getting your car/truck serviced

[Pete_G]

[rant] WTF is with service techs, service advisors, and mechanics in general these days? Why is putting a cover over my seats before your drive my vehicle in for service or take it for a test drive such a challenge? Maybe I'm getting old and it's considered old fashioned now (or I just take my truck to idiots) but I seem to remember in the past people always, to be on the safe side, slipped a cover over my seat before hopping in. My truck is always spotless, I WANT IT RETURNED THAT WAY. $%^*$ YOU. IF YOU MIGHT HAVE GREASE ON YOUR JUMPSUIT STAY THE #@$%^#%$ OUT.

If I have to spend another afternoon trying to remove a grease stain from my expensive neoprene seat covers there's going to be trouble. This is the 2nd time this year some grease monkey pulled this stunt. [/rant]

[outfished]

Don't mean to be a wise *ss Pete, but ever consider covering your seats yourself before handing your precious possession to a greaser? Buy a cheapo cover or blanket and don't take the risk.

[missing link]

i'm like you i keep my truck spotless, if i see somthing wrong with my truck before i leave the shop/ dealership... i dont leave till its cleaned, done, or fixed.

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by outfished

Don't mean to be a wise *ss Pete, but ever consider covering your seats yourself before handing your precious possession to a greaser? Buy a cheapo cover or blanket and don't take the risk.

Apparently I'm going to have to. People are just too stupid/lazy these days.

It shouldn't be something I have to point out to someone or do myself. "Please don't get garage floor grease and grime all over my seats when you work on my truck" should NOT be something I have to say before leaving my truck.

Plastic bag over the seat and paper on the floor should be standard procedure for any service visit anywhere.

Maybe being in a job where customer service matters a lot makes me sensitive to it. But I just don't understand how a dealership could allow a customer's vehicle to leave their business like that, especially when it could be so easily avoided.

[Raven]

agreeing with outfished:
save yourself the work of a clean-up by covering the seats prior to bringing it to them.... knowing that its easier to remove the plastic seat protection and subsequent mess than it is to clean it or change the repair peoples habbits. but i hear ya.... i once had some broken brake lines and had my truck towed to a service station.... then i ducktaped a huge sign inside
that read: absolutely NO BRAKES -> broken brake lines !!!
and the Friggan idiot technician
drove it to fast and Crashed it into the LIFT.... inside.!

[TheSpecialist]

Bring them the seat covers, and the receipt tell them it was spotlesss when you brought it to them. Then tell them you could not get the grease out and you want new covers. They will learn...

[fishaholic18]

Originally Posted by Pete_G

Plastic bag over the seat and paper on the floor should be standard procedure for any service visit anywhere.

I worked at a Dodge dealership as a tech. since 1988 and it is standard procedure, more so nowadays. We had weekly meetings reminding us of it. I'd talk to the service manager, he should do what he has to to make you happy, mine always did. If that doesn't work, call the manufacturer rep., that is if it's a dealershipip you're dealing with, they will come down on the dealer like a ton of bricks.

[MotoXcowboy]

again, I am reminded of the wise old saying..

"If you want something done right, do it yourself"