Thoday
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Recently i have a had a huge leak in the car which vaux blamed on my sound system.. (fair point) they had to remove (or move) the battery to remove the box that holds all the wires in on my corsa c.
Wednesday eve after work 3 weeks after having this work done go to start car and interior light bulb blows and everything flashes at me  ohh fook car wont start at all.. no battery light at the time.. eventually waited 5 mins and tried again and battery light comes on.. everythings obviously disabled so i have to call out the AA via vauxhall road assistance..
attempted to have a look at the battery but did not want to touch it and had no tools anyway
wait and hour due to rush hour and bloke wires his machine up the battery expecting it to be flat and the battery moved slighty, then he touches the terminals and the negative is really loose   AA bloke says have i touched it, i reply no and explain Vaux were the last people to remove it.. lets say he was shocked at how this could have happened.
in hindsight ok i should maybe carry a spanner with me and it may have been problem solved, but it was pitch dark so i could harldy see anyway  but what would have happened if i had got down the road at 70mph on the dual carriageways or 60mph dodgy country roads i use to get home and my car cuts out.
talk about potentially dangerous and life threatening..
just been down and gave them a piece of my mind, spoke to the top man at the local dealership and have been given a complaints address and he will be speaking to the mechanic in question for making such a simple but utter stupid mistake..
rant over 
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Mikorsa16v
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its not funny is it, you would have thought paying (if not under warranty) top dollar they would get something right lol
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Marc
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Explain how your sound system caused a leak though??
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AK
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same happened with my old mans corsa C...
got locked inside....
he sat on his key fob, locking the door...
battery terminal came loose, deadlocks were active.... he was trapped in car...
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neiliosxi
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Registered: 17th Dec 02
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Could have ended up a lot worse, glad you found out when you did or it could have been very nasty 
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Thoday
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
Explain how your sound system caused a leak though??
apparently the wire had broke the box that holds all the wires .. though after fixing it and i asked to see the box they had suprisinly binned it
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bwbw
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam Kindness
same happened with my old mans corsa C...
got locked inside....
he sat on his key fob, locking the door...
battery terminal came loose, deadlocks were active.... he was trapped in car...
How the hell did he get out, Imagine you didn't have your phone with you and you we're the only one in the house
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neiliosxi
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pop bonnet?
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Mikorsa16v
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam Kindness
same happened with my old mans corsa C...
got locked inside....
he sat on his key fob, locking the door...
battery terminal came loose, deadlocks were active.... he was trapped in car...
OMG, what a load of bad luck there! get out through the boot?
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bwbw
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But what if the boot was done via central locking? How would popping the bonnet help anyway !
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Carr
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quote:
Originally posted by bwbw
But what if the boot was done via central locking? How would popping the bonnet help anyway !
i was thinking this. obviously it would help if you had someone outside the car to tighten it. ive always got my trusty manual windows so ill never get trapped in  oh the glories of non-electric stuff
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R Lee
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they said to me on my car.
leaked in passenger footwell and blamed it on the sound system too. same as my my mate that had problem and he wrote a letter to vauxhall. haven't asked him what happened though.
vauxhall dealerships = homosexual, walking, talking, monkeys.
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Thoday
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Totally agreed have demanded something for my troubles
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willay
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they fixed my car this morning no problems
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Jake
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
they fixed my car this morning no problems
theres rumours floating around that there are competent vauxhall garages
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Tiger
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Your talking about Earth leakage then, not fluid leakage, just to clairfy it for the readers....
[Edited on 19-02-2005 by Tiger]
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Ian
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They serviced mine and washed and hoovered it yesterday, and lent me a 12 volt just in case I was feeling lonely.
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Thoday
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Utter shite round this way..
rumour of a good vauxhall dealership.. where...
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Red_SXi
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Yeah i've experienced shit like this, when my car was accident repair the bottom bolt holding the rear damper on was really loose and came out whilst i was driving
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Mattb
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quote:
Originally posted by Thoday
Utter shite round this way..
rumour of a good vauxhall dealership.. where...
CD bramell chesham
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