So as some of you know I liked Mercedeses (sp?) because of their superior build quality thats manages hitting random brick walls and keeps the driver and passengers safe.
Over the years car manufactures were cutting costs every way they can and for a long time tyres were their target - BMW went with run flats and that justified (in their view) removal of spare tyre, some other cars had small tulipy wheel to replace flat tyre. My motor (fecking ML 63 AMG with list price of like £110k) has normal tyres and zero spare wheel, this was known in advance and my heart was warmed by the fact that I am covered by so-called "Mercedes Roadside Assistance", number to which was helpfully displayed in a sticker on drivers door.
Yeah, sounds good - at least Merc will turn up fully knowing this model won't have a spare wheel of any kind and sort me out.
Or so I thought.
Turned out that these feckers asked a lot of questions (nevermind they could not find car by its reg plate, so had to give them VIN number), and one final was - where did you service your car last? Turns out Mercedes Roadside Assistance is only for people who service their cars AT THE DEALER! And I don't use local because they tried to rip me off £10k on the first Merc I owned, so using specialist who are great price and quality wise. No fooking where it says you have to service car at the dealer - they should have fooking put it on sticker if it was the case!
And also the wheel was removed to improve my fuel efficiency - 5.5 liter engine doing less than 20 mpg in town sure massively benefited from that!
The fooking chunts left me on the road with the only helpful suggestion they call RAC for me (paid option but they don't know how much it would cost).
Thanks for nothing you Mercedes Roadside Assistance fooks!
Got back home now
P.S. I do have the AA but a fair assumption was that Mercedes are more suitable to handling situation when fooking car got zero spares whatsoever.
Over the years car manufactures were cutting costs every way they can and for a long time tyres were their target - BMW went with run flats and that justified (in their view) removal of spare tyre, some other cars had small tulipy wheel to replace flat tyre. My motor (fecking ML 63 AMG with list price of like £110k) has normal tyres and zero spare wheel, this was known in advance and my heart was warmed by the fact that I am covered by so-called "Mercedes Roadside Assistance", number to which was helpfully displayed in a sticker on drivers door.
Yeah, sounds good - at least Merc will turn up fully knowing this model won't have a spare wheel of any kind and sort me out.
Or so I thought.
Turned out that these feckers asked a lot of questions (nevermind they could not find car by its reg plate, so had to give them VIN number), and one final was - where did you service your car last? Turns out Mercedes Roadside Assistance is only for people who service their cars AT THE DEALER! And I don't use local because they tried to rip me off £10k on the first Merc I owned, so using specialist who are great price and quality wise. No fooking where it says you have to service car at the dealer - they should have fooking put it on sticker if it was the case!
And also the wheel was removed to improve my fuel efficiency - 5.5 liter engine doing less than 20 mpg in town sure massively benefited from that!
The fooking chunts left me on the road with the only helpful suggestion they call RAC for me (paid option but they don't know how much it would cost).
Thanks for nothing you Mercedes Roadside Assistance fooks!
Got back home now
P.S. I do have the AA but a fair assumption was that Mercedes are more suitable to handling situation when fooking car got zero spares whatsoever.
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