Help Needed! People Are Stuffing Me Around!

[tmg]

Well, as the title suggests, I swear the yard I got my 34 4-Door from is doing the fudge on their cars. I bought my car 3 weeks ago and haven't looked back, and I am loving it to bits, except for the following couple of things.

Tyres: Front Right is almost bald on the inside - too much camber. Front Left is on the wear indicators. Rear Left is the same as Front Left. Right Rear has about 50% tread with even-ish wear. So...I need new tyres already.

I've got a mate who works at Beaurepairs and he was gonna put new tyres on the car this arvo, but ran into another problem - Wheelnuts...

On the left rear wheel there's one nut that's siezed up and crosstheaded. It moves a bit but becomes impossible to turn out any further after that. My mate didn't want to snap a wheel stud, so he suggested I go down to the yard I bought it from - Rite Price Autos in Kawana, so I did. When I rocked up I as waitin' for about 5-10 minutes for the guy that runs the business to come out and see me. The owner of "Auto Import Service Centre" who performs all the compiancing and maintinance of the cars sold at Rite Price was there as well, and was talking with the owner. They went from the workshop to the office, and after a little while the owner of Auto Import Service Centre came out and asked me take my car to his workshed, and give him a lift there too.

When we arrive at Auto Import Service Centre I talked with the workshop manager about the problem and he said it's not covered under warrenty to get the faulty wheelnut and stud out and replace it with new ones. I am severly pissed off about this because all I wanted was my car be legit and just be able to drive it, but now I need new tyres which I don't see why I have to pay for.

Another friend suggested calling the Office of Fair Trading in combination with QLD Transport, and tell them that my roadworthy could not possibly be legit with my tyres in this condition. Auto Import Service Centre said they don't need to remove wheels to inspect the brakes, which my mate at Beaurepairs and another mate who also knows the guy at Beaurepairs says is absolutely bullshit. I got a 12 month warrenty when I purchased the car too. Please help me sort the shit out.

[Johnny]

Problem is, would you really want this shop working on your car again??? even if they agree to do it once you threaten them with legal action they may screw up your car some more.

maybe try n get the workshop to compensate you for the money to fix the problem at another shop.

I dunno, alot of messing around with a bunch of retards; not much you can do, you can push the envelope but that takes time and money or you can assault someone and wind up with a record.

Try legit first and if that dosent work then just suck it up, buy some new tyres and when your anger fades in about 2months you can just enjoy your car...

[Atomnaya]

When i bought my car, i had this 3 month warranty thing where if anything goes wrong with the car the dealer had to fix it no matter how trivial the issue was. Apparently this is compulsory for all second hand cars. BTW this is in NSW so not too sure about other states. I just don't remember what its called.

[(B1) MR_fanny]

if they were arsed doing the job in the first place they'd be double arsed fixing their arseness. I wouldnt let them touch the car again and leave it with your mate or a qualified workshop. pay some money for some piece of mind and get the car thoroughly looked through while your at it. Should have done that before you handed the cash over, you probably would have picked up on the problem then. IMO 3 weeks driving isnt long enough to have killed your tyres with regular k's, they would have been on the verge of what you described and would have been easily picked up if it was inspected properly in the first place.

[NISMO]

if they were arsed doing the job in the first place they'd be double arsed fixing their arseness.

Quote of year!

[madbung]

Do they do inhouse r.w.c?

Ask to see a copy of yours, if it's a different w/shop get them involved also.

Their capacity to do r.w.c inspections should be worth a lot more than some tyres and studs to them

Edited December 18, 2008 by madbung

[RRB20ASH]

shit hey that sucks my car is cambered a bit too wearing on the inside but no way as bad as what u just described.

good luck