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[nogbad]

I took my Trophy for its second service this week, my first visit to an MG dealership for such excitment (I bought it pre-loved so the first service was undertaken in someone else's ownership).

The garage recommended that I might need new rear boots next year, to which my response was "No shit, Sherlock, let's think about that next year". They also recommended some kind of AC disinfection so that I don't catch some dread disease, I'll probably skip that too - AC hasn't killed me yet...

Anyway, the reason for my post; they've provided a video of my car up on a lift and a blokey checking the tyre depth and the brakes (pads & discs). Is this standard? Has anyone else got a "free" video ("free" in that it is part of something that cost just shy of £190) of the underside of their motor? Is there a market for this kind of smut on <ahem!> specialist web sites?

 

[webhiker]

It's standard for most brands in Denmark at least. I've had it for the last 10 years

 

[JohnV6]

Ditto for ji end brand service centres inthe UK in my experience. The local garage doesn't do it but then they don't charge £120 plus per hour

 

[mystreet]

Have it for my KIA. Also try the upwell. Got a amber warning on tyre depth of ONLY 5.5mm. Told them to let me know when it was under 2.5mm.

 

[MG Clive]

Not with the MG, but I got video progress reports from VW when I had the Polo in for service.

 

[LenEV2016]

Standard for Cupra

 

[T1 Terry]

Most service centres over here now have a body cam on the "service technician" to show you what they actually did and any things they found during the service .... I'm guessing to justify the price and in the hope they look to be at least a bit transparent in what they are charging the big $$ for .... so many shonky characters ended up in the trade over here when so many tradesmen who took pride in their work simply walked away and found better paying jobs with less pressure to upsell stuff that really didn't need to be done .....

Just about every automotive service place over here has standing vacancies of 2 or 3 employees that they simply have never been able to fill over the last 5 to 10 yrs ..... some of them simply went to the wall because no one wanted to have their name associated with the reputation those places had won themselves

T1 Terry

 

[Kenp1]

Yes, Kia and Mazda do the same.

 

[Bam Bam]

MG Oxford provides a link to a video of the underside with the tyre tread check.

I guess you don't get to see the underside normally and it shows that they have checked the tyres accurately. Some reassurance they followed all their processes and didn't make it all up.

 

[nogbad]

I took my Trophy for its second service this week, my first visit to an MG dealership for such excitment (I bought it pre-loved so the first service was undertaken in someone else's ownership).

The garage recommended that I might need new rear boots next year, to which my response was "No shit, Sherlock, let's think about that next year". They also recommended some kind of AC disinfection so that I don't catch some dread disease, I'll probably skip that too - AC hasn't killed me yet...

Anyway, the reason for my post; they've provided a video of my car up on a lift and a blokey checking the tyre depth and the brakes (pads & discs). Is this standard? Has anyone else got a "free" video ("free" in that it is part of something that cost just shy of £190) of the underside of their motor? Is there a market for this kind of smut on <ahem!> specialist web sites?

Okay, it seems to be a standard and has been for a while. I guess that the bloke who did my old cars (and they were old!) didn't bother with this stuff. I've joined the modern world!

 

[Anon70]

Yep standard for years from my Mini/BMW dealer

 

[T1 Terry]

A bit like that, I was out of my mechanical workshop by the end of the last century, my business thrived on trust ... maybe because I was happy to take the customer into look at what we found on their vehicle and let them assess if I was being honest with them or not .... that generated an enormous amount of that magic , free word of mouth promotion .... and I'd happily take them through all the steps in a dyno tune so they fully understood exactly what was happening and just how much knowledge I was bringing to work on their car ..... building and tune drag race winning street cars really does filter down to tuning any vehicle, you can be confident putting 10,000km warranty on ever job .....

The line was "You might only expect your vehicle to go from home to work and back, or just to drop the kids off at school and do the shopping .... but you can have that confidence that if something happened you could drive interstate without worrying if the car would make it or not"
That cost me close to a nervous breakdown and loss of a family and eventual bankruptcy due to alcohol abuse and late night partying until the sun was up and the next day was waiting ..... the life of a passionate mechanic that believes in what he does is very hard on the person, sub contract industrial fitting pays more than twice as much and at the end of a 12 hr shift ... because they won't allow you work all night trying to catch up, means you can go home and leave it all behind .......

T1 Terry

 

[Rip Van]

Dickson's Inverness have been doing for, I don't know how long.

 

[Chrisdriving]

Had video with Nissan and MG .

 

[salty]

Yep, got the video, on my X Power's 1st service, from MG Chorley. Basically tyres and Brakes, all ok. Cost £143