main dealer parts

[trotter]

i think the kid in the parts dept of my local main dealer (read main stealer) now thinks i'm a bit mental..


me hi i'd like a cambelt tensioner please for a vitara engine 1.6 16valve G16A i think

him ok have you got a reg number?

me no as the engine is fitted in another vehicle

him ok what year is it?

me don't really know.. (picking a year off the top of my head) 95 maybe?

him is it a soft top or a hard top?

me didn't realise engines came with that option..

him (just looks at me while a tumbleweed rolled past..)

me (wondering if he has a sense of humour and is trying to double bluff me) think it was a soft top.

him and what size is the engine?

me 1.6 16valve G16A engine.

him and you want a cambelt?

me no, just the tensioner please.. see here in my hand i have 2 different tensioners, one is metal and 50mm dia x 28mm wide the other is plastic and 58mm dia x 24mm wide.. i need the metal one please

him ok i'l just go look

me i amuse myself for 5 mins watching a technician trying and failing to put a plastic undertray back on a hyundai i10.. clip 1 side on the other falls off and repeat etc etc

him i haven't got one

me ok well can you get one?

him yes i could order one but it will take at least 3 days to arrive

me hmm ok not ideal i wanted it for this weekend really. what was the price by the way?










get ready for it

















him oh that will be £50...

me um no thanks that's more than i paid for the engine!!

him just looks at me again while i walk off laughing and shaking my head

[turbo-tom]

Haha that is brilliant! -
him is it a soft top or a hard top?

me didn't realise engines came with that option..


i have had a really bad week and that has made me laugh alot

[kiwizook]

That sounds so much like my dealer too

[Edweird]

The chap at Powell's in Scunthorpe can be like that some days.

He knows me when I say who it is, and yet every time he asks for number plate "Okay that's not come up. Do you have the chassis number?" Give him that "Still not got anything." and so on.

He does it every single time I ring up.

I'd wager it's something stupid about their computer system that's part of the problem but for some reason he can't just look up a 1984 SJ410 Type 2 WVX.

[Anton]

Rear windscreen wiper arm for a Mk1 Toyota Yaris, after some oik snapped it off for fun (hardly an Aston Martin we're talking about here) - £34.

For a windscreen wiper arm. Not even including the wiper. Or VAT.

I don't even bother ringing the main stealer anymore!

[ScottieJ]

My two local main dealers are actually pretty good, then again I usually try and get a part number for them before I bother calling

Did you go to pebley beach trotter?

[trotter]

i have had a really bad week and that has made me laugh alot

glad it made you chuckle as much as i did

Did you go to pebbly beach trotter?

yep! its just down the road from my house.

yea i left the piece of paper i had part number written on at work

when i worked in ciren the guy in pebley beach there was awesome and knew his stuff and if he didn't know he would find it on microfiche!! old skool rules

[ScottieJ]

They've always been pretty good when I've been there or called them. Guess it depends what guy you get they should give me a job I think, ill stock the place up with sj parts

[Jordi]

Love it.

Had a similar argument over hand brake cable with my main stealer. Chassis number and reg number. He told me "its this one" i'm stood there with a completely different one "no its this one, i just took it off".

Can't beat them for a laugh.

Jordi

[ROBBIE]

Some lad a t my local dealer told me Suzuki never made the 410 because they had never made a 1ltr 4x4, said i must have been talking about the samurai