thecirsch

A few years ago my then g/f and I ordered a new Peugeot 306 diesel. We found out that if we put down 50% of the total price, we could get 0% finance if we could pay it off within the year. We agreed to that and we also agreed that they would take her Escort as part of the deposit, he quoted us a BRILLIANT trade in price.

When we got the paperwork through we checked it and found that there were inconsistancies in the amount we were going to pay, which amounted to nearly a 1000.00 more than we had agreed to pay. We returned to the salesman, who admitted he had made an 'error'. He said that it would be corrected. True to his word a few days later we got amended paperwork through, again they weren't correct. We returned and spoke with the salesman, who then admitted he had screwed up when he had priced the Escort. At this point, some 3 weeks after the original order was made, we found out that he hadn't ordered the new car at all. Naturally we spoke to the dealership Manager, who stated that he would 'deal' with the salesman. We got a CD player at cost put in the car as part of an apology. The car arrived 5 days later then was originally due, we had a loan 406 for those 5 days.

The moral of this story, check your paperwork thoroughly and ensure the car has actually been ordered!!

Senior_AP

True - but someone else has gone through the hassle of sorting it out for you.....

Kev_turbo

repairing of new cars is a major business. One of my friends owns a car repair place and will now only deal with dealers on new cars.

Damage includes

Scrapped bumpers
Scratched panels
Brake fluid marks on roofs of the ones on the bottom deck of transporters

Loads of cars go out to people with fresh paint, filler, extra stickers to cover marks etc (a good one used by loads of dealers).

Kev.

maxim

Right, i'm going to find out the exact day the car is going to come to the dealer and watch it come of the lorry... Might even sleep there and make sure no-one steals the alloys etc...

gregjd

My brother worked at a BMW/Porsche/Mini dealership in the US during his Uni vacation. On his first day he managed to reverse an X5 off the trailer into two other X5's that were parked (all brand new).. He thought he'd be out on his **** but it was laughed off as it happens all the time apparently..In fact they congratulated him on "popping his cherry"!!

Reffro

By the way, Skoda's don't sit in fields, they sit on tarmac at Grimsby Docks......

LMRnav2

and if you drive down the M180 from Grimsby past s****horpe you will see thousands of VW's parked up outdoors, and then there's the JamJar/Dixon motors place on the M18 where there are a load of cars stored.

maxim

yeah skoda's come into Grimsby,

Ringpeas

Very few for sale around here though, they are like hens teeth.

maxim

I want me car now!!!!!

Ringpeas

I suggest a trip to Grimsby, bring a balaclava, set of wire cutters and some raw meat.

Take your pick

bigsinky

@maxim

not this one it won't

cheers

sinky

Ringpeas

How much?

bigsinky

next one on my list m8..............NOT. don't want to turn this into another "expensive watch" thread but i did like the look of the breitling navitimer cosmonaute.

C

If I was at the dealer I wouldn't tell you

I've seen no end of stuff done - brand new cars seriously abused (burnouts, holding them on the limiters for miles, handbrake turns round our compound, some hardcore racing)...

Cars getting squashed on transporters (Corsa needed a new front end, astra fell off, squashed roof on a Vectra)..

Cars crashed at the docks & being held up whilst being fixed...

Doesn't matter if it's new or used - if the dealership gives the staff used company cars, they get abused just as much. I did a placement for Vauxhall & had to work in a dealership when I saw all this...

I virtually wrote off a VX220 which to my knowledge is still being driven today, I didn't really treat my 'company cars' with any respect as they were not not to worry about & we only had them for 3 months at a time before they were sold into the dealer network for them to then sell them onto the public...

Crashed a few new shape Vectra's in the snow, fix them up & sell them on...

It's not just the dealers, half the time they don't know whats happened to the car before it gets to them

It's scared me for life buying off a dealer now!