on February 10, 2014, 7:23 pm, in reply to "Re: Citroen Picasso 2.0 2006 -The curious case of the misleading diagnosis - Fixed #"
We told her to drive it in and we'd listen to it. She duly arrives I trot out with a scanner (to see what fault is logged) jump in & shut the door.
Before I could turn the ignition on she says, "there it is did you hear it?" - She was stood outside the car & I was inside, I didn't hear a thing. So I get out of the car and heard a 1 second beep every 15 seconds or so (car is now shut & ignition off) - the noise is coming form the area where she's stood, I walked around the car & she followed me muttering "there it is again, can you hear it?". Everywhere I went she followed & so did the noise. "Do you have a mobile phone on you?" I asked, "why" she said followed by "oh no" - Blonde + Car + Mobile going flat & beeping = Bad mix.
2. Last week, I serviced a 2011 Passat Auto while the customer went shopping, he turned up just as we finished, so I parked the car on the forecourt by the reception door for him, (less distance to walk). He paid his bill, got in the car & started it - a couple of minutes later he's still sat there, but he's looking down, to the side, up, back down again etc..... I walked over & asked if there was a problem, he replied, "I can't find the handbrake" - he'd had the car from new!
He was neither blonde, female, no big knockers, etc strange how he got a sterner look than the blonde who ticked all the boxes in the first example who received a shrug a smile & a quick take of vital statistics?
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