How's your week been then?
Posted by: Officer DBL on 08 November 2007
I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could offload the trials and tribulations of the week. We could get issues off our chests, and maybe, just maybe, gain a few words of support from kindred spirits in return.
Here goes. My car was serviced and successfully put through the MOT in April. Since then it has been in and out of the garage as they have done their utmost to be completely ineffective in locating, diagnosing and providing a remedy to a persistent droning noise it has been making since the service. In the last three weeks they have replaced:
All four tyres
Front ns hub bearing
Both front track rods
Rear suspension ball joints and bushes
A complete front bumper
A complete front wing
The cause of the persistent drone has finally been attributed to the front tyres, and replacing them has fixed the problem. That is the good news. The rest is not so good.
The rear tyres had to be replaced as they had gone bald on the inside edge due to the rear suspension being worn; rear suspension which, whilst spotted at the service, was not picked up as an issue at the MOT. The garage advised I could leave the work until 2008 when it would be needed to pass the next MOT. In the meantime it would not cause any problems with the car. At all.
The track rods were replaced free of charge by the garage as they were embarrassed to admit that when the rear suspension was done and rear tyres replaced, they forgot to do the promised wheel alignment, so didn’t notice the seized track rod ends.
The ns hub bearing was replaced as the senior technician thought he could hear a rumble which he had misinterpreted as my persistent drone. The obvious solution here was not the corrective solution.
The replacement of the seized track rod ends corrected a steering wheel misalignment, but caused the persistent drone to be louder and the steering wheel to shimmy when braking. In frustration I took the specialist technician for a drive in the car to make sure he could hear the drone I was banging on about, and to experience the steering wheel shimmy.
The garage rang me on Friday to tell me they had solved the problems. A new set of front tyres was the solution, and both the drone and the shimmy had gone. Delighted I looked forward to picking up my drone free/shimmy free car. That was last Friday. I still don’t have my car back. Why? The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed the mention of the new front bumper and wing earlier in the post.
When the garage was returning my car to the customer parking section having kindly washed it, another customer reversed into my car, demolishing the front bumper and wing. The garage said not to worry; they would put things right at their expense.
Today they rang to say my car was ready. The new bumper is nice, they said, and the wing is sorted out, they said. The new bits have fresher paint, they said, so they may look a little different to the rest of the car, they said.
I am now looking forward to an interesting conversation with the garage this evening.
Kind regards
Rob
Here goes. My car was serviced and successfully put through the MOT in April. Since then it has been in and out of the garage as they have done their utmost to be completely ineffective in locating, diagnosing and providing a remedy to a persistent droning noise it has been making since the service. In the last three weeks they have replaced:
All four tyres
Front ns hub bearing
Both front track rods
Rear suspension ball joints and bushes
A complete front bumper
A complete front wing
The cause of the persistent drone has finally been attributed to the front tyres, and replacing them has fixed the problem. That is the good news. The rest is not so good.
The rear tyres had to be replaced as they had gone bald on the inside edge due to the rear suspension being worn; rear suspension which, whilst spotted at the service, was not picked up as an issue at the MOT. The garage advised I could leave the work until 2008 when it would be needed to pass the next MOT. In the meantime it would not cause any problems with the car. At all.
The track rods were replaced free of charge by the garage as they were embarrassed to admit that when the rear suspension was done and rear tyres replaced, they forgot to do the promised wheel alignment, so didn’t notice the seized track rod ends.
The ns hub bearing was replaced as the senior technician thought he could hear a rumble which he had misinterpreted as my persistent drone. The obvious solution here was not the corrective solution.
The replacement of the seized track rod ends corrected a steering wheel misalignment, but caused the persistent drone to be louder and the steering wheel to shimmy when braking. In frustration I took the specialist technician for a drive in the car to make sure he could hear the drone I was banging on about, and to experience the steering wheel shimmy.
The garage rang me on Friday to tell me they had solved the problems. A new set of front tyres was the solution, and both the drone and the shimmy had gone. Delighted I looked forward to picking up my drone free/shimmy free car. That was last Friday. I still don’t have my car back. Why? The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed the mention of the new front bumper and wing earlier in the post.
When the garage was returning my car to the customer parking section having kindly washed it, another customer reversed into my car, demolishing the front bumper and wing. The garage said not to worry; they would put things right at their expense.
Today they rang to say my car was ready. The new bumper is nice, they said, and the wing is sorted out, they said. The new bits have fresher paint, they said, so they may look a little different to the rest of the car, they said.
I am now looking forward to an interesting conversation with the garage this evening.
