Joys of BMW 5

[Squag1]

Daughter brought car for recall check.
It took from 9.30 until 5.30 to get it checked and a replacement car sorted.

When I brought her to get other car she was told it would take 6 WEEKS to get part. They gave her a garage car because they didn't get hire car sourced in time.

A crankcase valve, I think, seems it can go on fire.

The hire car will be a Skoda Fabia
This makes her very happy

Apparently Fiesta is the standard offer.
She's fighting the case so I don't know where it's at.
Insult to injury.

 

[Me!]

Good old Skoda, ploughing on where the big marques fail :campeon:

 

[derek kelly]

Skodas are ace.

 

[Cougar377]

Daughter brought car for recall check.
It took from 9.30 until 5.30 to get it checked and a replacement car sorted.

When I brought her to get other car she was told it would take 6 WEEKS to get part. They gave her a garage car because they didn't get hire car sourced in time.

A crankcase valve, I think, seems it can go on fire.

The hire car will be a Skoda Fabia
This makes her very happy

Apparently Fiesta is the standard offer.
She's fighting the case so I don't know where it's at.
Insult to injury.

Took 2 months to get a replacement passenger door for our Vitara. then another week for it to be painted and fitted.
There wasn't a single bare metal Vitara passenger door in the whole of feckin' Europe FFS.

 

[andyBeaker]

Daughter brought car for recall check.
It took from 9.30 until 5.30 to get it checked and a replacement car sorted.

When I brought her to get other car she was told it would take 6 WEEKS to get part. They gave her a garage car because they didn't get hire car sourced in time.

A crankcase valve, I think, seems it can go on fire.

The hire car will be a Skoda Fabia
This makes her very happy

Apparently Fiesta is the standard offer.
She's fighting the case so I don't know where it's at.
Insult to injury.

Lucky girl. It could be worse. Due to a cock up on road tax by the dealer when I was supposed to be picking my BMW up they needed to provide me with a courtesy car. I got a Mini Cooper S..

Useless pile of poo, not the best for a 6'2" lump with impeccable taste.

 

[Cougar377]

Lucky girl. It could be worse. Due to a cock up on road tax by the dealer when I was supposed to be picking my BMW up they needed to provide me with a courtesy car. I got a Mini Cooper S..

Useless pile of poo, not the best for a 6'2" lump with impeccable taste.

You're not supposed to eat them.

 

[ianrobbo1]

I thought Mini's were made by BMW

 

[derek kelly]

Lucky girl. It could be worse. Due to a cock up on road tax by the dealer when I was supposed to be picking my BMW up they needed to provide me with a courtesy car. I got a Mini Cooper S..

Useless pile of poo, not the best for a 6'2" lump with impeccable taste.

Impeccable taste & you buy a BMW.

 

[slim63]

Lucky girl. It could be worse. Due to a cock up on road tax by the dealer when I was supposed to be picking my BMW up they needed to provide me with a courtesy car. I got a Mini Cooper S..

Useless pile of poo, not the best for a 6'2" lump with impeccable taste.

I a similar experience with a bike main dealer, dropped my bike in for major work because I didn't have time & their loan bike was a superdream of all things

Sod that I thought I brought in 6 grands of bike in & I'm not riding away on 6 quids worth & told them so, after much argument which included me saying I could always go elsewhere I rode away on a brand new demonstrator with 4 miles on the clock & thrashed the tits off it for a week

 

[andyBeaker]

I thought Mini's were made by BMW

They are.

And they are rubbish in every way possible.

Too small.

Cramped driving position.

No boot space.

Noisy.

 

[Me!]

They are.

And they are rubbish in every way possible.

Too small.

Cramped driving position.

No boot space.

Noisy.

Probably due to the Peugeot engine !

 

[sr71caspar]

They are.

And they are rubbish in every way possible.

Too small.

Cramped driving position.

No boot space.

Noisy.

Enough about BMW's- what are your thoughts on the mini.

 

[derek kelly]

They are.

And they are rubbish in every way possible.

Too small.

Cramped driving position.

No boot space.

Noisy.

Just like BMW’s

 

[Pow-Lo]

Good old Skoda, ploughing on where the big marques fail :campeon:

My Octavia vRS was awesome. Then again, it had a big, grunty, diesel up front, so no surprises there. Only thing that stopped us buying new Skodas was the useless twats of a dealership in Maidstone.

 

[Cougar377]

I a similar experience with a bike main dealer, dropped my bike in for major work because I didn't have time & their loan bike was a superdream of all things

Sod that I thought I brought in 6 grands of bike in & I'm not riding away on 6 quids worth & told them so, after much argument which included me saying I could always go elsewhere I rode away on a brand new demonstrator with 4 miles on the clock & thrashed the tits off it for a week

I remember once being given a 250 Superdream with a Rickman fairing, as a courtesy bike. It was hard pushed to see off C90's and scary as hell on the motorway.

 

[Pow-Lo]

I remember once being given a 250 Superdream with a Rickman fairing, as a courtesy bike. It was hard pushed to see off C90's and scary as hell on the motorway.

I'm too young to remember those.

 

[Cougar377]

I'm too young to remember those.

What, motorways...?

 

[Pow-Lo]

What, motorways...?

No, Honda Superscreams

 

[Cougar377]

No, Honda Superscreams

The Dream Twin was marginally better than the Superdream. Either way you're right...they did make you scream. Mostly...."where's the feckin' power....?!".

 

[derek kelly]

I'm too young to remember those.

I’ve had a couple, nowt wrong with them apart from dodgy electrics & even dodgier fairings.