lucky phil
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All true but not the reality. One person "mint" is another persons Meh. When I collect a new car and the sales person is crapping on about the pretty Bow on the hood or the "big reveal" and photo's of me with my new car I'm there shooing him away to do the paperwork while I have a thoroughly good inspection of the quality of what I'm handing over my money for. One of our new cars my wife noticed a slight mark on the headlight assembly and although it shouldn't be there the reality is even for me "Mr pedantic" it's not worth the risk/reward calculation. They are after all mass produced and part of the risk/reward calculation is also the "defect to mental health"' aspect. Aiming for totally perfect from a mass produced product is a recipe for insanity. In addition to that there are so many areas that you have know idea about. A friend of mine that worked for À major manufacturer"' here in their test cells carrying out engine calibration and endurance testing all day every day had a task at one point to test a random selection of imported engines for performance and oil consumption. There had been a few hundred engine show up in the country for fitment to cars here that they had been advised had out of round bores and they needed to run a test programme to ascertain whether or not they were actually useable or needed to be scrapped.Sorry but if a crappy Chevy Spark can come in *mint* condition, it is very well expected in this day and age to get a 60K car in MINT condition. Anything less than that is how dealers sell their "as is" used cars!
If they're not taking any pride in their dealership and the quality it brings onward, then they shall stop selling cars and let direct ship to customer model take over.
They decided at the end to use them, ahem, but there were customers that had brand new cars with "less than optimal" shall we say engines. So there's always something it's just you don't know about it yet or maybe ever. Better that way so life's not more complicated than it is already.
Phil
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