Right before i start this rant, a warning its long!!!!!!!
Well i got a new company car last friday an 08 plate 307 estate picked it up on 89 miles. I was working nights last night in a placed called Brandon in Co Durham (about 30 mins from home) and i had been up since 1pm.I left at 545 this morning as i got about halfway home i heard a clunking coming from under the car somewhere. So i got out to check to see if id ran something over and was dragging it alone, but no. Now obviously i didn't think it would be any parts of the car as it only had 400 odd miles on it to date. So i carried on home and got home at 615. The noise got worse when i got round the corner from home, so basically i just got home. As i went to parallel park the car behind my own the clunks got worse and all of a sudden the car stopped still and wouldn't move. I got out and 2 of the wheel nuts had cam out and were on the floor. Also the locking nut was missing, it must have been the first noise i heard. So the front passenger wheel was on by only one nut! I couldn't move the car and i park on a main bus route and was blocking both sides of the road. So i rang my company to get recovery sorted and the told me they would be there by 820, this was
now coming up to 7. A bus then came and the driver helped me jack it up and put one more bolt on so we could move the car out of the way. The recovery turned up at after half 8 and took me to the local peugeot and i left it with them. Then they didn't have any courtesy cars, so i walked into town to get the bus!!!! Ironically it was the same bus driver who helped me took me home and he never charged lol. I finally got home just before 10. As im writing this i got a call from the garage saying someone had put new tyres on a car that had 89 miles when i picked it up. So it never came from the factory like that, basically someone had taken the wheels off and put them back on but not tight enough. So because of this it aint covered by warranty so they now have to check with lease comapny if they are ok to replace the nuts. Thankfully they are now going to want to know how this happened to a new car, so someone will hopefully get their asses kciked. I am lucky it could have happened at 70mph+ im just grateful it never, but what a carry on. Ive now been up 22 1/2 hours and im fionally off to bed only to be woke up by the garage ringing to say the cars done and im back working again tonight at half 7. GOODNIGHT :yawn2:
Well i got a new company car last friday an 08 plate 307 estate picked it up on 89 miles. I was working nights last night in a placed called Brandon in Co Durham (about 30 mins from home) and i had been up since 1pm.I left at 545 this morning as i got about halfway home i heard a clunking coming from under the car somewhere. So i got out to check to see if id ran something over and was dragging it alone, but no. Now obviously i didn't think it would be any parts of the car as it only had 400 odd miles on it to date. So i carried on home and got home at 615. The noise got worse when i got round the corner from home, so basically i just got home. As i went to parallel park the car behind my own the clunks got worse and all of a sudden the car stopped still and wouldn't move. I got out and 2 of the wheel nuts had cam out and were on the floor. Also the locking nut was missing, it must have been the first noise i heard. So the front passenger wheel was on by only one nut! I couldn't move the car and i park on a main bus route and was blocking both sides of the road. So i rang my company to get recovery sorted and the told me they would be there by 820, this was
now coming up to 7. A bus then came and the driver helped me jack it up and put one more bolt on so we could move the car out of the way. The recovery turned up at after half 8 and took me to the local peugeot and i left it with them. Then they didn't have any courtesy cars, so i walked into town to get the bus!!!! Ironically it was the same bus driver who helped me took me home and he never charged lol. I finally got home just before 10. As im writing this i got a call from the garage saying someone had put new tyres on a car that had 89 miles when i picked it up. So it never came from the factory like that, basically someone had taken the wheels off and put them back on but not tight enough. So because of this it aint covered by warranty so they now have to check with lease comapny if they are ok to replace the nuts. Thankfully they are now going to want to know how this happened to a new car, so someone will hopefully get their asses kciked. I am lucky it could have happened at 70mph+ im just grateful it never, but what a carry on. Ive now been up 22 1/2 hours and im fionally off to bed only to be woke up by the garage ringing to say the cars done and im back working again tonight at half 7. GOODNIGHT :yawn2:
