New Car - would you be angry?

car not care and there should be a 'cost' in there too - I think I need a new PC

I've had many new cars over the (many) years. (Apols for sounding smug). I never once had it driven into the building for handover nor did I ever expect to.

When we collected our new car it was raining so the salesman took us through all the switches etc in the demo car which was in the showroom. He didn't want to get wet either.

maybe you should have booked delivery for one of the summer months,but then again you can still expect rain then can't you and £20.000 is not mind blowing for a new car it would get you the average family car I would think.

We have bought a brand new car on two occasions. Both Fiestas, both a huge amount of money to us at the time. On both occasions the car was ready on the forecourt. It was bad enough driving the first one away, trying to miss all the other new cars in the process. If I had had to drive out of a showroom as well I'd have been stuffed.
I hope you manage to enjoy your new car now!

I notice this is your first and only post on Gransnet Estella56. What an odd way to introduce yourself...

I too would have asked for it to be brought under cover for us to look round it.

We've never bought a new car

But if we did I would expect it to be ready on the forecourt for me.
How inconsiderate that they didn't check the weather forecast.

First world problem.

What a miserable thread with all the begrudging and bitchy comments.
Of course it's not unreasonable to expect the car to be undercover when the salesperson explains the basics and runs through the controls.

What's the issue with driving it out of a showroom or are you actually suggesting that as the OP is a woman, she must have zero spacial awareness? FFS!

And to inanely suggest that the OP should be grateful she's not in a war zone is frankly, rather vile and crass in the extreme.

Unbelievable!

Perhaps this may help to put it in perspective:
www.hindustantimes.com/india/monsoon-rain-24-excess-so-far-60-die-in-gujarat-floods/story-cTyrEPo5aEwBXWANlJ9SeO.html

Hope you didn't get too wet.

Skullduggery
Having read threads about Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, bereavement and then to see this one about someone, presumably in the UK, getting a bit wet taking possession of an expensive car really does not make me feel very sympathetic.

Skullduggery, there was no suggestion in the OP that Estella56 went on her own to collect the car.

She said 'we' and 'us'. No need to add an extra level of perceived offence...

Are you planning to post that link on every thread so we all have an opportunity to get some perspective or just on the threads that haven't had all the joy sucked from them just yet?

skullduggery ?

Can't see that there was much 'joy' on this thread from the start! Just whingeing...

Um, got the impression there wasn't too much joy on this thread to begin with. Hopefully the skies have now cleared and all are happy again.

We've never bought a new car, but whenever we have gone to pick up a nearly new car it has been waiting for us, valeted, on the forecourt.
We even chose one in the rain once, but they polished it before I picked it up.

However, I was very miffed because my hair went very curly in the damp.

I'd be chuffed if that happened to me as mine just goes wet and, well, limp. See, we are all different.

Oooh! I had to pay for mine to be curly in the 70s!

Mine wasn't so curly then, it seems to have got curlier as I've aged

I fail to see how you can be given all the instructions sitting at a desk without being shown the controls.

I don't think I would like to buy a car 'on spec', I would like to have sat in the same model even if it wasn't the exact one I was buying, try it out for comfort, size, controls and go for a test drive first.

I would expect it to be gleaming and shiny not splashed and muddy
and I don't know why it would be muddy

Every car we have bought (only one new now I recall) has been valeted and pristine inside and out.

Are you planning to post that link on every thread so we all have an opportunity to get some perspective
No, just this one which is about rain, as was my link.

Estellea56 Now had you asked nicely, for a small fee I might have been able to find a choice of brass bands to do a little concert before you drove off in your new car.

That could be a new career for me as an agent to book celebration of peoples new cars!
Trouble is at this time of year the bands are all playing carols in or outside supermarkets to boost their bands funds.
Here speaks a brass band widow.

I agree with Estelle, Greyduster and Shandi. I am not into cars in the least( Mine is 17 yrs old), but whatever I go to buy I expect to be treated like a valued customer, and arriving to see my new car sopping wet for me to get into would have annoyed me.

As for saying that £20.000 could go to help the poor, that is an appalling comment , nobody but nobody has the right to tell others how to spend their money, totally out of order imo.

Well as I don't have a car, and cycle (often in the rain )on most days I think it's ludicrous to moan about the weather when you collect your brand new shining vehicle it's not as if it s never going to be out in the rain they are made to be in all weathers
Enjoy it, and be glad it's new and watertight how can it being wet spoil the occasion ?
If it was a garden party maybe but collecting a watertight vehicle big fuss about nothing

Off piste, but I once test drove a convertible car in the rain. Decided not to buy one...