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kbannon 
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E39 525i Sport Individual
Joined: 09-October-2002
Location: 64 Zoo Lane
Status: Offline
Points: 15508
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 Posted: 06-July-2006 at 12:40 |
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Mick my lights are one complete sealed unit. I usually call the lot angel eyes. The test doesn't check the alignment of the actual halo part - just the dip beams
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Current: 2009 E60 520d "Sport" tractor
Previous: 1989 E30 320i SE
1997 E39 523i
2003 E39 525i Sport Individual
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Curley
Really Senior Member I
Joined: 28-February-2006
Location: Allenwood, KIldare
Status: Offline
Points: 431
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Posted: 06-July-2006 at 12:50 |
Reminds me stopping for a young lad with a '97 'maxed out' Ibiza with his bonnet open a few years ago at the Skee bridge in Allenwood
Had a quick look, there was oil everywhere and no oil filter, seemingly he had done the service himself 20min beforehand and when it got spluttery he thought dropping gears that it might drive what ever was wrong with it out of it !! ( bottom end in this case) Anyway I traced the oil spill back to a t-junction 4 miles up the road and retrived his oil filter in a fine pool of oil..... Chances are he's probably an apprentice in Conlans now !!!
67% imbalance is a bloody disgrace and should have being picked up in Conlans. Wouldn't mind the NCT 50% fail on a handbrake makes it one of the easier parts of the test to pass. Makes you wonder
Thomas
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Dergside
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 16-May-2004
Location: Mid West, Ireland
Status: Offline
Points: 4000
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Posted: 06-July-2006 at 14:37 |
btw. a handbrake check is not part of the service schedule for an Oil level service. Seems to me that the technician probably overlooked or ignored the add on item on the work sheet and didn't tell the receptionist, who probably just produced the bill based on the worksheet and the std duration for the job.
There could be a conspiracy here on the part of the dealer, but I doubt it.
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Fey!
Bavarian-Board Contributor
Funs over, Scotty; beam down my clothes!
Joined: 28-February-2005
Location: Galway
Status: Offline
Points: 4161
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Posted: 06-July-2006 at 14:49 |
As Dergside pointed out, it can be 6 of one and half a dozen of the other when it comes to dealing with dealers/indies. However, being billed for obviously undone work is unacceptable.
 Kin Mak wrote:
I once had my XK in Jaguar Ireland before the NCT. Had a full service done and I told them to check for everything that the NCT will test. Went to do the NCT and it failed on "light intensity".
Went back to Jaguar Ireland to kick up a stink, to be fair to them their service was great, they brought me to the back to show me how it was all tested and all. |
OT (sorry), but an Irish mechanic just won the Jaguar Worldwide Mechanics Competition in England!
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Dergside
Really Senior Member II
Joined: 16-May-2004
Location: Mid West, Ireland
Status: Offline
Points: 4000
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Posted: 06-July-2006 at 15:03 |
Fey! wrote:
However, being billed for obviously undone work is unacceptable. |
Absolutely, so that should be tackled and the dealer given an opportunity to put the problem right. Putting it right could entail correcting the problem and crediting the cost of the failed NCT against the next service.
Edited by Dergside
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Conlan’s strikes again!