Had the new Octavia for 10 days only, and already it's been damaged.

 

Oh dear.............

 

Come on Rusty,        Spill.   

 

 

Edited 11 June, 20187 yr by Auric Goldfinger

I managed less than 24hr with my brand new VRS in 2007. Went to a car park on the first day, opned the boot and bang! The spoiler hit the low roof of the car park and chipped it. Gutted is an understatement.

Further details will follow as soon as I've had a chance to speak to the people responsible. At the moment, the way forward is that I'm just emailing them the pictures of the damage and asking why it was necessary to destroy my new car.

 

16 minutes ago, Rustynuts said:

...... as I've had a chance to speak to the people responsible....... 

 

24 hours pah!

 

#1

 

Drove a Citroen home from the selling dealer (90 minutes)

SWMBO popped to Morrisons in it (60 minutes) 

Someone had reversed into it at the supermarket punching a hole in the rear bumper.

 

Of course she didn't notice the damage.

 

SCORE 150 minutes

 

#2

 

Ordered New FIAT (yeah yeah I know!)

Checked it over during its PDI and it was mint.

Unfortunately I got sent to Iraq before delivery.

SWMBO picked it up, and by now it has a crease in the front of the bonnet where someone has maybe dropped a wrench on it.

 

Of course she didn't notice the damage.

 

SCORE 00 minutes

 

Brand new to damaged in zero minutes.

 

Of course the stealer swore blind she'd done it. 

However when she blubbed about the old man being at the war, and his new car being messed up on delivery they did the paintwork for her as a favour. "Thanks guys"

 

 

I had my Fabia for a month before the dealer damaged it sticking it through a auto car wash!

 

Now I am miffed as the lip of the boot seems to be catching the rear bumper and taking the paint of it!

 

Davy

18 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

However when she blubbed about the old man being at the war, that he was an unhinged special forces operative and he was going to come back and drop a live claymore in the dealer's shorts, they did the paintwork for her as a favour. "Thanks guys"

 

FTFY

 

Just been to my local trusted body repair shop. New door, new rear window, nearly the full side of the car respray. About £1200 + vat as a starting guess.

As it happens I've just received the full quote. £2127.52......

So.... what actually happened?

My wife locked the keys in the boot....

31 minutes ago, Rustynuts said:

As it happens I've just received the full quote. £2127.52......

 

5 minutes ago, Rustynuts said:

My wife locked the keys in the boot....

 

Ooops that's a bl**dy expensive spare key 

 

( I really feel your pain though Jeeeez you just gotta love the fairer sex, no really you do, honest, you just have to 

A catalogue of errors from start to finish really.

 

1. My wife opened only the boot of the car instead of unlocking everything. As we all know, if you unlock the boot and open it, when you close it then it autolocks again immediately. When she opened the boot she placed the key on the floor of the boot while she loaded the suitcases and overnight bags into the boot.

 

2.  She then closed the boot and it autolocked.

 

3. I'd given the spare key to my wifes sister who was travelling with her, just in case anything happened to the first key. If so, she had a spare and they could then continue with their drive/holiday/ business. That was my mistake right there.

 

4. My wifes sister thought the safest place for the spare key was in her overnight bag. Which is now safely stowed away in the boot of the car...

 

5. Myself and my wife have breakdown assistance, so when she phoned me and told me what had happened I was mildly annoyed due to the first four mistakes. If any of these had been avoided then it wouldn't be an issue, but we have assistance so the logical course of action would be to get them to help (at this point, logic should've told me to tell them to smash a rear quarterlight window and retrieve the key with a coat hanger gleaned from the hotel they were staying in).

 

6. The Orangutan who turned up to assist should've realised that his metal bars and wedges were going to cause damage to the vehicle, and should've thought about the statement my wife made, "Whatever you do, don't damage the car!", instead he insisted "I do this every day and I have all the necessary tools!"

 

7. Once the Orangutan realised he was actually going to damage the vehicle he should've stopped right there and said "Do you want me to just smash a window and you'll be on your way in 2 minutes, cost of about £60 for a replacement quarterlight?", but he didn't.

