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[brum,brum,mike]

This was where i work, was pretty funny... Although quite dangerous!

Customer came in, wanted his rear brakes overhauled.
Trevor took on the job, and did everything that was needed to do, took it for a test drive... fine. Job done.

Then, 6 months later the customer came back for his MOT, no rear brakes at all.
When on the ramp, we found Trev's brake pipe clamps still on lol He denied it at first (typical of him) then was proven wrong as the brake pipe clamps had his name engraved on them!

Was pretty funny, but abit stupid ahahaha

[Alex_B]

Jeebus! how is that possible? did they not notice the lack of brakes?

[jamesmpi]

to be fair 80% of all braking is done by the front brakes so probably wasnt that noticible, especially if you are not mechanically minded

[holmesy]

took my mgc gts race car for mot, parked it in the waiting bay. it passed, it's was in the exact spot left it in and still cold. dint even touch the thing lol!

probably new it would pass since there Ian more polish on the underside of the car than the top or he just couldn't get it started lol

[M J W J]

I once saw a very new Mercedes S class in a Mr tyres garage having new brake discs fitted and they left the callipers hanging from the pipes. I pointed it out to the owner who went ballistic at the garage owner.

When I had to have a new tyre for the mini the guy put the tyre on the rim and found it wouldn't fit. He came back and said that I must have odd wheels on my mini. I went and had a look at it on the tyre machine to find that the guy was trying to fit a R10 tyre to a 12" rim. He was so apologetic afterwards and that he wouldn't get the wheel back to me when he said he would, that when he did sort it he let me have it free of charge. Not a really a bad experience it just made me laugh. He had just assumed my mini had 10's and ordered in a R10 tyre.

[SA MINI]

Mum was out in dads 4x4 when she had a blowout. Went to quick fit to get a new set of tyres as dad said may as well, basically they ruind the threads on all studs & told my mum a couple of her wheel nuts needed replacing.
She was then told it would be fine to drive with 2wheels only held on with 2 nuts. Out of 5

They don't call it quick fit for no reason

[Noah]

Mum was out in dads 4x4 when she had a blowout. Went to quick fit to get a new set of tyres as dad said may as well, basically they ruind the threads on all studs & told my mum a couple of her wheel nuts needed replacing.
She was then told it would be fine to drive with 2wheels only held on with 2 nuts. Out of 5

They don't call it quick fit for no reason

Kwik fit? More like sh*t fit.

[SA MINI]

^ your telling me mate ^

[mk3 Cooper S]

. When I complained the guy told me to prove it was them.

Oh, I would have taken great pleasure in that !!!!!!

[t@z]

many many moons ago :)

http://www.theminifo.../page__hl__wood

[edsaz]

Without a doubt kwik fit are my biggest hate, took a car there years ago for tyres, they said they had the ones advertised on offer so put the car on the ramp, manager then comes in and tells me " we dont have the tyres on offer in stock but have others at full price" i said no thanks i'll go elsewhere" he said " you cant, i have looked at your brakes and dont think they are safe, i cant allow you to drive your car away as i think it's dangerous but the good news is we have the brake parts in stock", bit of an argument followed involving me giving the manager a full and brutally honest opinion on my thoughts about him and his staff, he still tried to be cocky and tell me i couldnt have my car back so i suggested he calls for police and an ambulance as i would be using force to remove my keys from him and my car from his workshop. I drove out shortly after that.
Dont know if kwik fit still operate that way but i think it used to be fairly common.
Ford dealers arent much better, tried to have my dad over for a set of pads and discs and a new clutch/flywheel telling him it would be dangerous to drive it otherwise. I asked them to demonstrate how they had checked the wear on the clutch whilst it had been in their workshop for only around 45 minutes, they then said that it must be worn right down as the car had done 80k miles at that point. the clutch got changed at around 120k and even then it wasnt badly worn.

[666junky]

Jamie Hart (aka Jay) on Charfleets industrial estate (Canvey) He makes out he is a mini specialist when all he does is take money for jobs and not spend it on the parts needed.. when the time comes for repairing the car he often used old parts or gets his dad to do it.

There have been a few times where he has promised customers that work has been done on their vehicles.. Its often left a friend of mine to pick up the pieces (those who were often at the yard will know who i mean)

He did the same to me and actually left me (as a paying customer) and my friend to do the work to my mini! Lets just say my friend got the cash!

so glad you said this! i had a falling out with him and scott unfortunatly, jamie was twisting many of the storys, so if you do see scott, send him an apology his way :)

needless to say i heard jamies working in a cafe now?

i was actually at the garage whilst your mini was in.. jay touched nothing but obviously told you he had.. by the time my mate realised it had been waiting so long i think people had started to get a bit irate. needless to say my friend got things sorted as quick as he could.. even though he works nights full time.
pop round to his new unit some time.. its actually productive work going on!

Edited by 666junky, 10 November 2012 - 11:20 AM.

[jonny d]

Took my reverse rim wheels to the local kwik fit garage here in plymouth to have my own supplied tyres fitted, I told them that I was very fussy and that the wheels were 2pk paint and for them to be really careful. They gave me the usual yeah ofcourse mate routine and said can I return next day to pick them up, when I turned up the guy was very apoligetic that he had very badly chipped the paint on all four wheels at all four claws positions of the machine I wasn't very happy And told him he was a goon and that he didn't even bother to protect them, he tried telling me that any garage would have had the same results it was then that I told him that I put the last tryes on myself with no damage at all. Complained to the manager and he said we can get them refurbed for you but by then I had no trust in them at all so did them myself, lesson learned dont take it to GOONS

[ANON]

i did get barred from james edwards land rover in chester for trying to pull the service manager over his desk to give him a bit of a slap

he even told the mechanic who had my key not to hand it back to me, just looked at him and put my hand out, just got a bit of a smile from him as he handed me my key. one of the advantages of looking like someone you shouldn't mess with

[giacomo]

Jamie Hart (aka Jay) on Charfleets industrial estate (Canvey) He makes out he is a mini specialist when all he does is take money for jobs and not spend it on the parts needed.. when the time comes for repairing the car he often used old parts or gets his dad to do it.

There have been a few times where he has promised customers that work has been done on their vehicles.. Its often left a friend of mine to pick up the pieces (those who were often at the yard will know who i mean)

He did the same to me and actually left me (as a paying customer) and my friend to do the work to my mini! Lets just say my friend got the cash!

so glad you said this! i had a falling out with him and scott unfortunatly, jamie was twisting many of the storys, so if you do see scott, send him an apology his way :)

needless to say i heard jamies working in a cafe now?

i was actually at the garage whilst your mini was in.. jay touched nothing but obviously told you he had.. by the time my mate realised it had been waiting so long i think people had started to get a bit irate. needless to say my friend got things sorted as quick as he could.. even though he works nights full time.
pop round to his new unit some time.. its actually productive work going on!

yeah i had a tiff on the phone with jay on the way there as he had said he wasnt down there when he clearly was. more i think of it the more i realise jamie was twisting alot of things between the 3 of us.
yeah i would but i dont think scotts that keen on me after the incident lol