Dealer woes.

Cupotea

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Hi all,

This is more of a vent than anything else as I'm feeling fairly upset about the following. Barring my home, this is the most expensive thing I've ever bought and it annoys me so much that others (and so called professionals at that) can care so little about doing their jobs properly.

When deciding to buy my T6.1 one of the things the (main VW) dealer agreed to fix were some light scratches down both sides. When we picked it up it looked ok, though I should have looked closer as since its first wash which removed whatever filler heavy wax/polish they use it's revealed some of the worst holograms I've ever seen in car paint. They obviously let some idiot loose with a rotary polisher. The picture below doesn't do it justice.

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On top of that, one of the rear seatbelts was broken from day 1, despite their 141 point check stating otherwise. The check list also has 'n/a' next to the rear view mirror check, which makes me think they didn't even look at the van whilst ticking all the boxes and assumed it was a panel van without a rear view mirror rather than a kombi.

The final cherry on the cake was the sales person telling me they'd be very happy to talk me though the customer survey I'll get to make sure I do it right!

It's going to need professionally detailing and hope they've not totally mangle the clearcoat which will set me back a few hundred. As I said at the start, this post is more a therapeutic vent but part of me wants to use the obviously 'fake' check sheet as a stick to beat them with. If someone could tell me "there there, it'll be alright" I'd appreciate it.
 
As frustrating as it is @Cupotea everything you have mentioned can be sorted. I got a two stage polish done on my van £550 looked great... Then a lorry served into side of me. £600 saw that repaired but paint similar to yours after, company paid up after they saw dashcam footage. I was lucky! Washed couple of times and used Autoglym rapid detailer and less obvs now.

Someone posted a pic earlier showing fun times with their van. Focus on these. Life is too short... you'll spend more than a few hundred more surfing this forum! Cracking colour of van by the way. Enjoy
 
I feel for you bought mine from a dealer with promises to sort out few little scratch’s etc
But after first wash all became visible again!
When took it back they had it for the day to try and resolve and came back with big chip in windscreen when I challenged they said wasn’t us mate you must of done it and trying to pull a fast one! Plus when I washed van again scratch’s came back that’s when I gave up now and use good independent specialists
 
Cheers @ChrisBell , yeah I know it's not the end of the world. I'm bloody lucky to have it at all in the grand scheme of things! I think I just needed to get it off my chest. I'm glad you managed to get yours sorted as well. I think a crash would tip me over the edge at the moment!

@Chippie1 I've found a lot more little scratches and chips since so it's off to a local body place hopefully next week and then treat it to a detail somewhere and one of these snazzy sealants to hopefully protect it. I already had low expectations from the dealer. They know people will buy them regardless and could get away with flicking the vees whilst they do it with the current demand!
 
Cheers @ChrisBell , yeah I know it's not the end of the world. I'm bloody lucky to have it at all in the grand scheme of things! I think I just needed to get it off my chest. I'm glad you managed to get yours sorted as well. I think a crash would tip me over the edge at the moment!

@Chippie1 I've found a lot more little scratches and chips since so it's off to a local body place hopefully next week and then treat it to a detail somewhere and one of these snazzy sealants to hopefully protect it. I already had low expectations from the dealer. They know people will buy them regardless and could get away with flicking the vees whilst they do it with the current demand!
Yes like @ChrisBell said try not to worry to much you can and will get it sorted by professionals!!!
 
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