Car transporters thrashing cars?

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Originally Posted by pottery beige

five litres of petrol and some matches would have fixed that panel shop.....

Gotta love fighting fire with fire....

[anto]

Originally Posted by spebgtsprint

XCWILLO, you' have been hard done by full stop. If I was you I would further pursue the matter, don't let the plonkers fob you off.

As a side note, when I won the Unique Cars FREEHO last year, a big dilemma was getting it transported from Melbourne to Perth "in one piece". As we all know the cars get dropped off to a yard in Melbourne onto a truck, then the truckie offloads the car in Adelaide onto a train (usually) then the Train/Truck attendant the Perth side moves it again..... To put it bluntly we didn't want to trust just anyone.

In the end we paid Alan's Unique Car carriers literally twice as much as what was quoted by Toll/Ceva.But it was worth every last penny. "Peace of mind."

Actually when the car arrived at my house it was sandwiched inbetween a Maserati and a Ferrari, being delivered to the luxurious car dealer Barbagallo's!! FREEHO couldn't complain about the company it was with for the trip across.

I paid these yahoos 3k to transport my XBGT from Perth to Adelaide thinking I'd get silver service.... All I got was some cranky dipshit driver getting angry at me because he couldnt find my place, complaining the tyres were flat when he picked it up, even though they werent ...the was covered in mud, and best of all he decided to drop the car off in the middle of a busy road about 20 meters away from my house knowing the car was not running .... all with a smug look on his face. friggin asswipe

I wont recomend them to anyone, thats for sure.

[DRM ON]

Originally Posted by steve.zissou

another reason to get one of these:

http://www.autoblackbox.com.au/index...&product_id=83

A lot of jerks out there.

wow this is a really good idea.

[Uncle Niceguy]

my dad was in the navy for twenty years and what we did everytime our cars were towed long distances (interstate) we empty the fuel tank get a 5 litre jerry can fill it and put that in they cant do **** when the fuel metre reads zero.

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Originally Posted by xboss

The last car I had transported, I got the seller to write the odometer reading on some masking tape and stuck it to the steering wheel. He sent a photo of it to me as proof of the odometer reading at the time the car was picked up.
The reason we stuck it to the steering wheel was so anyone who jumped in the car knew that we had checked the reading on the odo.
When I picked up the car, it still had the same odo reading.

Forklifts come in handy eh..............

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To the OP, really sorry to hear mate. Write a letter of demand for the damages and send it to them. They're insured for this sort of thing, be persistent and don't cop their BS. Tell them you plan on pursuing the matter through the courts as the damage is that extensive. If they brush you off tell them "thanks for your time, we'll be in touch"
Document everything, all your info and talk to your dad for verification of the facts.
Go hang out at the yard of toll with a camera, take some footage of cars being abused. Once you've got some evidence then ring the morons at ACA and tell them that you have evidence of cars being thrashed, and forward it on to them. Sit back and watch the fun begin.

As for idiots abusing cars, I know the guy Roger who around 7 years ago worked at Ferrari at Rushcutters Bay. He took a test drive of a trade in, and wrote it off in the tunnel at Kings Cross. He lost his job over it, and now is relegated to working at his Dads auto electrical in South Strathfield.

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Sorry to bring back an old thread but i'd suggest people who are worried bout there cars being driven to drain the tans empty and fill it with a few litres of fuel enough to get it on and of the trailer thats it. If it runs out the yards usually have a jerry to fill up with to get it going if not i get paid extra when the car has to be pushed on the trailer.

[Full Noise]

When I sold my GT-P to a bloke in Perth, I sent it over there on the train. I took around 20 close up photos of the car while they were filling out the condition report. I even took pictures of the staff while they were doing it.
They went right over it and they noted anything that could be an issue.

I then e-mailed the pics to the bloke in Perth so he could see for himself.

I didn’t hear back from the bloke so I guess that it was still in one piece when it got there.

Accidents can happen, that’s just a fact of life but deliberate abuse and unknown kilometres are unacceptable.

Moral of the story, don’t trust anyone.