Taxi Driver Online

My sister had a cambelt go on her renault and the garage rebuit her engine for nothing because they had fiited the belt and it was within the mileage GO TO CITIZENS ADVICE NOW

that might be the best thing in the end.
not a good story though.
hope you spread the word that that gargae is scum.

update from March 06, mates vehicle/taxi still stuck in garage at 10 quid a day storage charge, still no word from finance company about why he stopped payments in March of this year

his accountant says go bankrupt to clear as he has no assets.

Stinky Pete, what make of car was it that the belt went on
and Scot aka what cars are you using.

I dont know the answer.i,m no lawyer.but then of course i know lots of them they work for us and OUR MEMBERS and this is the sort of case we deal with for free. So the answer is obvious join the union,too late on this one though.ORGANISE EDUCATE AGITATE

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Why don't you take the case on anyway, terry, out of the goodness of your heart, to show us all what a diamond geezer you are. I might consider (re) joining.

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Former taxi driver

Jimbo are you seeing the light? this just one example of what you can suffer if you are on your own.cant spend any money on lawyers but could make a few phone calls threatening all sorts of AGG too garage.some times does the trick.Get the guy too call me.07958275339.must point out my members bollock me alarmingly for spending their cons on non members,however i feel extremely sorry for this guy. where do i send your membership form?????????????????
EDUCATE EDUCATE EDUCATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The driver is still working, but renting now , I will see him later in the evening, will give him your phone contact number, I see no problem with him joining, lets see what he says.

This is one of the reasons I have gone back to the cheapest car I can get, I drive a 96 omega, when the drivers window got smashed a couple of months ago, I went to the breakers and got one,£40, and fitted it myself. Even if the car is under warranty, they take forever fixing it, which means time of the road.

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stressed controller!!!

Grrrrr! I just typed a huge response and it vanished!

Haven't seen any mention of the Supply of Goods and Services Act anywhere on this thread yet! Have a good read of it. Contact your insurers and Finance House ASAP your bound to be paying for Legal Protection somewhere along the lines and use it.

The garage cannot sell the vehicle to recover costs as the finance house legally own the car - goes into the realms of theft if they attempt to!

I've got some personal experience of this kind of situation so drop me a PM and I'll give you more details; but I returned an Octavia 14 months and 120K after purchasing it as it wasn't fit for the purpose for which it was purchased and won!

2000 miles a week, I'm not surprised.

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IDFIMH

DO IT YOUR SELF AND SAVE UNION SUBS, WHAT HE FAILS TO TELL YOU IS THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO BE AMEMBER FOR SO LONG, BEFORE GETING THE BENFIT,AS i SAID BEFORE NOTHING FREE.


Charles from Bolton

In my experience the legal assistance offered by unions is not what it is cracked up to be.

If you have a case then No Win No Fee solicitors would be equally competant.

If you don't have a clear cut case then any solicitors will want some kind of retainer ....... whether they are associated with a union or not.

B. Lucky

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Skull on TDO

TF pi$$ed on his chips.

Just taking the basics of this story it seems that receiving a county court summons taken out by the garage owner is beneficial to your freind, when it arrives tell him to fill out the form and fill in the counterclaim for loss of earnings, off the top of my head i would say around £6000 but his accountant would provide the details for that, also get a letter from the main agent/dealer detailing the time the job should take, pay them for their time if you have to, make a reasonable settlement offer, say £1500, the judge will weigh up all the evidence, in my opinion your freind will win and come out of it quids in, if he doesn't win then like has been said before, tenner a week

On Monday at around 13.00 i will pick up a solicitor who will go with me to Bury a talk on behalf of a member for me, not as no win no fee but for free yes free, why well when a driver as a RTA if they want a solicotor we use this one on a no win no fee.

So he will do, not all the time but he will do this short of work for me. so members get best of both worlds.

Beat that GMB.