Actually, the best “ever since” I have seen is a customer accusing the tech of moving his house with the customers car (it was in for an oil change). The customer said he found a chair, like a dining room chair, in the back of his X3 that absolutely did not belong to him.
LOL, ya, OK.
5150
On a 5150 a person can be held in the psychiatric hospital against their will for up to 72 hours. This does not mean that they will necessarily be held the entire 72 hours; it means that psychiatric hospitals have the legal right to do so if determined to be necessary.
Large, older cities often have dozens of small independent shops with little or no on-site parking. Chicago? New York? Cleveland? Absolutely.Well first off, your car should never have been parked out on the street!
THAT might tick me off... if the tech reprogrammed my memory seats. if the car has memory seats, just adjust it as YOU need it to be, and let the customer use their preset.
I say that, b/c the person bringing the car to the shop, may not necessarily be the person setting 1 is set up for. they could be the 2, or 3 button, and now you Just messed with someone else's setting. Ex:
it's the family's third car, it's "Dad's Car", but Jr is now the primary driver....
it has 2 memory settings, Dad has 1, Jr 2. Jr brings it in for an oil change, and you technician do your thing, you just reprogrammed Dad's seating position to Jr's. of course Jr doesn't notice it, but the next time dad goes to use the car.... Oh! buddy!
I had the same complaint when I valet parked. The seat was back about 2 inches farther than when I gave it to the valet. Not sure why they needed to adjust the seat to drive the car 100 yds.
Then the wife is ticked off because position 1 was hers and position 2 was her husband's who drove it to the shopI'll try to set it the way it is if I can remember the seat position before I hop into a customer's car.
One hack I did with memory seats is to program the customer's position on the first preset, then after work is performed press preset to return to customer's position.
The moving the seat thing is a pet peave for me too. It's totally a first world problem but it still annoys me.Exactly. Im 6 foot and over 300 pounds, sorry, but the seat is going back and down. If I am doing something where I dont have to drive the car more than in and out of the shop I will do my best not to move the seat. I try not to move mirrors unless I have to. I get the same complaint with radios because one of the first things I do when I get in a customer car is turn the radio off.
Large, older cities often have dozens of small independent shops with little or no on-site parking. Chicago? New York? Cleveland? Absolutely.
Recently, my car was serviced at a local shop. The technician who worked on the car moved the driver's seat to accommodate his short stature. The seat was moved to the full forward position. That made it very difficult for me to get into the car as I keep the seat in the full rearward position due to my long legs.
My feeling is that the techs should replace the seat to the position in which they found it before delivering the car to the customer. What are your thoughts?
I had the same complaint when I valet parked. The seat was back about 2 inches farther than when I gave it to the valet. Not sure why they needed to adjust the seat to drive the car 100 yds.
I hate valeting...there seem to be a lot of restaurants around here (that aren't even that nice!) that have valet service. I avoid them unless I can walk or bike there.
I work at a service center and I am 6'1" and most of the guys that work in my shop are taller than I am. A huge portion of our customer base is women who are around 5 feet tall or shorter, so it is or at least would be nearly impossible for us to drive the vehicles if we did not adjust the drivers seat. That being said I have received some complaints about seats being moved and frankly I don't care, you want us to service your vehicle and we need to be accommodated in order to do that. Most of the vehicles we see have power seats without a memory function so it is near impossible to get a seat back into the exact position.
I don't like someone I don't know driving my vehicles period. There may or may not be something in there I want to remain unknown by some person I do not know or trust! I politely ask the attendant if I can park my own vehicle after dropping my passengers, and they normally point me to the very back "40" of the lot. I don't care, I don't want a valet rummaging period.
What I will do that surprises the **** out of them, I will tip them $3 to $5.00 when I walk past them on the way into a restaurant, but "I" have my key's! No one gets in my car! No one! They respect that you have tipped them up front and realize your not just a cheapskate, you just don't want anyone in your vehicle and your still willing to pay them for their service. Believe it or not, they do understand your reasoning, you want your key's, and you don't want anyone in your vehicle.