Such a dreadful experience.
Sad , on the one hand at the lack of customer service
And furious on the other at the blase response of the receptionist...
Can quite see why handing car back would loom so large in your mind.
But
@dunelm has it right.
Like much of life, there will be things that irk, annoy or upset us.
But we're resilient (I wonder if I look that up in a dictionary, if it just says "See under Gennepher"..mmhh )
And tomorrow is always another day to start afresh .
But now you're forwarned you can make a plan for next time, so you could see it as some good has come out of an awful experience....maybe.
Enjoy the MAD day.
And kudos for the telling of by Google
Big believer here, in releasing that pent up energy in such an Anglo Saxon way..
Thank you for the compliment
@jjraak
There's always new 'surprises'... it is never the same the next time so you can prepare but it will be different. Preparation is never waste of time but you just have to be aware it might appear like a completely different situation, with different parameters...
The car service people had changed all my settings on the dashboard and on the information screen. And worst of all they had changed all my mirrors. And, believe it or not they had changed the settings on the reverse camera so that when I'm reversing, it's in a different place either to the left or to the right or more up it's not the same at all. And I can't drive by that now to reverse easily into a tight space, or into my driveway which is a very tight space, especially with all the cars parked in the road outside my driveway.
The first thing I did when I left that blooming garage was drive to a deserted industrial park. I let out an enormous frustrated scream and a pile of Anglo-Saxon words....
I've got out my phone to Google how to restore my settings, and of course there is no reception... another frustrated scream. No one came out of the buildings, fortunately....
So it's pressing every button on the dashboard and steering wheel to try and get a couple of essential settings I needed to be able to see that I'm used to driving with. One of them was the digital speedometer, they had taken that off completely. The analog speedometer, or whatever that is called, is right underneath my hand on the driving wheel and I need to move my body over to the right side and look under the steering wheel which is certainly not a safe option when I'm driving. I can gauge speed without even looking at speedometer but where I live it is 20, 30, 40, 20, 70, 20, 40, 20, 50, and so on. And that was just some of the first part of the journey. Changing by the minute.
Finally, I got the digital speedometer up. Then I had one more thing to do on the display, just to get me home. I completely forgot when I'm backing into my driveway (it is a very tight fit) that the mirrors had been altered by the service people (and the backing camera and alerts and alarms also had been altered), and I was too near a wall. Another almighty scream from me... but no one came out of the bungalows...I had altered the mirrors for driving home and for the rest of the traffic, but it still wasn't the same as what I had before.
I cannot turn like I used to do because of my Arthritis making me stiff, and so I am dependent on those mirrors.
Today the car's ears can have a rest.
Tomorrow, I will be driving in and out of my driveway, doing what adjustments I can, and then going to some deserted car park somewhere to get the hang of these new adjustments to the backing camera and also to spend time getting my mirrors right, backing in and out until I am 100% perfect...
I did spend this kind of time when I first got this car doing all this....