22-01-2020, 09:29 AM
(22-01-2020, 03:57 AM)A G Wood Wrote:Nothing new there: I think it was John Ward who regaled us with the tale of a friend who wanted to buy a Sunbeam Alpine back in the 1960s. As it happened, said friend went on a factory tour before ordering his car, and he happened to notice that the heater was the first item to be installed into the bodyshell. So when he came to order his car hid did not tick the box for the (optional) heater; when the car arrived (complete with heater) he refused to take delivery, pointing out that he did not want to pay the extra charge. The car was sent to the workshops to have the heater removed ... only for the workshop foreman to appear, swearing and cursing, saying there was no way he was going to take that bl***y heater out, it would take all day. So the car was duly invoiced out, less heater charge, complete with factory-installed heater!... For a good example of embuggerance from my day, on one popular Australasian sedan, if your HVAC control unit packed it in [usually down to an internal electronic component fail Wrote: it was necessary to remove the entire dashboard and instrument panel assembly A pillar to A pillar- everything you see when you sit in the front seat- (a two man job btw) to remove and replace said control unit... pid='40137' dateline='1579604291']