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TeaAndBrie · 04/01/2025 19:08

So my car is having issues, I spilt a drink in the passenger footwell a week ago. The car was still working fine and I was advised it was safe to keep driving when I Took it to a garage yesterday, they couldn’t sort it but recommended someone else. He can look at it but not for a couple of weeks.
Today it wouldn’t start at all.
i contacted the AA and 6 hours later the AA arrived. Not an issue because I was at home but still a long time.
I felt like I was being told off by my dad. He kept asking if I understood that it was serious. It was an accident and he made me feel so stupid. He told me that cars can’t function if the electrics don’t work and that water conducts electricity 🙄
he told me that the garage only said it was fine to get rid of me and that no one will want to touch it.
I understand what I’ve done but it wasn’t on purpose and as a paying customer I don’t need to be told off.
currently researching RAC membership instead…

OP posts:
Chowtime · 04/01/2025 19:11

ExtraOnions · 04/01/2025 19:10

How does spilling a drink in your car stop it working ?

Yes. Thats extraordinary. Surely the electrics are in the engine, not the bit under the footwell.

Onlyvisiting · 04/01/2025 19:11

I'm sorry, wtf kind of car can't handle a spilled drink in the foot well? Was it literally on the floor? Where wet feet go?

TeaAndCake28 · 04/01/2025 19:10

Complain.

ExtraOnions · 04/01/2025 19:10

How does spilling a drink in your car stop it working ?

BallerinaRadio · 04/01/2025 19:10

It sounds like he was just doing his job to me