100% Exactly what I was thinking when seeing that, nowadays with youtube & forums everybody can inform themselves with a small bit of research and not get stung by these butter arse creams. Nothing but shit in a bucket these types
Disagree. I do not personally want to be on National television for any reason good or bad so I don't think you can criticise minimum wage workers on £7 an hour for that.
Ned You’re deluded mate, changing a tyre is the easiest thing in the game. If tyre cutters are better than mechanics, why can mechanics change tyres/wheels, but tyre fitters can’t drop an engine out?
Ned Well you’re saying that tyre fitters work harder than mechanics, which insinuates the work is harder, which is why the extra effort is required. Second of all you say there are no mechanics anymore only strippers and fitters which is an equally stupid statement. How do you define a mechanic? Tyre fitters have one of the easiest jobs going. Can I, someone who is slightly above average when it comes to mechanics, car work etc change a tyre? A wheel? Yes. Can I change an engine? A turbo? Can I fuck. Can a tyre fitter? Can they fuck
Ned tyre fitters are the painter/decorators of the car world, the lowest skill job in the industry. Just like painters, it takes no skill, just the right equipment
Ned I’m not a mechanic lol, I’m nothing to do with the trade just mess about as a hobbie, and through messing about I’ve learnt how to change a tyre, take a wheel off etc. I still haven’t learnt how to change an engine though. Surprising since changing a tyre is harder?
Ned you said tyre fitters work harder than mechanics which insinuates that tyre fitting is harder than mechanics. Mechanics change engines, tyre fitters change tyres. I can change tyres in a respectable time, Can you? I can’t change an engine or a turbo in a respectable time, can you?
Best case scenario buy privately and bring a genuinely knowledgeable friend along with you. Never go to any kind of dealership. Private garages run the same risks so avoid those too unless you personally know the owner or workers. Ironically you are better off in a "chain" store garage since the minimum wage workers have no real incentive to rip you off.
RIP Keith Chegwin he always brought a smile to my face whenever he was on TV. I grew up watching him back in the 90's on TV shows like the big breakfast.
I've been driving for 30yrs now and it's hard to trust any garage I go to for repairs or mot's. The last 2 places I've been to refused to work on my car as I told them what was wrong and to fix only those things. One place I took it to failed its mot and wanted £286 for the mot plus welding and brake pipes. Not believing them I paid for the mot but took it somewhere else for a 2nd opinion. It failed on a faulty back light that the 1st place didn't even notice. Didn't need welding and didn't need brake pipes. I went back to 1st place with my mot to show them in front of customers, they couldn't get me out quick enough. Robbing bastards. (excuse my language) I've just about had enough of mechanics. Sorry if someone genuine is reading this but the bad ones are giving good ones a terrible reputation.
@campbellscollision and you think customers want to deal with a individual like yourself from the comment alone you seem like the person to do half arsed jobs and not to mention the person might not have the required tools or knowledge to repair it , if you had a fault with your boiler who do you phone even though you know what might be issue ? Ahh that's right a repairman who is qualified for the job , remember who pays your bills customers without them you have nothing simple build a reputable company with clients and you will have them referring friends family etc left right and centre I only know because I've experienced this myself with my uncle's buisness due to fact half of time a customer comes in they always mention someone who is either a regular customer for m.o.t's etc or say well my friend or family member recommended I come here as I've heard your decent reputable garage , nothing wrong with honesty try it sometime and you'll not have to be dishonest to make a living
@campbellscollision think you might want to re-think what you just put in end quotes because I never said "you know personally my uncle had a garage" , ugh ugh umm... he still has a garage and been running it since god knows when it's called roys autos they also do recoverys worked there for my work experience when I was 15 I'm now 23 working for a tech company called Cultrix Edit: furthermore if you think making your own repairs is always a great idea then you sir are truelly dumb due to the fact your not qualified to mess with a boiler wait till that thing goes bang, I'll be laughing when your in a hostel or shelterd housing and on news 'man blows own house up and neighbour's trying to repair his boiler'
@campbellscollision haha very funny , I'm not a grammar nazi I'm just calling you out on your bluff (ocd) as said you would have double if not triple checked all your spelling I know this because my brother has OCD and like a things done in specific way if not it upsets him ( that's o.c.d ) also I never laughed or wished upon someone to be disabled ,so you sir are just morally wrong and like to put words in people's mouths I've met people like you before all too common now days think about themselves and chat utter shit to anyone and everyone
Always be clear and honest and if possible show the parts when they come out of the car againist the new parts and do my most to explain to make the cutomer feel comfortable.
I run a business where we are servicing equipment - There is no way morally that I would or condone any unnecessary work. Plus you treat people right and you get customers for life
Just one of the reasons i've *always* done all my own work on my cars and bikes. Plus I know the jobs done right! Must have saved a sh!t ton of money over the years.
i once serviced a car and strongly recommended to the customer that we change the clutch as it was on its last legs. They refused and took the car away. It came back 4 days later on a recovery truck with a blown release bearing. Some of us mechanics are legit.
