Newer Cars!?

[Toms306]

Tom you can't say it doesn't happen often. As I said dealer garages wouldn't be in business. The amount of miles I do, especially on motorways and the amount of sub 5 year old cara I see on the hard shoulder (normally Audi or BMW which pleases me greatly) broken down, or with steam pouring out of them or massive puddles of some pretty important fluid on the floor is quite shocking tbh

Thats because all the old cars have broken down before reaching the motorway.

Tbh, dealers don't get much 'fixing' work anyway. I've worked at both Honda and Ford, and the majority of stuff they do is servicing and PDIs (pre delivery inspections). Infact they've got so little work especially atm (well back in January) becuase newer cars dont require fixing so much, and people will leave niggly faults as they dont have much money atm that at Fords we were literally waiting around for jobs to come in! And at Honda I only remember seeing a knackered autobox and a misfuel, everything else was servicing or leaky civic rear lights (they were the new leaky shape at the time lol)...in two weeks work experience!

I can obviously only go on my experiences, and we've all seen the Jag's/Audis broken down. But every new car I've had experience with - Hyundai i10, Hyundai Matrix, Skoda Fabia, Citroen C3, Suzuki Swift - wide range of lower end cars and have never had to have anything fixed, especially no major breakdowns.