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Originally Posted by marinabrian
Good for him 
I know of another owner of a new "ZS" who recently made a 400 mile round trip to Longbridge to sort out a software fault which also required the fitting of an updated camshaft sensor.
As his nearest dealer, a mere 100 mile round trip, couldn't guarantee to have the part as well as the update, nor the dealer in Durham, again a little over 200 miles from his home and back.
So as I was speaking to the "ZS" owner yesterday, I asked how he was getting on with the car, and it will be getting sold, a litany of niggling faults hinting at poor build quality, and his wife has said she doesn't like the car.
This is the problem with badge engineering, you can stick a badge of a relatively untainted brand on any old tat, but it will still be tat, and I'd like to see what the dealer support will like be once Longbridge has closed up shop.
Brian  |
I agree with Brian here, anyone who buys a car where the level of dealer/manufacturer after-sale support is non existent needs to have his sanity questioned, and buying a car on the basis of patriotism is also a head examining exercise. The demise of the British car industry is solely the doing of poor management, rubbish products, arrogance, lack of modernisation, and the fact that other countries just are plainly better at building cars, managing staff, producing cars that are what the public want to buy and have governments who are interested in promoting engineering as a means of wealth building as opposed of selling the silverware to simply get rid of a problem industry, then subsidise the very people they sold the silver to in order for them to set up shop manufacturing in the UK, and employing the very same people who 2 years earlier were actually working for British manufacturers now bankrupt for all the reasons above. Only in Britain.!