 

Which brings us to the current situation. The recovery company have passed the case on to their insurers who are looking at how quickly they can say "Tough, it's not our fault, read the small print in the policy!", the recovery company are saying "We will absolutely do everything we can to make sure we look at getting this sorted out!", the Orangutan from ******** ***** **** is doubtless now having his arse kicked for being such a dumb cluck and getting caught wilfully damaging a customers car in broad daylight while the customer takes his picture, and I have a damaged car with £2 grands wroth of repair bill hanging over me.

 

Still, could be worse.

I accidentally let the keys fall out of my overalls top pocket while getting something out of the estate space a couple of years back. Didn't realise for a couple of hours when I couldn't find the keys. Called Skoda assist and waited a couple of hours for them to arrive. The guy 'picked' the lock after about 20 minutes and hey presto we were in and retrieved the keys. No damage involved, gave him a tennner to get a drink. 

What’s the name of the “recovery company” then,this has got to be one to avoid?

I'll give them chance to sort it out first, then give an honest opinion.

My wife did something similar not long after she started driving. Got to school, opened door, keys in ignition. Got out and (as she always did apparently) locked the doors with the manual button in the car. Reached in got her stuff from passenger seat, hand bag etc. Closed the door. Keys still in ignition. 

Rang me at 845am, i was on nights only in bed since 8. Drove around the 1/2hr to where she was and then spent an hour sitting my car waiting for a man to come. Cost me 200quid, 

But he had a set of reallly handy little air bags that slipped in around drivers door, squeezed the the top of the frame out enough to get a thin metal hooked rod in and popped the lock release button from the inside. Not a mark anywhere.

It’s quite obvious we can all make mistakes and this senerio is not uncommon BUT of all the possible solutions this is NOT one to be considered and nobody in their right mind would take this option and if the operative “does it every day” there must be a lot of damaged vehicles in the area.............best of luck getting it sorted and posting the operative in action on “you tube”

15 hours ago, Rustynuts said:

 As we all know, if you unlock the boot and open it, when you close it then it autolocks again immediately.

There is a VCDS tweak on the O3 to delay the boot autolocking - don't know if it also applies to the Yeti though?

1 hour ago, SWBoy said:

There is a VCDS tweak on the O3 to delay the boot autolocking - don't know if it also applies to the Yeti though?

 

This was on the 15 plate Octavia we picked up 10 days ago, not the Yeti.

OMG this must be driving you mad.

 

A buddy (or rather his wife and son) locked both keys in his Audi last week on holiday. The AA and £270 later they were back in and on their way home. I thought that was pricey!

Modern car security is just too good. When we did the double key in boot scenario 20 years back at Tesco, the trolley boy broke into the car without damaging it for a fiver.  Likewise, when SWMBO trapped our diabetic and unwell toddler in the car, she was able to persuade a local youth to break-in for the same amount.

 

Hope the OCTY gets fixed to your satisfaction, and at someone else's expense.

5 hours ago, Rustynuts said:

This was on the 15 plate Octavia we picked up 10 days ago, not the Yeti.

Well it's definitely possible on a 15 plate Octavia, that's what I have and have done it and tested it.

 

Trunk lid lock delay

Edited 13 June, 20187 yr by SWBoy

3 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

Modern car security is just too good. When we did the double key in boot scenario 20 years back at Tesco, the trolley boy broke into the car without damaging it for a fiver.  Likewise, when SWMBO trapped our diabetic and unwell toddler in the car, she was able to persuade a local youth to break-in for the same amount.

About 30 years a colleague locked his keys in his MG Metro, while he messed around with a car hanger in the drivers door I jiggled the key from my cheapo base spec Metro in the passengers door and opened it in around 10 seconds.

16 hours ago, SWBoy said:

About 30 years a colleague locked his keys in his MG Metro, while he messed around with a car hanger in the drivers door I jiggled the key from my cheapo base spec Metro in the passengers door and opened it in around 10 seconds.

 

I had an 89 Vauxhall Astra that was so easy to break into I stopped locking it because the damage to the locks was getting expensive.

 

Basically you could choose between hammering a screwdriver into the lock and turning it, or you could just hit the lock with a rock and it would fall into the door and you could unlock the car with your finger.

The locks were held in place with horseshoe shaped clips and nothing else.