What happens to those new cars that customers successfully reject under warranty because of persistent faults etc? If they are re-sold does poor old Joe Public get to know the antecedents?
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They get sold into "buyer beware" aution slavery.....to spend a fruitless! life of trips to and from the auction, a life of sale and resale, never having a stable owner, unloved and uncared for....
awww the poor lemons........
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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If I remember correctly, Ford used to pop rivet a plate onto the front slam panel with words to the effect of 'Ford warranty no longer valid'
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If I remember correctly, Ford used to pop rivet a plate onto the front slam panel with words to the effect of 'Ford warranty no longer valid'
Correct,my spares car has a silver disc on the slam panel saying
'no manufacturers warranty'.The car,a 1.8TD Sierra Sapphire,belonged to a friends father and gave sterling service.
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Where is the "front slam panel" please?
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where the bonnet catch is.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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Thank you! I am none the wiser but I am much better informed! Ha ha!
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Thank you! I am none the wiser but I am much better informed! Ha ha!
The black bit between the headlights in this picture
mckeown-enterprises.co.uk/images/May04/slam_panel....g
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Front slam panel - so named, I presume, because the bonnet gets slammed shut onto it, or it's the front panel that gets slammed when if you run into something...
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Don't they get resold to less critical punters? Some people would reject a car if one of the drinks holders had a sticky action... others will drive happily around in cars that don't track straight and have nuts and bolts rattling around in the rear brake drums, having got used to their 'character' and never exceeding 45mph anyway. Dealers do need to be watched. My father some years ago bought a new Marina coupe in a gloomy shade of khaki which had drums at the front as well. When I asked him about it he confessed that he had specified discs but failed to check when the car arrived, and had later felt it wasn't worth doing anything about it. He gave the car to me later but I couldn't stand its brakes after years of front discs. It was economical, reliable and unpretentious, still youngish at 26,000 miles, but horrible to drive.
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Best fate for a lemon: in a gin & tonic.
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Dr Alex Mears
Seat Leon Cupra
If you are in a hole stop digging...unless
you are a miner.
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They all find homes,95%of the time the 'fault'is with the punter and the next owner/driver is happy enough with the 'lemon'.
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Ever wondered where a select few of those "nearly new" vehicles on dealer forecourts come from? ;-)
Blue
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Or "our director's ex-car" ......?
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Time to get on with some work ???
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They get put on the forecourt of your local Ford Main Dealer!
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Sorry but you are all wrong.
Yes Car Credit is the answer:-)
madf
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Or No Car Credit as its now called.
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TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
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well would you credit it? no sir we"ve shut up shop due to lack of customers.
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Rebadged as Rovers...
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Rebadged as Rovers... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
YAWN!
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Mate of mine used to work for TRW, and was involved in the electric power steering on the Fiat Stilo, amongst others.
He had to go out to Cassino in Italy to do some final testing on production-build cars...they would break them, the factory would patch them up and send them on to the dealers...as far as I know, that didn't happen with the RHD cars though!
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