Why did the release bearing fail? Was it due to the clutch? I am not being critical, just curious how a clutch breaks a release bearing. On the other hand, if you noticed a clutch problem, notified the customer and then the clutch failed, you did the right thing. There was obviously something not right. I do most repairs on my car myself, but have a garage round the corner with about four workers in it. I let them work on my car because I do trust them and can not be bothered to crawl under my car for a few quid. You sound like you are that type of honest garage. I would never go in to a KwiKfit /halfords type place under any conditions. I am not a car mechanic, but I have taken large engines out of large cars and put them in smaller ones for fun, which makes me slightly more able than your average Kwikfit fitter.
sounds like you shouldnt of let them drive away, you would of done the right thing telling the customer they needed a new one if you could have prevented it
+beebo Yes they do. I myself know of two specific examples, both of which wrecked the rest of the clutch system. Unless you know what you're doing that usually renders a car undriveable. Don't ride the clutch and don't stay in gear at traffic lights!
I don't know how to feel about this one - all the times I have taken my car to a "proper garage" they have always tried to tell me things are broken or going to break when they ain't. Same for the very few times I have went to the manufactures garage. Renault being my worse experience - they literally had my car for over 5 months trying to "fix it" - to cut a long story short - I got the car back (still not fixed) and decided to check it over myself - within 5 minutes I suspected a broken/damaged valve - a few hours later when I took the head off the engine, I confirmed it was a broken valve, replaced it and the car was like new again. Most of the time (at least in my experience) these "experts" don't know their arse from their elbow and spend most their time talking shit based on what they have READ out of their latest TEXT BOOK. I've always worked on cars myself since my last experience with Renault - I'm a perfectionist so I get the job done how it's supposed to, generally I get it done much quicker and of course much cheaper.
Awful fact but true, in Britain it's extremely difficult to find an honest mechanic, I have had countless encounters with out and out disgusting cowboys!!!!! I now have a great honest mechanic and he is polish........
I had a 52 plate Focus Ghia with the 1.6 petrol engine. Changing my clutch at a local and trusted garage cost £110 and was completed within four hours. Job done. It was a bitch to drive for a few days though. I hadn't kangoored a car that badly for years.
The focus clutch was in bad shape. And the to fix what the Porsche lady complained about would be sorted with a new clutch. I’m the first to jump on these rogue traders but this one on the evidence is a bit harsh!
@@dominickjustave3558 known? 😂😂 known 😂😂😂 you idiot
3 месяца назад
The disc in the focus was absolutely fine. And are you low on comprehensive skills? There was no problem with the Porsche, RT made it up and the bald tool running the garage just went with a non existent fault.
you must be a relative of his im a clutch mechanic and there was nothing wrong with what i saw making small jobs into big very common in this trade not just him but many many more be fare and honest and customers will always come back
Got done over by this dodgy **** many years ago, “repaired” my clutch with a very heavy, second hand one and charged me a fortune for the privilege. Looking at how the tea leaf argued with Matt, whilst being recorded, Joe Public would have absolutely no chance. Hope Karma catches up with the low life.
There's a place in Durham ripped me off with my Touareg, in the end I had to stop him at 1300 quid, wouldn't let me take the car until I paid him, his mistake was saying the water pump was dodgy ( A known fault with these cars) when it had just been replaced, the place is called Durham Turbo Pacs, 9 hours labour in which he washed the car, rather expensive carwash, had it for days as well, his quote on the phone was misleading, he said to replace the turbo " that'll be £400 for the turbo plus £180 for parts and labour, plus vat" he didn't say parts plus labour
Let's get it right there's more garages like this than genuine in a industry like the motor industry and the money that's involved tax insurance the government should step in and have stricter rules on car maintenance within garages set prices and fines and jail terms for these car traders and mechanics that take massive advantage of the majority of the general public that have no clue it's a industry that's gone totally out of control and regulations are needed
Gavin Townsley I will do when the new series starts up this Wednesday :) Sorry for the very late reply (Blame RU-vid) I didn't get notified of your comment.
everyone in my family use the same garage, and so do many of our friends, he will never charge you, if he cant fix your car. BUT 99.9% of the time he fixes it, at the original quote he gave you. he may advise you at times, that you should be aware of a problem. but if its ok for a good few more hundred miles, he will say so, if ever i cant afford to pay the full amount for a job, he will let me pay half, and pay other half week later, and he will never do a job, without ringing u first. if the car wasn,t worth fixing, he would say so, not just botch it up, to make money from you... guys like this mechanic are as rare as rocking horse shit.....but they are out there, you just have to find them
To be fair the guy accepts the customers word that there is a problem, the customer wont pay him to drive it around for a week to replicate it, garage repairs are based on educated guesses, not laboratory examination
3 месяца назад
Bollocks. Garages are there to correctly diagnose and rectify faults. For example: You don't go in with a wheel wobble on braking and have the track rod ends replaced. The garage would check the ball joints and bushings and hub bearings for play and also check the discs for run out with a dial gauge. By doing that you'd find the issue by process of elimination. That's not educated guesswork. Either you get scammed a lot or you're justifying being a scammer because you work in a garage.
