From: OzOne on
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:44:49 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote:

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>"hippo" <am9obmhAc2hvYWwubmV0LmF1(a)REGISTERED_USER_usenet.com.au> wrote in
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>> So the upshot of this would seem to be that for the last four years at
>> least, people who took Tritons (and for all we know anything else) to
>> authorised Mitsubishi service agents were possibly being defrauded and
>> it's only come to light now because a bunch of bolts decided to become
>> whistle blowers.
>
>Lol :)
>
>It would seem that Mitsubishi's dealers are no better at servicing cars than
>MMAL was at building them :)


That poor soul would have been obvious to anyone who could still think
rationally when confronted by a post from me.




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From: OzOne on
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:40:56 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote:

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><OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message
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>> Mmmmmm make you wonder why the book was ever written...
>
>To make idiots like you think that you're getting value for money when you
>take your car in for a service :)
>
>I'll give you another tip for free here Ozliar. What the service manual that
>comes with the car claims is done at each service and what the factory's
>service procedure instructions advise to do for that given service are not
>necessarily one and the same thing.

So you're claiming deliberate misleading publications and fraud!


An uncle of mine, a pedant through and through, used to mark every nut
bolt and washer on his cars that would need to be moved to carry out
the service to his vehicles as per the book....He woul then lift the
bonnet after the dealer service and in the presence of the dealers
mechanic, point out each bolt that had not been moved and ask how the
required work (that he was supposed to be paying for) had been done
without moving said bolts(s).

They learned very quickly that he would pay only for work done.

I had a similar experience when I asked the mechanic at my Ford dealer
to show me the new points that he'd fitted to my pointless aftermarket
distributor.




OzOne of the three twins

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From: OzOne on
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 22:37:56 +1000, "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote:

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><OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message
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>> Hey clown...the manual actually says that the suspension and
>> balljoints are checked....Is that not specific enough!
>
>What kind of "check" do you think that entails Einstein?

I'd respectfully suggest that a check sufficient to see that all
suspension components will remain attached would be the intent of the
check.

And if carried out as instructed every 15000 km then said check would
find a LOOSE bolt before it fell out!




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From: Noddy on

"Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message
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> How long ago was that though? Free inspection isn't all that unusual these
> days.

Admittedly it was 20 years ago now (or a tad over), but I wouldn't think
that all that much has changed. The principal focus was to relieve the
customer of as much money as was humanly possible, and I'd imagine that to
be exactly the same :)

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From: Noddy on

<OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message
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> So you as a mechanic are also guilty of not doing the work that the
> client pays for as described in the book.

Mechanics don't follow the vehicle's service book Ozliar. That's propaganda
"scenery" for the plebs. They follow the service procedure as outlined in
the factory manual.

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Noddy.