New cars

luke · 20-02-2006, 10:39 PM

Hi all,
Today I was out the front of a certain car manufacturer, (Based in Elizabeth, Adelaide). An employee was driving a brand spanking new VZ SSZ Commondore onto a towtruck. Anyway, halfway up, the SSZ got stuck, and starts scraping on the undercarriage. The guy driving it just floors it, spins the wheels and scrapes it onto the bed of the truck anyway, with the worst metal-on-metal sound I have ever heard.

These are new cars I'm talking about here... NEW CARS!!! This one will probably be back getting a new exhaust under warranty. Hmm... This is why I don't want a Commodore.

/end rant

XRated · 20-02-2006, 11:13 PM

You wouldn't buy a Commodore (or any car for that matter) because one dealer you've seen did something bad?

16wantsI6 · 20-02-2006, 11:22 PM

yeah but this might show that alot of them are slack, i mean not every workplace is run like the books is it...

Redrum · 20-02-2006, 11:29 PM

I am pretty sure, in Victoria I know, that the same transport company does the blue oval also. Red and white trucks, cannot remember company.

gmhdriver · 20-02-2006, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Redrum

I am pretty sure, in Victoria I know, that the same transport company does the blue oval also. Red and white trucks, cannot remember company.

Finemores, which have now been bought out by Toll.

gmhdriver · 20-02-2006, 11:29 PM

Hardly a reason not to buy a Holden. Most likely a one off or a rare occurence at the most. The damage would be picked up and fixed during pre-delivery anyway.
Also, I'm pretty sure the truck drivers load the cars onto the truck, not Holden employees.

Deadman · 20-02-2006, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by gmhdriver

Hardly a reason not to buy a Holden.

Exactly. There are plenty of reasons already :nutsycuck

luke · 20-02-2006, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by 16wantsI6

yeah but this might show that alot of them are slack, i mean not every workplace is run like the books is it...

That's what I mean... It's just like, some people don't care... Might not just be Holden either, you don't know what's happened to the car prior to delivery, no matter who made the car. This is probably why you get lemons, they have probably been thrashed in their first 10 k's, which will probably do the most damage IMO.

**Mechan1k** · 20-02-2006, 11:29 PM

I wouldn't be surprised if a Ford dealership "somewhere" has done the same as well.

Aeron · 20-02-2006, 11:38 PM

Toll lost my car. They didn’t even know where it was. It was just by chance that one of the salesmen were at the Toll holding yard and saw a blueprint XR6T and thought it may be mine. It was. So I got RATT to go over and pick it up and take it to the dealership.

NZ · 20-02-2006, 11:41 PM

My mate who recently took a redundancy package from tord told me this story. A Territory milage car was damaged but another senior employee who he didn't really like but had to work with him anyway. This guy managed to run this territory off the road and did some damage to the sump and undercarriage. It was supposed to be fixed before it went to the dealer but in the interests of getting the car out and keep his number up it went out damaged. Naturally the dealer wasn't happy and my mate had to organise for the car to be returned to the factory to be repaired. He was naturally fuming about it. He said to me ' That ИИИИ struts round like a frnch peaИИИИ on heat his days coming ...'

So it doesn't just happen at holden.

gtfpv · 20-02-2006, 11:56 PM

imagine fpv cars they cant go over some speed humps and road dips. many many many cars get repaired pre delivery . the truck driver gets paid once the car is on the truck damaged or undamaged. thats why they dont care. a damaged car is better than a space on the truck..

luke · 21-02-2006, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by gtfpv

a damaged car is better than a space on the truck..

Which is why there's so many dodgy f**ks out there! As long as they get paid they don't care. Especially with peformance cars. You just don't know the car's history before delivery.

Ryan · 21-02-2006, 02:16 PM

Hmmmmm yeah that does sound dodgy.

I bet all manufacturars do it though.

Dave_au · 21-02-2006, 02:57 PM

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Originally Posted by luke

This is why I don't want a Commodore.

Why don't you try BMWs and Mercs - heck you should see how many brand new cars get a respray before delivery, it's shocking.

I'd be slightly annoyed if my $200K+ car had been resprayed before I took delivery.

Des · 21-02-2006, 03:08 PM

An ex-workmate bought a new Subaru and had to have the whole car re-sprayed. Imagine the dealers disgust when they discovered during the investigation that the problem was caused by fallout from an accident at a factory that backs onto their (dealership) holding yard. The dealer ended up respraying about 20 cars plus complete rebuffs and touch-ups on 10 others. Needless to say the offending factory's insurance paid for the lot.

Big Mike · 21-02-2006, 03:27 PM

I was a NEW CAR salesman for over two years. Very expensive Mitsubishi Ralliart front bumpers were delivered with the lower section in the trunk, I'd imagine the same for HSV's and FPV's, though the remaining bar was almost always damaged. Sometimes repairable, often replaced. And yes, we charged Toll's.

Those transport guys are mad - some of them complete morons (like any workplace I suppose). My dealership was a few hundred metres from a McDonalds - I saw a couple of NEW cars, with all the plastic etc on them, straight from factory, driven (without trade plates) off truck, through McDonalds drive-thru, then back past truck into my yard. I swear that guy's head rolled that day.

One day, a 100-series Land Cruiser was literally dropped off the ramps sideways; and some of the drivers would plough all the other vehicles straight up the full square curb at huge speed (often other brands were behind our cars and had to rotate load)

Any brand of car, they ALL use transport companies, they ALL get damaged, they ALL get repaired - be it a Mirage or a Murcielago they are driven by crazy hoons at the docs, in the transporters' yards, on and off multiple trucks, around the dealership, on test drives, etc etc. And much to my disgust - damage DOES occur far too frequently. Oh, and the odometers don't count while the yellow fuse it up.

Ben083GC · 21-02-2006, 03:49 PM

Whats the world coming to? A new car is actually used? lol...those stories are unbelievable fellas.

Smoke Pursuit · 21-02-2006, 03:55 PM

I seen a new Tornado ute thats had some dodgy factory welding done on the front end, around the left front seems near where the guard and front rad support meet behind the headlights, also FPV forgot to repaint the guard where the washers had moved al ittle as it was removed, theres now a big circle from a washer of bare metal, plus alot of damage done to the paint on the top of the bolts, crazy really, btw the car was Rapid so it stood out like dogИИИИ.