The dashboard camera once again filmed what can happen to your car in the service when you are not looking
3 hours ago | Peter Miller
Photo: Vortex Radar, press materials
We want to believe that the vast majority of car repair shops are staffed by honest people who want to help you with your problem, get paid adequately for it, and nothing else. At least the exceptions to the rule appear with iron regularity.
Entrusting someone more or less unknown with something that means something to you for whatever reason is always tricky. If you entrust your apartment to craftsmen, you have to hope that they will not start using it as their own, that after coming home in the afternoon you will not find cigarette butts and a drunken beer bottle that you saved for yourself in the trash, a silhouette of a figure on the bed, and the residue of bodily fluids in the toilet, put diplomatically. But no one can ever guarantee you in advance that it won’t happen if you don’t stand behind the person in question all day. And you probably won’t, because if you do, you can slowly do it yourself.
It’s the same with a car. You entrust it with a service and a key, with the understanding that its employees will do some work on it, but your car may just be useful for someone on a shopping trip. Or he’ll like it, so he’ll just hang out with him, show him to the “girls”, whatever. It’s extremely unprofessional if the person doesn’t get your approval (I tell a mechanic I know in advance: “Go ahead and drive it if you like it,” but that’s because I really know him and know he’s going to treat the car politely), yet unfortunately it happens more often than is healthy.
The latest such case took place at an official Chevrolet dealer in Burlington, North Carolina, where one of the owners of an exceptional C7 generation Corvette Z06 wanted to fix a misfire on one of the cylinders. It was already difficult to get the repair shop to do anything, when he first entrusted the car to him and the garage did nothing, then he took it, entrusted it to him again and did nothing, and in the end it took almost a month to fix the car. But the real shock came after taking over the car.
Sunglasses were missing from inside the car, so the owner looked at the dash cam footage from the main photo, which can be purchased as an accessory to the radar detector. Only then did he understand what was happening to his car. The car was gradually misused by two employees, one of whom went to show the car to his wife, girlfriend or anyone, just a complete stranger. She even understood that the camera from the window is probably recording everything that happens to the car, but the service employee was clearly not excited about it.
The other, for a change, was very excitedly driving the car on public roads, but he too probably understood that he might be being recorded, saying, “It’s good,” just to be sure, before explaining his behavior by saying, “I have to make sure it’s good for the customer.” Yes, a post-repair drive is necessary unless the customer discovers that problems persist. But this was far beyond a proper verification of the state of things, not to mention the first trip. Unfortunately, this is far from the first time we’ve seen something like this, so especially with the more interesting cars, you’d better be careful if you don’t want this. Even in authorized services, some people apparently can’t help themselves…
A similar Corvette Z06 has become the subject of abuse, which you can see for yourself in the video below. It’s not really a pretty sight. Illustrated photo: Chevrolet
Source: Carscoops
Petr Miler
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2023-08-27 07:02:24
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