stumpie
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air cond update
Was wondering if you had an update on that air cond problem - I'm also having issue with Brian Gardners at the moment - and have found out that they have apprentices doing Qualified mechanices work plus they quote what they think a job is worth not what holden suggest !!!
Hi all,
I just need to share my experiences with the air con in my VE SV6, and maybe take some advice on where to go from here...
I bought it used from Brian Gardner Holden with 23,000kms on the clock. Told the sales guy the air con seemed warm, and he promised to have it sorted before I collected the car. It appears nothing was done and like an idiot, I drove it for a year and a half before I got so frustrated I took it back while under warranty. They said it was a software issue and upgraded the software.
A few months later, with obviously nothing fixed, I got frustrated again and took it back in. Finally they looked at it and replaced the header control assembly.
A little while later, after this still hadn't fixed anything, I took it back. They looked again, and realised the 'schroder valves' (sp?) were loose, and had leaked all the gas out. So they topped it up and replaced the valves. That worked for about a week (last September), and then it seemed to go back to not working. Unfortunately, that's where the warranty ran out. It took a few months of playing with it to realise it STILL wasn't working - seemed coolish during mornings, evenings, maybe sometimes during the day. But overall - rubbish performance.
I took it back this morning, and let them know I was over it, and none of the previous fixes had worked, and I just want to know what the heck is wrong with it. I've just been called to say that in the 5 months since it was last in to get checked 2 aircon pipes, 2 aircon seals, 1 pipe seal and 1 condenser seal have all failed, to a cost of $695 to fix.
Are they seriously expecting me to believe that all of those parts failed within the past 5 months, or am I right to believe that they didn't bother checking or testing the last time it went in. It seems they just found the first faulty thing and ignored checking anything else, and put it back on the road. What if the problem had been with the brakes??? Would they just find the first thing and put it back on the road without testing???
So short of coughing up $695 for something that I believe has been a problem all along, does anyone have any advice on where to go from here???
Thanks in advance...
Rewey
Was wondering if you had an update on that air cond problem - I'm also having issue with Brian Gardners at the moment - and have found out that they have apprentices doing Qualified mechanices work plus they quote what they think a job is worth not what holden suggest !!!