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  1. Autocorrection on a mobile phone plays dirty tricks. At least it doesn't change dirty words like duck, or count, or even tanker.
  2. Bodgers alert! They don't know how to fix the roof and have attempted a repair which has failed. The "engineer" is not an "engineer" but a "technician", here in uk many unqualified people claim of being engineers after a weekend course in how to service a car. My advise is to go on a Saab forum and ask advice there. Surely there's someone in the country who's good at fixing these roofs and there is where you should go. Then bill the garage accordingly.
  3. You can't refuse permission to share the report, but you can see it before it's passed to your employer and make comments. Nowadays, after so many reports to the gmc, our company OH type up the report there and then and agree on what was said in the presence of the employee, which is a much better system. In my experience some OH dpt are better than others, same as the officials making the report. So, I always suggest to secretly record the meeting so to have a better memory of what was said vs report. Also (but this was never done) if worse comes to worse the recording could be disclosed to the relevant people. If you find that the report is grossly wrong or diagnosis are made, first of all you should ask for the gmc number of the person writing the report. This usually triggers panic, deep fear, because they know they're not prepared and they're biased. OH workers know the consequences of being reported to gmc, so they'll try to avoid it. So summarising: next step is to tick the box "I would like to see the report before is sent to my manager". Then when you go in, record the meeting, it's not illegal. (It's illegal to disclose it to 3rd parties and not always)
  4. NEVER TRUST A MANAGER. When the ship is sinking they will push you and take the last life jacket. However, in my life I met 2 managers who resigned rather than screw their staff, so there's a small minority of human managers out there, it is just a very, very small minority.
  5. Ok, your health and safety union rep should be helping you, even if you're not in the union, so ask for their help. My opinion: your employer is just following standard procedures. It is not at all unusual to be employed for certain duties and then do just half of them for years and years, but you're still contracted to do everything in your job description. For example, bus drivers' main duty is to drive buses, however, there are duties listed in their job description that they'll never perform, moving company cars or taking drivers to remote book on points being two of them. This is because there are drivers who do that on a regular basis and never drive a bus: this doesn't mean that they are exempt from driving a bus. If they are off sick, occupational health will report that they're not fit to drive a bus, despite them not driving a bus for years. This is a true example by the way. So, my advice is: go with the flow and let OH do their bits. What you have to say at every meeting is that you are improving and you will be fit for full duties in the near future. Use exactly these words. Don't go too much into what duties, how near is near future or anything else. The only thing the penpushers are interested is to tick the box marked as "improvement ongoing" or similar, so keep them sweet and you'll be back doing the duties you've been doing for the past 2 years without much of a problem. Let them hear what they want to hear and don't go into much details. Again, a good union rep would do this for you if you're in a union or at least advise if you're not.
  6. Read and implement the customer service guide fully and to the letter, then you will be equipped with best evidence to sort them out. The customer service guide seems to having been written for insurance, so read it.
  7. Calculations must be made using working time, not calendar time. In your case I would calculate as follow: 37hrs/5 working days= 7.4 hours worked per day £20232/261 working days per year =£77.52 this is the daily rate £77.52×12.2=£945.75 261 working days is the result of 365 x 5/7, as 5 days out of 7 are working days. You get to a similar result dividing by 52 weeks, but a year is slightly longer.
  8. Why is it upsetting? Is he lieing? At what points? That will be more or less his defence, so you better know what statement is incorrect, a judge wouldn't care much if you find it upsetting. And he seems prepared on firing back about the irrelevant parking sensors and A/C not working properly: remember, it's a 13 year old car. As much as it's been looked after, it can't be defect free, so don't even mention these also because you were advised at point of sale. Also, all well and good to claim for inconvenience, but £5/day storage to keep the car outside your house... The other thing is the mileage which you are calculating at 3p, i'm sure he will be able to get at least 10p from any judge. Top it all up with the 1800 miles driven with the fault on the car (if it's true) and he'll have a pretty defence, not just a 'not me gov'. Get your horses together and gather facts based on evidence rather than hearsay, that's my advise.
