| Patrick 
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 | ...you have to put your car in the garage then leave it all alone with them for hours?
 
 My car is getting serviced and tuned up today and had to drop it off at 8am this morning. Seeing it parked outside as I got in the cab back home really puts shivers down my spine. What if they don't fix it properly, what if they rip my front bumper off going up the ramp, what if they cane it whilst I'm not around, what if they make it worse, what if they don't move it quick enough and I get a parking fine. All these questions were going through my mind on the way home. I've never used this garage before and am trusting them to do a good job.
 
 Just thought I'd see if I am the only one that feels like this when you have to leave your pride and joy all alone with people you hardly know for hours and hours without knowing what is happening to it!
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| Gambit 
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 | i know exactly what you mean, i've had my front bumper pulled off and also brake fluid split on my bonnet!
 
 i dread it everytime
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| Andy Stocker 
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 quote:Originally posted by Adam Kindness
 dry your eyes your moaning bastard....
 
 
 
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| Patrick 
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| Gower 
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 | What if they masturbate in the drivers seat? Or has that already been done?
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| Andy Stocker 
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 | Did you not think about maybe you wouldn't see your car again cos you might have had an accident in the taxi on the way home, did you ask yourself how competant is this driver really? Did you trust the driver?
 All these questions.... but who gives a fuck?
 
 [Edited on 26-03-2003 by Andy Stocker]
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| Patrick 
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 | Andy, you are a wanker! If this thread is of no interest to you then why don't you just fuck off and not read it. You're pathetic responces are not called for and are not wanted!
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| Gower 
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 | What if they are terroists who are planting a bomb on you car?
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| Andy Stocker 
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 | But it winds you up, & I enjoy winding up little tosspots, much like yourself
  & I never said it wasn't of any interest, I just said I don't give a fuck
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| Patrick 
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  See what cs has become? | 
| Andy Stocker 
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 | A hive of activity
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| Daimo B 
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 | 
 quote:Originally posted by Patrick
 
  See what cs has become? 
 
 You started the post!!!  The site has become like this because of gay posts.  Like this one.
 
 Muppet.
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| Gower 
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 | "What if they dont move it quick enough and i get a parking fine"
 
 lmfao
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| Patrick 
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 | Not quite what I was thinking!
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| Kris TD 
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 | wat if it gets stolen off the forecourt cos they forgot to lock it ???  or they write it off when on a test drive
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| Andy Stocker 
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| Daimo B 
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 | Not hard to service your own car anyway!  Done mine for the last 3 years with no problems.
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| Jodi_the_g 
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 | I hate customers who think that the only car we have booked in for a service is theres, there is a queue and then questioning the workmanship of trained professionals
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| Andy Stocker 
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 | But Patrick couldn't even change his rear lights without Halfpint let alone do a service
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| Patrick 
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 quote:Originally posted by Andy Stocker
 But Patrick couldn't even change his rear lights without Halfpint let alone do a service
   
 
 
 It's not exactly hard is it! I just didn't have the right tools!
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| Jodi_the_g 
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 | Thats my point if they take it to a garage they obious can't do it themselves but still question the skill of mechainces.  Sorry its just a pet hate of mine
 
 Not getting at anyone on this post its just I had a bloke come in with his misses car who knew nothing and was trying to tell them how to do there job yesturday
 
 [Edited on 26-03-2003 by Jodi_the_g]
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| Andy Stocker 
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 | The right tools??? A socket set???
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| Gambit 
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 | screwdriver?
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| Patrick 
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 | I haven't got a socket set. I did do one of the lights myself with great difficulty using a spanner and a pair of plyers!
  
 As for servicing my own car, yes I reckon I could do it myself. The problem is I'm not just having a service done. The engine has been running badly lately and needs to go on a diagnostics machine to check for faults, is also overfuelling really badly is going to have a thourough tune up.
 
 All of that could certainly not of been done by myself especially considering the lack of tools I own!
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| Andy Stocker 
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  @ brain So what tools do you own? Apart from being one yourself???
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