We get it, he rides a motorbike, congratulations. But if he wants to come across as a TOUGH biker he might want to get a better bike and stop looking like a middle aged poser haha.
Commercial mechanics are robbing gits. Always see a family friend or sole specialist. Two garages near me quoted £400 for disc brakes change. So I got a friend to teach me how it was done properly, spent £60 on a trusted and reviewed set of discs and pads and it took me an hour to do the pair.
GOOD ON Y'A, LEE Best way to DIY. These days, there are instructional videos available on-line [eg. on RU-vid] if you haven't got anyone to teach you. You can buy Genuine Parts and change the Discs and Pads on your motor at a FRACTION of what a typical robbing Garage would charge.
Why tf would you have client reviews/letters of recommendation stuck to the wall, if you *weren't* expecting to have to defend shoddy, overpriced work? Its a really odd thing to have on the wall
3 месяца назад
"Just look at 'all' these badly written letters of commendation I definitely didn't write my self!"
He was VERY quick to start justifying his actions and pointing out all 5 of the reviews by satisfied customers wasn't he? Anyone acting that fast and getting that angry clearly knows they're being dishonest.
It would have been interesting to calmly present him with the two focus clutches and ask him to measure and assess them and describe the manufacturer of each and their reputation.
Presenter - "It didnt need a new clutch" Rogue Trader - "Thats a matter of opinion" Ermm? What the actual fuck? Opinion on whether a bit of hardware is working or not? It either works or it doesnt, its not up for bloody interpretation!!
Chegwin you're wrong you're referring to the brakes mate with one pad either side. The clutch only has one pad which is pushed against the flywheel. When the clutch pedal is pushed down it released it away from the flywheel. Halloween in the car to freewheel
Use a main dealer. May have high hourly rates but you get a good job and more likely to be honest. Everyone wants work done for nothing these days and thats why so many back streat geezers are ready to rip you off
3 месяца назад
Main dealers can be just as bad but generally you've got a lot more comeback if things do go to custard.
P G well if you have a car like a Porsche you can always find a freelance mechanic who has worked on them and knows them inside out and will get genuine parts. I know a fella with a few Ferrari’s and he always had his 360’s services by a mechanic who worked at a Ferrari dealership but now operates privately.
Ive been scammed like this. My hydraulics failed due to faulty seal, but was charged for a new clutch and 1200 quid out of pocket. Knew id been fleeced when the garage showed me the empty clutch packaging they said they had bought. You know when someones guilty when theybtry ro proove their innocence before even being questioned about it.
9 years late I know, but had to say this: Ineptitude and dishonesty... OK... What about Fraud by false representation? Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 I believe.
i had a clutch, master cylinder and cv boot done on my 1994 civic by an awesome chap whos a good friend of my dad for only £260 and it was in and out in 2 days
Mysterious Mechanic I’m guessing your not really a mechanic then ?? All clutches go when the manual say do they ? You have a 1 in 1 million chance of that hapening every clutch goes at a different pace depending on weather conditions driving conditions idle time drive time etc
Don’t use Boulevard Motors aka WestLondonMotorCompany aka BD Car sales Ltd aka BD Car Sals Ltd aka Ali and Sons Ltd aka Horsenden Motors in Perivale London. You have been warned
I'm always worried about being ripped off by garages but this is a bit of a poor representation - The trojan Porsche was taken with no faults, what garage would turn around and say no faults found that will be free? I have fixed computers for over 30 years and sometimes you cannot repoduce a fault, you often have to spend many hours fault finding things that may not happen within that time period. If I spend a day investigating should I turn around and say nah can't find nothing mate, have your computer back and don't worry about paying I'm sure I'll get a holiday on the rent, electric and any consumables I used from the suppliers while I wasted a day? The customer should have asked how much will it cost for you to investigate my problem. This program can be good and unbiased sometimes, like the guy from Cardiff selling other people's cars and keeping the money but other stories are a proper stitch up on the trader and often bring suspician and a bad name to a trade.
I swear, if I went to my local garage and started accusing them of being frauds, they would most likely stare at me for at least few seconds in confusion. This bloke goes from 0 to 100 on-sight because he knows what a dodgy git he is.
Demograffix ah ha the word luton should have given you at least a warning bell in the head going off, but alas no, sorry to read this, remember anything related to luton, inc, the wonderfull private owned airport, effing good luck
I’m not being funny but your talking about most garages. There all rip offs. I also own a Boxster s and where ever I take it they try make me pay out the ars. I have now learned to work on it myself
