Diesel Edition 30 WTF

[RSam84]

its not just VW dealers, i went to Ford spares department and they told me that Ford never made an Escort Rs Turbo! just pointed at mine and asked what it was to be told its an xr3i! also had a ford sales man ask me why i didnt buy my Focus Rs mk1 in that nice orange colour!

[Golfgirl]

When I used to have a Mk 4 R32 I rang up to book it in for a service and they asked what car it was.  When I said it was an R32 the reply was "is that a Golf?".

[humkar]

Haha. LMHO

This answers why the worlds in a recession. Greedy bankers and silly people in jobs they never should have even been considered for.

[vRS_Pagey]

Chatting to a Skoda dealer a while back and he didn't have a clue that the Fabia vRS had a 7 speed DSG and that it was a dry clutch.  OK perhaps a bit technical but he was arguing......!

[Tfsi_Mike]

Shocking 

[Bernhard30]

Had a similar thing looking at a Honda S2000 years back, think I got the elder salesman who was usually tasked with selling 'Jazzes' to white haired old biddies.
He cacked himself on the test drive when the VTEC took off, even with my Captain Slow type pedalling, not sure he had a clue about that car, I was telling him facts about his product.

[sub39h]

that's disgraceful. it's one of my pet peeves too! i've seen adverts of cars with the wrong interiors and stuff and there's no excuse! you don't go to the doctor and expect to know more about the condition than they do, so why do you go into a [insert manufacturer name] dealership and know more about the cars than the salesman? more than one salesman has lost a sale from me for not knowing his product. if they don't know basic questions what else don't they know? condition of the car? last service? if it's written off?

[simonp]

I was looking at Vauxhall Insignias on AutoTrader some time ago and put petrol in the fuel type dropdown box and 2.0 in the engine one. This was back when they were quite new and you'd get about 30 or so results, BUT 27 of those were 2.0CDTI models!

[Rob GTI]

When I had my K03 Leon Fr TFSI i went to book in for a service to be told the DPF needed checking I said it a petrol mate he said they have DPFs as well.

[Nasir]

I have to add some balance here, although I totally agree with you guys. They are salesman, they're good at selling products and it happens to be a car. Yes they should know about it but trust me, they do sell cars. Most people that go there aren't petrol heads so the conversation won't get too deep.