Reg Vardy - Eccy Rd - How do they sleep at night?

[mode1966 10]

because they think they can , thing,s like this really iritate me i,v have told them they were rip off merchant,s on the phone

[Supertatz 10]

If you look on Ebay, you can find tutorials on how to do almost any "small" task around your car, the most common being programming keys!

 

This is probably the same Reg Vardy that i went to a couple of years ago. I had a car worth around £6,000 as a px. They would not give me a rough price against a car worth £12,000 until i had a test drive in the new one. I said i just wanted a price so i knew how much i could spend on the new one, but they said they couldnt give me one due to company policy. My next few words were GOODBYE!

[melissalil 10]

My colleague has a new Clio (so have I) her service light came on the other day. She rang R V they quoted £240 for an oil change service, which is more expensive than a service on a 2 litre Mercedes at Merc dealer . She is so gullible she is letting RV do the service. When my service light comes on, my car wont be going anywhere near them. By the way I didnt buy my Clio from them because they tried to pile on £1000 of extras.

[tony2311 10]

because they think they can , thing,s like this really iritate me i,v have told them they were rip off merchant,s on the phone

 

did you feel loke a real hard man when you did that?

[Rob_1 10]

Last week we paid them £769 + VAT for a major service on a Renault Scenic.

 

The parts were £167

 

The Labour was £602 - worked out at a guess of a minimum of £100 per hour.

 

Despite their significant overheads it seems a lot....

 

And they forgot to do one of the jobs, Had to take it back

 

Congratulations, you've been robbed The trouble is, Main Dealers charge so much as they know people like to keep a full service history via them.

 

And I can tell you something for certain, if the parts were only £167 it didn't take them 6 hours! £602 Labour (+ VAT!!) for a service is incredible, you should have demanded a full breakdown of exactly what you were paying for and how long each job took.

 

A full service kit of genuine Vauxhall parts for my Vectra costs around £100 (main dealers sell parts cheaper on Ebay) and I can do the lot myself in a couple of hours, and i'm not a trained mechanic, nor do I have the specialist tools and ramps a garage has to make the jobs easier!

[tony2311 10]

its listed on board a cambelt change is like £350-£450, the belt is about £25 the rest is labour, no good crying about it now if you can read or brother to ask how much before hand

[tony2311 10]

.In the end, my wife refused the car and left it on their premises. They then charged her for leaving the car on their forecourt, fees which rose to over £2,000.

 

The bottom line is, she is paying for a car which she no longer owns.

 

Touch them at your peril.

 

what do you expect? they cant sell it as its not theirs to sell, it taking up space they paid for? teach you right for being stupid leaving it there without sorting it out like a man instead of throwing your dummy at them

[*_ash_* 88]

Congratulations, you've been robbed The trouble is, Main Dealers charge so much as they know people like to keep a full service history via them.

 

True. Some people like to keep a dealer FSH. But I don't think a main dealer service history means anything*. It doesn't make any difference to the trade in price if you sell it at dealership. They will give you probably about 70% of the trade value regardless of the condition. As you pointed out, it's simply a con. (or ripoff at least)

 

Personally I just kept all my reciepts for work done, all from the same place. And if I was selling my car, I told them to go to the same guy, as I consider him to be the best mechanic around... (though he's recently got out of the business, so I need a new one:hihi:)

 

 

*exceptions, ferarri, lambourghini etc etc