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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Nino on 07 March 2013, 11:38
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Hey guys, this hasn't happened to me BUT recently my friend's dad found out that a garage that he put his supra twin turbo into for some work had taken his supra out "racing" and used it for there personal use.
Hearing storys like this do make you wonder... My car is going into a garage for some body work/spray work in may and im alittle worried they may use my car when they shouldn't (not the same garage) so beside taking a picture of your mileage before you drop it off what action would you/can you take if this was to ever happen?
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Fit an in car camera :smiley:
http://www.blackvue.co.uk/
I saw a thread on Piston Heads last year where a similar thing happened and the bloke lost his job and I think got done for theft or something along those lines. He also got done for speeding too!!
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Would live that but don't have that kind of money for that device althou would come in handy if u crashed ad it was not your fault.
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Fit an in car camera :smiley:
http://www.blackvue.co.uk/
I saw a thread on Piston Heads last year where a similar thing happened and the bloke lost his job and I think got done for theft or something along those lines. He also got done for speeding too!!
think i saw this too was it a vauxhall vxr8 or something :smiley:
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Would live that but don't have that kind of money for that device althou would come in handy if u crashed ad it was not your fault.
get them to note the mileage down while you are there,an tell them why if they ask any decent place wont mind :smiley:
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depending on the work being some, sometimes its needed for mechainc to take the car out for a test drive?
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ide just note the milage down/take a picture with the time stamp on a camera.
if it comes back with anything more than 10 miles or so on ide start questioning it, as said though, sometimes they need to drive it to see if the problems fixed.
someone i used to work with had his lasses car in a garage, rang up a few days later and they were saying they had to order parts in and would be a few more days, when he got it back he was noticing it was crabbing across the road a little, then noticed some of the panels werent matching up properly and were slightly different colour, went back and asked about it, after a while he found out that one of the lads had taken it out and crashed it, then tried to repair it by replacing panels ect. but he missed the bent chassis making it slightly drift accross the road! car was a wright off and the garage owner said he would not pay out however would fire who ever it was who crashed it and they would have to pay him back, noone would grass him up so noone got the sack and he didnt get any money. think he was on about taking them to small claims court but havent seen him for a while so dont know whats happend with it.... safe to say that garage lost a customer :D
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Fit an in car camera :smiley:
http://www.blackvue.co.uk/
I saw a thread on Piston Heads last year where a similar thing happened and the bloke lost his job and I think got done for theft or something along those lines. He also got done for speeding too!!
think i saw this too was it a vauxhall vxr8 or something :smiley:
Something along those lines; bloke was seen speeding down the motorway at approx 140mph!!
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the body shop can use dolly's so dont give them the keys.
me and a mate dropped his car off at a local spanner monkeys. got overtaken by it on way back from garage :rolleyes:
went back to garage to await spanner monkey. garage said he was on a test drive making sure it was fixed alright. mumbled something when we pointed out it was dropped off less than 10 mins previously.
Work was f.o.c and i guess they sacked the little scrote - never went back
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How did he find out they were racing his car
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Was it Kwik-Fit who had the biggest tool- who ended up killing a lad on a 'test' drive?
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This was also done with an Evo, in car footage is very interesting when they go past a school. The car was also taken out AFTER they realised there was a problem with the engine which in turn completely destroyed it
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Her you all go, make a cuppa first though
http://www.lancerregister.com//showthread.php?t=436437&page=57
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I once picked up a local mechanic whom I know through work (motor factors). He was a bit shaken, and I couldnt understand why he was stood at the roadside with no car in sight.
He works for a Fiat dealership and was test driving a Punto after changing the brakes.
He couldnt stop at a roundabout and flew straight over it and into a ditch. You couldnt see the car from the road!
TBF the dealership sorted the customer out with another car at their cost. The mechanic is still working for them.
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Few years ago I owned a rover 620turbo that apart from a 40mm drop and 17"vittese rims was a bit of a sleeper, I had fitted a front mount cooler a t2& turbo off a sunny gtir CAI ect and was running best part of around 240-50 bhp and had run regular 1/4s at pod in the mid 14s.
Anyway I took it to have new tyres fitted at f1 centre and trotted off to B&Q on the industrial estate while they did it. A hour later I came back and no car guy said he's just took it out for a road test hour later manager getting worried and phones guy, and then vanishes into into office to continue chat. Comes out and says he's stuck in traffic there's been a accident 10 mins away.
30mins pass guy comes back and says car needs tracking its pulling to the left and one of your wheels is buckled. Bollox I say as car has been spot on for months and wheels where perfect, after lots of arguing turns out he had underestimated the car booted it off the island car hit boost span front wheels up and he twited kerb knocking tracking out and killing rim, there head office claimed it was my fault for not informing them car was modified
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Fitters at 'tyre centres' slot in just below snot in the evolutionary scale.
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Her you all go, make a cuppa first though
http://www.lancerregister.com//showthread.php?t=436437&page=57
You fecker for posting. I've lost close to 24 hours in reading that.
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Her you all go, make a cuppa first though
http://www.lancerregister.com//showthread.php?t=436437&page=57
You fecker for posting. I've lost close to 24 hours in reading that.
Ditto!!
Hell of a read mind and I'm only half way through......
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Few years ago I owned a rover 620turbo that apart from a 40mm drop and 17"vittese rims was a bit of a sleeper, I had fitted a front mount cooler a t2& turbo off a sunny gtir CAI ect and was running best part of around 240-50 bhp and had run regular 1/4s at pod in the mid 14s.
Anyway I took it to have new tyres fitted at f1 centre and trotted off to B&Q on the industrial estate while they did it. A hour later I came back and no car guy said he's just took it out for a road test hour later manager getting worried and phones guy, and then vanishes into into office to continue chat. Comes out and says he's stuck in traffic there's been a accident 10 mins away.
30mins pass guy comes back and says car needs tracking its pulling to the left and one of your wheels is buckled. Bollox I say as car has been spot on for months and wheels where perfect, after lots of arguing turns out he had underestimated the car booted it off the island car hit boost span front wheels up and he twited kerb knocking tracking out and killing rim, there head office claimed it was my fault for not informing them car was modified
What was the outcome of this? and I have never heared of anyone taking a car for a test drive after fitting tyres......
And that bloody topic! still readin it!!! lol
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Her you all go, make a cuppa first though
http://www.lancerregister.com//showthread.php?t=436437&page=57
thanks, know how im going to spend the rest of my working day :grin: