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- Road Runner 2017
- Member Since: 14 Jan 2017
- Location: Scotland
- Posts: 2010
I would have refused, its a LR dealership.
Its understandable if getting a small car just for a few hours until your car is serviced, but for several days thats not acceptable in my opinion.
When my Subaru Sti was getting serviced last year, i ended up with a 1 litre ford fiesta as it was a Ford dealership who were also the Subaru agents. They were adamant that there were no Subaru cars available
I was fobbed off so my Mrs rang and created a fuss after speaking to the manager. Told them that they would be getting billed for the hire car for the weekend.
How do you expect 5 people to fit in a 2 door Fiesta, with 3 kids and a pram. Lucky to fit 2 carriers bags of shopping in the boot as it was so tiny. The engine was useless. I was getting overtaken by a transit van uphill with only me in it. Struggled to hit 60mph. Imagine if it was fully loaded??
We were going away too Glasgow for the weekend, so there was no space for our luggage, let alone a pram.
So after a return 30 mile trip and wasted time, lo and behold i had the choice of a Forester or an Outback. Miraculously 2 customer courtesy cars came back within the 30 mins. Yeah right !!
I went for the Outback as already had a Forester previously, and was really impressed with it. Felt on par with the Audi Allroad i used to have, but half the price. As it was an estate, had a massive boot and the ride was so comfortable. Plenty of space for the pram and luggage, plus i got an unreserved apology and they even filled the tank too the brim with fuel as a way of saying sorry.
Its amazing what a quick phone call can achieve
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- J77
- Member Since: 07 Jun 2016
- Location: Fife
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Tim in Scotland wrote:
J77 wrote:
A Seat Leon, that's nothing, my loaner from Pentland Perth when my DS went into the body shop was a Seat Mii 1.0 60hp with optional air con
At least you got a top of the range version .................. I usually don't take loaners as I have a Defender as well as the RRS I can use but that is waiting for annual service and the MOT has expired and I cannot get it booked until next week so the offer of a loaner was gratefully accepted.
It was fun to drive around the towns/cities but the motorway was a daunting experience
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- PaulC
- Member Since: 07 May 2017
- Location: Cowbridge
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- Road Runner 2017
- Member Since: 14 Jan 2017
- Location: Scotland
- Posts: 2010
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I have a whining/droning noise constantly coming from the engine also, even when stationary at the traffic lights. This developed recently as was not there initially. Or maybe it's resonating from the transmission through to the engine bay?? FGS sake if that is the case then that's another possible issue it's suffering from
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- PaulC
- Member Since: 07 May 2017
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- Road Runner 2017
- Member Since: 14 Jan 2017
- Location: Scotland
- Posts: 2010
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Ah ok thanks Paul. You had me sweating there for a minute. Suffered diff problems on the Fl1 which was running on 2wd temporarily and the Fl2 had a new haldex after about 2 years from new. That's the only transmission problems I have ever personally had Never even towed with the FL2. I expect parts are not as ruff n tuff like the years gone by and when stuff was made to last
Well whatever the symptom it has its not right as my loan D5 demo never had the whining issue and was only a 2 l. The 3 litre is a smoother less vocal engine than the 2 l well it's supposed to be, but not in my case
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