entrance.
It was at this point that the car started to make a weird noise - she thought, from  the rear end - she phoned Greenflag to ask for an update and to inform them of this additional problem - They told her not to worry and that the first call had meant that a recovery lorry had been called anyway and it was stuck in traffic on the motorway about 30 miles away
Eventually the recovery lorry arrived after almost 3 hours - the driver started the car and drove it around and couldn't pin down the root of the noise, my wife drove it and the noise was still there. So he removed the rear brake drums and they were both clear - he decided that it must be suspension and got the car on the back of the lorry and took it and my wife to the nearest main dealers who took one look and told her "wheelbearing" - it had completely disintergrated on the left hand side - they are replacing both rear bearings  today.
My wife then informed me that she had hit a particularly vicious speed bump on the way to Sainsburys when  a car coming towards her gave her no choice - and there was a noise from under the car.
As for the liquid - it appears to have been  condensation although the radiator level in the bottle had dropped from the maximum mark - which, they normally fill it to at its last full service less than 2 months ago !
Women -  you can't live with them .........

While the OP & wife were not so pleased with the time GreenFlag took to arrive, they certainly put extra effort in once they were on site. 

In my experience, break down services always seem to either do something very interim just enough to allow the vehicle to be  driven to a garage for permanent repair, or very quickly decide it is a transport truck required.  Maybe the "safe" location of a supermarket car park meant the mechanic was willing to do more than they'd do at the side of the road.  Certainly, I've never seen the breakdown mechanics do something as much as remove the brake drums.

I've never been with GreenFlag, but this level of service does seem to be a positive big "thumbs up" for them.

AdrianC

Grumpy_chap said:

While the OP & wife were not so pleased with the time GreenFlag took to arrive, they certainly put extra effort in once they were on site. 

In my experience, break down services always seem to either do something very interim just enough to allow the vehicle to be  driven to a garage for permanent repair, or very quickly decide it is a transport truck required.  Maybe the "safe" location of a supermarket car park meant the mechanic was willing to do more than they'd do at the side of the road.  Certainly, I've never seen the breakdown mechanics do something as much as remove the brake drums.

I've never been with GreenFlag, but this level of service does seem to be a positive big "thumbs up" for them.

Credit where it's due, not GF - but the actual mechanic who did the work.

GF don't have their own fairly small recovery fleet, they use subcontractors - and those subbies will normally work for most of the non-own-fleet recovery insurers.

https://www.directlinegroup.co.uk/en/brands/green-flag.html
"We don't have a fleet of branded vans, but efficiently utilise a nationwide network of over 2,300 vehicles and mechanics"

sheramber

When we used Greenflag   they called out a local garage.

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sheramber said:

When we used Greenflag   they called out a local garage.

They never have their own vehicles

Ibrahim5

The boss might have a company car. Probably don't own it though.

sheramber

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sheramber said:

When we used Greenflag   they called out a local garage.

They never have their own vehicles

Which they tell you.

It suited us living rurally  other breakdown companies ( AA, RAC) used local garages as they did not have local mobile units.

Greenflag were much cheaper than the other two.

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sheramber said:

Deleted_User said:

sheramber said:

When we used Greenflag   they called out a local garage.

They never have their own vehicles

Which they tell you.

It suited us living rurally  other breakdown companies ( AA, RAC) used local garages as they did not have local mobile units.

Greenflag were much cheaper than the other two.

Autoaid is even cheaper