Post by doctorjones on Feb 4, 2009 23:37:32 GMT
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As a field service engineer, My company provide me with a car, quite a large estate, to carry all my tools and spares.
It's a pug 407sw, and its long, so long that when I park in a carpark marked bay, with the front touching the armco, the backend hangs over in to the lane, causing other cars to have to drive around it.
to that end, I dropped it in to the pug stealers for its 100k service on tues, and when the the chap at the desk took me out to the car park to give me the courtasy car, he presented me with................
A 107!!! with petrol engine!! WTF? I expressed my concern as to where the bl**dy hell he expected me to put all my kit, and he cheerfully pointed out that the back seats folded down!!
to say I was annoyed is an understatement, but apparently all the dealers only use these now as "loaners" last time it wasn't a large car, but a 308 with the seats down is a lot more useable.
and today, to add insult to micro-injury, they want to do some expensive tests to find out out why my car has very poor cold start, but the lease company wont let them do it untill their inspector has seen for himself as they dont belive the dealer, and dont want to pay,
this means i'm without my car for another day, as it has to stay there to ensure it is properly cold
And when i say the 107 is small, the back window is closer to the drivers seat than the pasenger seat backs of the 407, the 107 (compleate) is shorter than the cargo area of the 407 with seats folded
and I keep thinking i'm being tail-gated as every time i look int the rearview mirror, the car behind is closer than im used to ;D
[/rant]
As a field service engineer, My company provide me with a car, quite a large estate, to carry all my tools and spares.
It's a pug 407sw, and its long, so long that when I park in a carpark marked bay, with the front touching the armco, the backend hangs over in to the lane, causing other cars to have to drive around it.
to that end, I dropped it in to the pug stealers for its 100k service on tues, and when the the chap at the desk took me out to the car park to give me the courtasy car, he presented me with................
A 107!!! with petrol engine!! WTF? I expressed my concern as to where the bl**dy hell he expected me to put all my kit, and he cheerfully pointed out that the back seats folded down!!
to say I was annoyed is an understatement, but apparently all the dealers only use these now as "loaners" last time it wasn't a large car, but a 308 with the seats down is a lot more useable.
and today, to add insult to micro-injury, they want to do some expensive tests to find out out why my car has very poor cold start, but the lease company wont let them do it untill their inspector has seen for himself as they dont belive the dealer, and dont want to pay,
this means i'm without my car for another day, as it has to stay there to ensure it is properly cold
And when i say the 107 is small, the back window is closer to the drivers seat than the pasenger seat backs of the 407, the 107 (compleate) is shorter than the cargo area of the 407 with seats folded
and I keep thinking i'm being tail-gated as every time i look int the rearview mirror, the car behind is closer than im used to ;D
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