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People can be very good at lying. He would have been expecting your visit after all, so had time to prepare.
Am I going mad
- Thread starter MikeyH
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Sorry but that is the exact attitude why people do whatever they want with no repercussions these days.
North West Surrey
Pretty sure one of the breakers on here will be able to source you a replacement grille. And swapping it over is about an hour all in. However, if they swapped it in a rush then they are likely to have snapped off the plastic pins on your bumper. The grille is held onto these by those odd push fit star washer things. When you try to pull them off they snap the plastic pins. Only way to be sure is to cut those washers with snips to loosen them, then fit new ones. In your case, I strongly suspect you'll find most of those pins are missing and the grille is bodged into place.
Not want you want to hear, but the easiest solution may well be to replace the whole bumper.
Would the police do anything?
Jesus, not something I can do
Thank you all for your advice, help and support but I don’t think there is anything I can do. I’ve had 4 good years enjoying it, it’s a great car but this has left a bad taste. This is a local German repair shop, I thought I could trust, I was wrong. The shine has gone, dare I say time to move on. Don’t want to but see how I feel in the morning.
They should. Even if it's getting CCTV to try and prove they did this. And if the Police aren't interested you threaten to complain to the chief constable and your MP (they do all still work for us, surprisingly).
Or you could just contact the garage and say you have evidence and escalated this with the authorities and see if they hold their hands up. Bluffing can work wonders. If they did this, they know they did, but don't know what evidence you may have. So a guilty conscience will ensue, unless they are hardened criminals (which is unlikely).
If you just roll over these people win and get away with whatever they want. Do you want them to win?
Do you want them to be the cause of you falling out of love with your car and getting shot of it?
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Maybe not, but others could for you. Pity I'm so far away.Jesus, not something I can do
Whatever way I look at it it's going to cost me a lot of money and time to put right. I've enjoyed this forum and the car for 4 years and had hoped to keep it until I gave up driving but at this moment I don't know what to do. To think that some scumbag or scumbags think it's acceptable to do this to a customer's car is awful. I can't prove it is them but they had the car for 8 hours to do a service, I rang them several times throughout the day to be told it wasn't ready. It's taken the shine away.
Such a shame. Give it a day or two to settle in your mind.
Honestly if you were within reach I would fit a bumper for nowt to help you keep the car, assuming you could find a good one.
I don't know of any 'me's' down your way though.
There aren't any enuff_zed, your one of a kind. I've looked online and new bumpers don't seem to come with the bottom grill, as you say I will wait a few days to settle down, at the moment I am still very angry. It's so sad that I can't trust a garage to be honest. It might be better to get a complete bumper as the repair I did a while ago has never been very nice and now if I have to remove the bumper it might pay to change the whole lot and be no more expensive than having the paint professionally done. However I expect I will just put up with it and live with it. I really do appreciate you kind offer of help and if I lived nearer I would get you to do all my work on my car.
Mike.
Put a wanted ad on here for a good secondhand bumper, complete. You never know.There aren't any enuff_zed, your one of a kind. I've looked online and new bumpers don't seem to come with the bottom grill, as you say I will wait a few days to settle down, at the moment I am still very angry. It's so sad that I can't trust a garage to be honest. It might be better to get a complete bumper as the repair I did a while ago has never been very nice and now if I have to remove the bumper it might pay to change the whole lot and be no more expensive than having the paint professionally done. However I expect I will just put up with it and live with it. I really do appreciate you kind offer of help and if I lived nearer I would get you to do all my work on my car.
raymond.harper
Senior member
You can get a whole car for £1200 and swap the bits over. https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...wse_serp:b61a2b18-a172-4f7b-8cd3-8ddada48973d
Chester
That's a kind offer. It all hinges then on how many of the pins on the bumper are still intact.
I can find the fixing washers.
Spring Nuts x16 64 11 136 4257
Yup. My theory was that if they whipped it off his car quickly they would have just pulled those spring nuts and then they tend to snap the plastic pin off as they come away, due to the way they grip the plastic. I've usually found I have to use snips to open up the clips so they don't damage the plastic. If those cowboys did it they wouldn't have been careful.
very true.