New car funny story

errant said:
why?

two lads at work have almost identical bmw 1 series through the same lease company, both have the same issue with random total power loss... as both of them are field engineers they've parked them up and refuse to drive them as BMW have spent 6 months telling them there are no problems, but within days both cars will loose power (normally in the fast lane of the motorway!).
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Absolute crap customer service, we all know computers can be wrong. It’s left a bitter taste in my mouth, that my safety was compromised and they didn’t give a flying ****
BiG said:
Yep. Golf mk 8
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Youve been fortunate that it’s done it and proved them wrong. They had ours over a month, said it was our driving styles!! We’d taken it back within the first month and were entitled to our money back, said it need a software update. Basically fobbed us off till we over the month lost 2.5k on it.
 
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zippie said:
Absolute crap customer service, we all know computers can be wrong. It’s left a bitter taste in my mouth, that my safety was compromised and they didn’t give a flying ****

Youve been fortunate that it’s done it and proved them wrong. They had ours over a month, said it was our driving styles!! We’d taken it back within the first month and were entitled to our money back, said it need a software update. Basically fobbed us off till we over the month lost 2.5k on it.
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There’s a reason why the IT Director of VW resigned.

I told the bloke at the dealership that I was beginning to feel like I was Toby Jones he was The Post Office. He was quite upset.
 
Mally Mackem said:
well my son thought it was hilarious, so i get my new car delivered yesterday and im very happy with it audi a3 sline aye i know another fcking audi driver.. so im out for a drive around loveing it and i come to temp traffic lights at the lodge in seaham and the car just stalls and im in the middle of the queue.. im thinking fcking hell panicking like mad.. so im waving peolple past and and im turning the key like mad but nowt happening release the brake to try and roll on the kirb.. and it starts.. stop start mode.. im 57 and had enough ford escorts and cortinas to know that when a car cuts put they usualy dont start again so imediatly assumed the car was knackered.. the stop start option is now turned off 😄
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Welcome to the new area. Wait till your automatic windscreen wipers fail when it's lashing down on a motorway !
 
League Wan said:
Aye mines the brake with it being auto,usually tells you on the dashboard like

Can't being doing the dpf any good if it's a diesel
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Another reason to switch it off. Start stop is only going to create problems long term for your ice car.

Switch it off when you get in, simples.
mysticmackem said:
Welcome to the new area. Wait till your automatic windscreen wipers fail when it's lashing down on a motorway !
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Then you just switch it to manual via the wiper stalk.
 
My father in law has a merc with all the bells and whistles, and it's an absolute pig to drive. The cockpit is like the Enterprise. Everything is buttons and switches and there's nothing intuitive about it that makes you feel like you're naturally driving a car. You feel like you need a pilots license to get in the bloody thing.
 
One of my pet hates in my 22 reg VWmk8 is that ALL the dashboard systems are operated via touchscreen. Which is right fuck on when you’re attempting to alter the heating or switch on, off, over, up or down…or type a destination in the satnav (as a passenger), whilst the vehicle is in motion. Like I say it’s not very user friendly.

So I’ve got a 2024 TRoc as a loan car while they reload the software. Guess what? It has knobs and dials fir turning things on and off turning volume up, switching apps etc. Maybe they realised that a knob on a dashboard that is actually easier to control is a good idea?

Somebody said online : “VW should have understood that being a good engineering company doesn’t make you a good software engineering company”.

They must have really pissed off thousands of customers all over the world.
 
yamar1 said:
Then you just switch it to manual via the wiper stalk.
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True, but when you're travelling at speed, blind until you realise what's happened, then factor in the time it takes to get it into manual. You have travelled a fair distance. It's happened to me and it's scary. Hence all "automatics" on my car are switched to manual when I set off.
 
mysticmackem said:
True, but when you're travelling at speed, blind until you realise what's happened, then factor in the time it takes to get it into manual. You have travelled a fair distance. It's happened to me and it's scary. Hence all "automatics" on my car are switched to manual when I set off.
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That’s rubbish. Don’t be embarrassing yourself any further
 

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