Kind regards
Rob
Spend 5 hours trying to install a HP printer to Vista - printer wouldn't talk to software and no one seemed to be talking to the beautifully downloadeed Vista com(bastard)patable driver.
the tech guy from my wife's work (tis her printer) has spend much time also not being able to install it. Plug and Play - its the future
Printer still doesnt work..................... for once I can appreciate the Mac Ladds smirking
Diccus
the tech guy from my wife's work (tis her printer) has spend much time also not being able to install it. Plug and Play - its the future
Printer still doesnt work..................... for once I can appreciate the Mac Ladds smirking
Diccus
Graeme's post really does put everything into perspective, very sad to hear of your loss.
Anyway, my little problem ealier today is really very insignificant by comparison......... Decided to get into work early today as I had plenty to be getting on with. Instead of spending this time in a productive way, I had to clear yet another pile of vomit from outside my doors - Yuk! Joys of retail! It took a good 15 minutes
The problem seems to have become significantly worse in the past six months even though we now have a street cleaning technician dedicated to Hotel St and four adjoining streets provided by the council supposedly responsible for keeping the area really nice and clean. So why is it that I always seem to end up doing the cleaning
Well, tomorrow is another day.............
Best regards,
Peter
Anyway, my little problem ealier today is really very insignificant by comparison......... Decided to get into work early today as I had plenty to be getting on with. Instead of spending this time in a productive way, I had to clear yet another pile of vomit from outside my doors - Yuk! Joys of retail! It took a good 15 minutes
The problem seems to have become significantly worse in the past six months even though we now have a street cleaning technician dedicated to Hotel St and four adjoining streets provided by the council supposedly responsible for keeping the area really nice and clean. So why is it that I always seem to end up doing the cleaning
Well, tomorrow is another day.............
Best regards,
Peter
While my travel agent wife is in Canada for 10 days I am it for the kids entertainment..
My son is an "accident report form waiting to be signed" - Today we are bouncing on the trampoline and he manages to kick me in the mouth, bleeding teeth result.
Shortly after he manages to damage his shin on a concrete block, bounce along on one foot towards the comforting arms of dad & smack into his sister on the way...smashing his mouth into her head, spliting his top lip (more blood, but his this time
) and making his sister cry.
I comforted both until the crying ceased and shortly after, they stopped crying too.
Earlier this week he has cut his foot and big toe in separate incidents, lost a finger nail after crushing it between 2 concrete blocks and generally had a bad time of it.
His front teeth are slowly getting some white back into them after he face planted the stairs a month ago, loosening 4 teeth (lots of blood that time) & splitting his lip so badly that he should of had stiches.
He is 4, I am 43 and I wonder if he will make it to 10 at this rate....
I am looking forward to my wife returning so that, at least, some of this shite will happen on her shift.
My son is an "accident report form waiting to be signed" - Today we are bouncing on the trampoline and he manages to kick me in the mouth, bleeding teeth result.
Shortly after he manages to damage his shin on a concrete block, bounce along on one foot towards the comforting arms of dad & smack into his sister on the way...smashing his mouth into her head, spliting his top lip (more blood, but his this time
) and making his sister cry.I comforted both until the crying ceased and shortly after, they stopped crying too.
Earlier this week he has cut his foot and big toe in separate incidents, lost a finger nail after crushing it between 2 concrete blocks and generally had a bad time of it.
His front teeth are slowly getting some white back into them after he face planted the stairs a month ago, loosening 4 teeth (lots of blood that time) & splitting his lip so badly that he should of had stiches.
He is 4, I am 43 and I wonder if he will make it to 10 at this rate....
I am looking forward to my wife returning so that, at least, some of this shite will happen on her shift.
quote:Originally posted by Macker:
His front teeth are slowly getting some white back into them after he face planted the stairs a month ago, loosening 4 teeth (lots of blood that time) & splitting his lip so badly that he should of had stiches.
He is 4, I am 43 and I wonder if he will make it to 10 at this rate....
I am looking forward to my wife returning so that, at least, some of this shite will happen on her shift.
Ah yes, I have the T-shirt on this one too!
Spent much of Tuesday morning sitting an a dentists surgery in Wellingborough awaiting for a couple of X-ray results and for a couple of dental surgeons to come to a conclusion on my 15 year old son's front tooth........
He too head-butted some stairs at the age of 6 as I remember and loosening both front teeth. Age 13 and thankfully wearing a gum-shield he recieved a hockey ball to the face, loosening one of his front teeth again
To say he had a fat lip was a but of an understatement......it looked more like a tomato! Age 15 now, he received an elbow to the very same tooth again while togging up for another hockey game before he had his gum shield in as he wasn't even on the pitch! Macker, I know just how you feel.... and yes, it doesn't seem to get any easier as they grow up
Kind regards,
Peter