Con artists - "Approved Garages"

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  • hucker
    hucker Posts: 112 Forumite
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    Mercdriver wrote: »
    Your test for a reputable business is that one will do what you want regardless of legality is reputable and one that won't do what you want is unreputable.

    Correct. If you went to the same garage and wanted them to use decent parts, they'd do that too. A decent garage does as the customer asks.
    Mercdriver wrote: »
    Oh, and if your cheap imported electricals that fail EU rules (don't have a genuine CE mark and number) set fire to your property and damage other property, good luck getting your house insurance paying for it.

    I don't have house insurance. We all know insurance is like playing the lottery. Pay loads of money in and virtually never get any out.
  • hucker
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    Joe_Horner wrote: »
    And?

    The MOT test was a different job, and one which (because of the rules of the scheme) they're obliged to do if you ask them to.

    Fitting spurious parts isn't part of that scheme, so they don't have to accept those jobs.

    I lost out on the free MOT retest. They therefore stole money from me, and also wasted a day of my time as I'd taken it off work for them to do the job.

    And it's not a "different job". Most garages, I take the car in, they test it, fix the problems, then give me the certificate. All ONE job.
  • hucker
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    gettingtheresometime wrote: »
    ruddy hell is this thread still going?


    As for not wearing a seat belt.....words fail me.

    I take care when I'm doing something dangerous - like having a spare chute when parachuting. The chances of needing a seatbelt are very slim if you drive properly. I did wear one for the first few years after I passed my test, until I was sure I'd never crash.
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    You want to pay cost price for the part, no more.

    You want to pay labour for the time they spend on your car, no more.

    And that's it.
    So how does the garage pay for:
    electric
    water
    rates
    rent
    tools/equipment

    storing parts/cashflow
    admin/banking
    etc etc.
  • scaredofdebt
    scaredofdebt Posts: 1,640 Forumite
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    I always give my mechanic parts to fit on my car as it's a Japanese import and he cannot source the parts more often than not.

    If the parts failed I wouldn't dream of taking legal action, unless he'd fitted them incorrectly. It would be the manufacturer I'd be going after in that case.
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  • Mercdriver
    Mercdriver Posts: 3,898 Forumite
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    hucker wrote: »
    They could have made it more believable. It was the drivers fault for not looking where she was going.

    You are beyond belief, you really are. So if the driver of a car has to emergency brake through no fault of their own, they won't get killed by the same velocity and force of the unseatbelted person behind them?

    Are you really as stupid as you sound? Please say it isn't so!
  • Mercdriver
    Mercdriver Posts: 3,898 Forumite
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    hucker wrote: »



    I don't have house insurance. We all know insurance is like playing the lottery. Pay loads of money in and virtually never get any out.

    So that would make you personally liable rather than an insurance company. Doesn't change anything at all. You don't get out of it by being uninsured. You'd be homeless and having to pay for damage to other properties as a result.
  • Mercdriver
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    almillar wrote: »
    You want to pay cost price for the part, no more.

    You want to pay labour for the time they spend on your car, no more.

    And that's it.
    So how does the garage pay for:
    electric
    water
    rates
    rent
    tools/equipment

    storing parts/cashflow
    admin/banking
    etc etc.

    Don't try talking sense to him, he is not of this world. He lives in cloud cuckoo land where everything gets done his way. :beer:
  • RichardD1970
    RichardD1970 Posts: 3,795 Forumite
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    edited 27 July 2018 at 5:11PM
    hucker wrote: »
    If I'm a passenger in a car, the driver can ask me to wear one and I'll do so. But nobody outside my car can be affected and has no business telling me to wear one.

    Ok, the car you are being driven in has to make an emergency stop. You, being the idiot (troll) you are, aren't wearing your seat belt in the back.

    You fly forward hitting the driver with force, causing the driver to swerve into the path of the oncoming HGV which then has to break hard and jackknives, smashing into a bus full of nuns escorting a children's choir all carrying baskets of kittens.

    Well done. :rotfl:
  • paddyandstumpy
    paddyandstumpy Posts: 1,486 Forumite
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    hucker wrote: »
    Yes I would and I do, I can make my own assessment of things and don't need a government from ANOTHER COUNTRY telling me what I can and cannot buy.

    The EU isn't another country...
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