  9. In fact this dealer is trying his best to appear decent and down to earth at the same time. Makes me wonder where the truth lies... Maybe in the middle?
  10. After reading that I am not too confident that a judge would order a refund in a 2 minute hearing. 2 sides of the same story, make very different stories.
  11. Did i read this correctly??? We are talking about a "secured underground parking where access can be gained with a remote control" and parking bays are numbered and individually assigned. Who's the genius who gave access to these cowboys to issue pcn??? They're surely getting a cut, no doubt about it. That's what you should start contesting, of course after telling the cowboys to go back to the wild west shovelling cows' manure.
  12. I don't think so. They can say whatever they want, but if they don't specify, any motorist can interpret the sign wrongly and park during restricted hours without knowing it. Am or pm must be specified. This is the best comment.
  13. Have you had a VCDS scan? It could be a lot of things, some simple, some more complicated. My money is on the turbo. Not that you would care now, but the warranty people should suggest this. Anyhow, reject and hope to get your money back.
  14. I would go all the way to adjudication. Their explanation that 10 means 10am is very weak: how is someone supposed to know if you don't write it down. This is exactly right. As the council has not bothered to specify am or pm, i read the first sign as "no stopping 10pm-5am except taxis" and the second sign as "loading only 5am-10am". Prove me wrong i would say to these cowboys.
  15. As far as i know, the parking company would need the landlord permission to operate, not the leaseholders'. Then of course the landlord would ask the opinion of the leaseholders, after all they live there.
  16. Are you the owner of the freehold of the parking bay or the leaseholder? It makes a difference to whether you should display or not the permit. In any case, don't pay anything and the private parking experts will guide you.
  17. Some judges don't like proceedings run via email, that's why I suggested to follow up the email with a recorded delivery copy. At the end of the email you could put: "this communication has also been sent via Royal mail recorded delivery (123467985457gb)" or something similar in the letter, accordingly to what you send first.
  18. WIZZ AIR UK LIMITED Company number 10982241 Registered office address Main Terminal Building, London Luton Airport, Luton, United Kingdom, LU2 9LY
  19. No, do it yourself. Send them a reply explaining that a defective tyre is not classed as extraordinary circumstances because if they had carried out due and diligent maintenance, they would have avoided the situation. Give them 14 days to pay you compensation accordingly to the table of European Regulations 261/2004. Once they don't pay, issue a lba and give another 14 days. At this point most likely they will pay. Make sure you send all correspondence via recorded delivery as well as email, so they can't claim of knowing nothing about it. Get their uk address from companies house.
  20. I have to disagree with BF on one point: a clutch can be burnt in a very short period of time and surely it is possible within 2 and 1/2 years. That's why they want to open it up and see what's happened to it, but unfortunately the op could only go with what they say which inevitably will be "driver's error or driving style". It's really a tricky one, especially because they want you to risk a lot of money. Best thing to do would be to have an independent specialist looking at the clutch and give a professional opinion, but surely Peugeot will think that there's nobody more expert than their own mechanics.
  21. The dealer won't give you anything because you had the car for 18 months and he's right. Would be almost impossible to prove that the fault was present at point of sale unfortunately. If it's a known ford problem, is there a recall? If not, have you got any evidence of ford replacing the engine under warranty? Remember, a bloke on the internet saying something is not a good piece of evidence. Others will comment about the finance part of this case, maybe the finance company might have to swallow the loss or part of it, but i don't know this, not my field.
  22. If he was a builder he might own assets (tools), but as he's a specialist trade, whatever that is, sounds like he won't have any tools to be used for payment. Correct?
  23. What sort of business are we talking about? Something tangible (building trade) or virtual (IT consultancy, door to door sale)?
  24. There's always a chance that the car could be stolen and then torched. With a bit of luck the local lowlife will notice the abandoned vehicle (or be advised of its location)...
  25. I'm surprised he keeps the car there with all the kids on microscooters and bikes and mums with chained handbags scratching everything in their path. Unless he's one of the scrap dealers dressed up as a car dealer, the same ones we hear about here on cag.
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