Likes a good argument...
I'd be terrified of telling him to fuck off then picking up the bike to find that it now has a few more problems than it had when you went in...
Maybe just show up there, tell him to write you out a bill and you want your bike back straight away. Take a couple of pictures of how it was stored etc. and if he gives you any grief over it take him to small claims... If he doesn't show, you win. Easy.
mad thou rider
not gunna read others replies, but personally if all is as you say, then I would not have left the bike there at all. After they said they didnt need to know what you told them, I would have said, thanks anyway, but I will try somewhere else and left. Telling them that could save you, and them three or four hours of dicking around (not to mention cost).Originally Posted by retired motoman
Service rant!!
Just recently droped one of my bikes into a workshop
as i could not get the bike started, i fully charged the battery on a optima3tender and tryed it again morning before taking it in , turning over no problem just wont fire up and tender indicated battery was good/fully charged. This bike has been runing sweet for some time how ever did this once before but turned out to be poor contact around battery terminals due to someone spraying a anti corrisive spray on them, once cleaned up and fully charged no problems till now. I told them what has been replaced , ie new plugs recently air filter , i checked all fuses ,charged battery on tender ex and proceded to try and tell them about the last time as noted above it would not start and what it was . Now here is where the fun starts, i was promtly told they dont need to hear all that , they dont need the book its all in my head was the words used and i dont need to be told how to do my job, wtf!! i was just trying to give them info on what i tryed as above .
It gets worse , i leave the bike there and get called back a day later and first words on the phone are ,do you want me to fix it ? what have you found i ask ?, im not going to tell you they say, WTF ? i then get told your just using me to find the fault and then you will pull it out and fix yourself. Now i took it there in good faith and this is the crap i get , it turned into a heated call and i was pretty upset , i then get told to come get it or ill throw it under a truck amoung a number of names called, WTF? I decided to go down and talk this over , i got a half assed apologe but still plenty of attiude . I left it there after that , maybe a bad idea but im pretty pissed with this service .
Love to hear your thoughts on this one
I would suggest paying up what time of theirs you have used (fault finding) take that on the chin and go somewhere else, it is possible to find a friendly, helpfull place who are happy to go the extra mile.
Good luck with this one mate.
Fair weather rider
Motomart are sweet , im an old hutt boy and have had great service
from pat years back.
Anyways time to move on for now , ill update when i get the call
Hardcore Biker
when the gearbox in my ute crapped out the dealer took it to their garage, on the phone the dealer told me that im full of shit when i told him he has to replace it free of charge. this made me so angry i swear i would of beaten him to death if it was in person, and some words wer said. anyway i stormed down to his mechanic and took it, no way i was leaving it there
Thats whats up.
Retirement with a cause
Motomart are sweet , im an old hutt boy and have had great service
from pat years back.
Anyways time to move on for now , ill update when i get the call
hell i hope its not a place by a river and bridge lol , he can be rude without putting any effort in either.
Hes a good spanner , but a better developer than a people person.
Fair weather rider
UPDATE!!
I went in first thing today with a surport person and asked if it was done,
it was not so i said ive been addvised to lay a complaint and i want the bike now, and ill pay for time spent. Not a happy chap and wanted me to leave it there and come back when he did a invoice, no way !! do it now i said. got told you cant come in here and take it, started to make out for the benifit of my surport person no dought that it was all me that was doing the ranting and raving and said he had me i speaker pnone, WTF? i can tell you right now if i went in on my own i would have been told to fuckoff !! im not going to name and shame now as i would rather put it behind me and it may not be the right thing to do. What a joke he tryed to act nice as pie when i went in with someone else and tryed to point the finger in my court for it all , clown. I dont wont you back in here again he said lol , you think!! I just could not trust this guy would not shaft me after all that so i had to get it, fair enough to dont you think.
A flash of lightning
Name and shame
Ride fast or be last.
Rest In Peace
Yep,not often I agree to this as usually two sides to the story,but this one seems to be consistant,you tell a story which hasn't changed.
Hello officer put it on my tab
Don't steal the government hates competition.
<<----- My dream bike.
Don't pay a cent if he doesn't tell you what is wrong as he has'nt done his job.
You should only pay if he tells you what the fault is. If he refuses you owe him nothing.
Cats land on their feet. Toast lands jamside down.
A cat glued to some jam toast will hover in quantum indecision
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat
Fix a computer and it'll break tomorrow.
Teach its owner to fix it and it'll break in some way you've never seen before.
Forum whore
Name and shame.
The greatest pleasure of my recent life has been speed on the road. . . . I lose detail at even moderate speed but gain comprehension. . . . I could write for hours on the lustfulness of moving swiftly.
--T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia)
Rolling Italian Orchestra
After the way you've been treated, hell I'd name and shame...
L'arte italiana cammina su due rotelle!
Always Learning
Yip wouldnt have paid unless the fault is found and identified - thats what you were supposedly paying for.
And for the sake of others whom might not be so mechanically inclined and walk in with sucker on their forehead - NAME AND SHAME!
Fair weather rider
I only payed for an hour $60 . After i left with the bike he tryed to butter up my partner who stayed back and payed the $60 saying to her , i did tell him on the phone what was wrong , bullshit he all but refussed to the only time
he gave a hint is when i went down and talked it over, he said im 99% sure i no whats wrong and said somethink along the lines of i need to reverse polarity something to test it? , that was all he said thoughout the whole saga and that was only after all the crap he called me on the phone. Apparently i have anger problems amoung other things, lol anger problems what a joke if anythink i needed to HTFU and tell him where to go on the first day. Ill tell you now if i was as hard as my brother i no what he would have done, gone straight down and knocked his fucking head off!! As much as he deserves a name and shame imho its best not to name people on a puplic forum , but i will say that its the first town on the left after bulls heading to taupo .
Im over the place , besides friends and my partners parents theres little here for our kids to get ahead in life,
and not one person i no yet you can trust with your bike repairs . I still have no reall idea whats wrong , but
he thinks its electrics , thinks ? For fuck sake!!
Rider in training
Good move picking up the bike.
It's really important not to reward bad service or poor jobs - and you do that if you leave it with them or give them further business.
ZZZZZZZZZZ
Marton narrows it down somewhat!
Nunquam Non Paratus
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks