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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: omegod on 12 November 2013, 15:22:00
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Popped in for a new battery for the works Chevy today and obviously wanted the cheapest one " you are aware that that battery is just for motorway driving aren't you" Erm Sorry what? "yes it is purposely designed to have less power than a normal battery"
Apparently the staff are trained to inform customers choosing the cheapest battery this.........I bet they are ::)
After all that they gave me the wrong bloody battery as the terminals are the wrong way round ;D
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Popped in for a new battery for the works Chevy today and obviously wanted the cheapest one " you are aware that that battery is just for motorway driving aren't you" Erm Sorry what? "yes it is purposely designed to have less power than a normal battery"
Apparently the staff are trained to inform customers choosing the cheapest battery this.........I bet they are ::)
After all that they gave me the wrong bloody battery as the terminals are the wrong way round ;D
Which goes to show that you learn something new every day ........ ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Numpties! ;)
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So....you still bought it? Even after being warned? Some people just ask for trouble.
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Yes - you have to check what they say carefully - for my son's Merc their recommended battery just did not fit in the aperture!! We had to match the power rating to their other stock to select something that did fit - seems ok though and got us out of a hole on a wet Sunday morning.
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It is worrying, I sat whilst er-indoors car was MOT'd yesterday listening to a parts assistant talking to a customer about the Vx Adam, he told this poor mug that its the front floor pan off the Astra and the rear off the Corsa....(Its a short wheel base Corsa D platform as per Fiats etc etc etc)
It beggers belief, I sat there looking at him shaking my head and looking disgusted at which point he scurried into the back not to be seen again.
I nearly butted in to make him look a bloody idiot but he was s potty runt who clearly hadn't seen a barbers in a while and I could not be arsed,...
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(Its a short wheel base Corsa D platform as per Fiats etc etc etc)
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Does any manufacturer design & build a platform just for their own use? Or put another way, what cars share major components with others ie Toyota Iygo / Citreon C1 / Peugeot 107 oe Fiat 500 / Ford Ka :-\
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(Its a short wheel base Corsa D platform as per Fiats etc etc etc)
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Does any manufacturer design & build a platform just for their own use? Or put another way, what cars share major components with others ie Toyota Iygo / Citreon C1 / Peugeot 107 oe Fiat 500 / Ford Ka :-\
Astra J, Zafira, Chevrolet Orlando.... ::)
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Astra J, Zafira, Chevrolet Orlando.... ::)
:P :P :P :P
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Bentley Continental and Phaeton :y
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(Its a short wheel base Corsa D platform as per Fiats etc etc etc)
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Does any manufacturer design & build a platform just for their own use? Or put another way, what cars share major components with others ie Toyota Iygo / Citreon C1 / Peugeot 107 oe Fiat 500 / Ford Ka :-\
Astra J, Zafira, Chevrolet Orlando.... ::)
Some mug on here actually bought one of these..........Now who was it?...... :)
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Well the Corsa is the SCCS platform which includes:
Small:
2005- Fiat Grande Punto
2006- Opel Corsa D
2007- Sevel LAV
2008- Alfa Romeo MiTo
2012- Opel Adam
Small wide:
2012- Fiat 500L
2014- Fiat 500X
Small LWB:
2006- Fiat Linea
2010- Opel Meriva B
2010- Fiat Doblò
2011- Opel Combo
Small LWB wide:
2013- Fiat 500L Living/500L MPW
At least the Phaeton is better looking than the germanicified Bentley (which is truely hideous)
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So....you still bought it? Even after being warned? Some people just ask for trouble.
At least I never bought a whole Chevy :o
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So....you still bought it? Even after being warned? Some people just ask for trouble.
At least I never bought a whole Chevy :o
I'll post up when something goes wrong with it. Don't hold your breath. ;D
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the germanicified Bentley (which is truely hideous)
I think they look fantastic! :y
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Well the Corsa is the SCCS platform which includes:
Small:
2005- Fiat Grande Punto
2006- Opel Corsa D
2007- Sevel LAV
2008- Alfa Romeo MiTo
2012- Opel Adam
Small wide:
2012- Fiat 500L
2014- Fiat 500X
Small LWB:
2006- Fiat Linea
2010- Opel Meriva B
2010- Fiat Doblò
2011- Opel Combo
Small LWB wide:
2013- Fiat 500L Living/500L MPW
At least the Phaeton is better looking than the germanicified Bentley (which is truely hideous)
Please tell me that those don't all have that utterly faultless EPS system found on the Corsa D ::)
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So....you still bought it? Even after being warned? Some people just ask for trouble.
At least I never bought a whole Chevy :o
I'll post up when something goes wrong with it. Don't hold your breath. ;D
Already looks like something went very wrong with it, like the designer had a stroke half way through ;D
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I went back and got a proper strop on when their tard of a manager admitted both batteries their computer stated matched absolutely didn't given I had the original battery with me. Did a dramatic storm out and jammed my thumb between the battery and door handle, proper eye waterer but I didn't howl till I got safely in the car :-[ :'( ;D
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I went back and got a proper strop on when their tard of a manager admitted both batteries their computer stated matched absolutely didn't given I had the original battery with me. Did a dramatic storm out and jammed my thumb between the battery and door handle, proper eye waterer but I didn't howl till I got safely in the car :-[ :'( ;D
Serves you right ;D Pity you didn't drop it on your big toe :P
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I went back and got a proper strop on when their tard of a manager admitted both batteries their computer stated matched absolutely didn't given I had the original battery with me. Did a dramatic storm out and jammed my thumb between the battery and door handle, proper eye waterer but I didn't howl till I got safely in the car :-[ :'( ;D
Don't you hate it when that happens ::)