• VEHICLE INSPECTION

    Posted by George Elsmore on October 4, 2007 at 11:03 am

    Hi All, do any of you have a template of an inspection sheet. When a customer brings in a vehicle do you go over the vehicle with the customer checking for scratches dents blemishes etc as you do with a hire car. if indeed you do it at all. I have been in this game for 11 years and never done this and indeed never had any come backs until recently which is a warning.

    I hope this makes sense

    G

    Jason Xuereb replied 16 years, 7 months ago 6 Members · 6 Replies
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  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    October 4, 2007 at 11:53 am

    George, I have a customer who has a hire car business, will be seeing him tomorrow and will ask him for a copy of what he uses if thats any good.
    I have only had this once myself, brand new van at dealership. Dealership tried to tell customer I had marked the van because they had inspected it prior to my applying graphics.
    They tried to tell the customer I had damaged it with a squeegee when I applied the graphics but had no answers when I lifted a couple of letters and the marks were under the vinyl !!

  • George Elsmore

    Member
    October 4, 2007 at 12:03 pm

    That would be great Martin, the whole subject is a minefield and we are open to allsorts of accusations so we need to cover our own a$$es so to speak

    G

  • Peter Mindham

    Member
    October 4, 2007 at 8:22 pm
    quote George Elsmore:

    That would be great Martin, the whole subject is a minefield and we are open to allsorts of accusations so we need to cover our own a$$es so to speak

    G

    And for some of us thats a big area to cover!

    Peter

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    October 4, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    how about your own template.
    outline drawing of a van,
    a key of abbreviations =

    a small scratch
    b small thumb size dent
    c etc

    write a letter on the drawing in the appropriate place.
    customer signs as correct ?

    chris

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    October 4, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    had never thought of this, glad you mentioned it,

    that said, i think the newest van i’ve done has been several months old, many of them i’m sure, use vinyl to hold the van together !

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    October 5, 2007 at 10:43 am

    You could modify this form I got off an American Forum:

    http://www.mediapoint.com.au/1240-custo … psheet.pdf

    Any damage get the customer to sign it before you proceed applying anything to the vehicle.

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