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Comment on Is RepairCare a scam? by Jo Tuttle

Jo Tuttle — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:00 +0000

Oh Dear! Having read all of these previous comments I now know that I have made a big mistake! paid £130 on 26th May for a repair on my 18 month old whirlpool dishwasher, had an engineer out who first of all said that there was nothing wrong with it till I pointed out the constant beeping! – he ordered a new panel & then a second engineer came out and said that in fact I needed a new motor which also needed to be ordered! I was then given two expected dates & was let down both times. I constantly rang & was told that they were waiting for the part & they are unable to guarantee another date? I then received a call on Saturday to say that the part was in & the engineer would call on Tuesday. Thank god for that! – I arranged for my son to be home as us mere mortals do have to work! on leaving work I called home to be told that it is still not fixed as the part was broken!!! aaahhhhhhhh someone please help me now as I am struggling to remain sane. The engineer also went on to say that this is the second time that this has happened this week! I have took to e-mailing now rather than calling & have had 2 replies from a lady in customer services called Eileen who clearly does not understand her job title! she has advised me that the estimated date now is the 10th September. What an absolute joke! -I have forwarded my e-mail to the escalation e-mail address & will continue to pursue them as this is an outrage. I have threatened rogue traders, watchdog & any other governing body to get this resolved. I wish that I had never looked a repair agent up on the internet. Thanks to all who took the time to comment, at least I know i’m not alone, & the advice has been useful.

Comment on Is RepairCare a scam? by Charles Rudkin

Charles Rudkin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:16:20 +0000

They are going to give our money back, doubtless minus the administration fee. But we’ll just take that as well. They’ve been totally useless. The entire business model is flawed

Comment on Is RepairCare a scam? by Charles Rudkin

Charles Rudkin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:26:50 +0000

Still waiting…

Comment on Is RepairCare a scam? by Charles Rudkin

Charles Rudkin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:09:14 +0000

Didn’t turn up. Waited all day. What a bunch of clowns. I’m seriously considering cancelling the credit card statement, reporting them to trading standards and kicking up whatever other stink I can.

Comment on Is RepairCare a scam? by Charles Rudkin

Charles Rudkin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:16:30 +0000

I am getting more suspicious of these guys as well. The first guy turned up fiddled with the taps and left, saying he had 15 more jobs to do. It worked on a test cycle once, and then the same fault recurred when we tried to do a proper wash. If he’d bothered to hang around or do a full wash, or carry out some diagnostics he would have found that. After two weeks waiting, an engineer is coming around tomorrow to have a look. Oddly enough, the machine started working but this time kept tripping out the electrics. However, I ran a full cycle and after tripping the circuit breaker several times, it stopped with the exact same problem Repaircare were meant to have fixed in the first – no water in the machine.

Somehow, I don’t think that three minutes labour that came out with a repair that didn’t work at all is worth 120 quid. Let’s see if they can do better tomorrow.

Comment on Installing TomTom on the Binatone X350 satnav by McrRed

McrRed — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:33:26 +0000

Ok. So I bit the bullet and went with following Davie to SimpleSatNav. Had it working within 20 minutes.
I guess all the other files being touted weren’t teh correct ones for the Binatone.

All’s well that end’s well…

Comment on Installing TomTom on the Binatone X350 satnav by McrRed

McrRed — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:12:03 +0000

Sorry for the long post (& thank you to all who’ve posted solutions above)!
Just read the entire thread and of course I’m still having problems.
Part of it is, as download sites move or get shut down, people are working with different versions.

I’ve been trying with TT7 on an X350 and keep getting “No Maps Found”.
I got TT to load straight away but because the files are different in my TT7 I can’t work out where to put the maps so TT can find them.
Tried following the Muppets Guide (though I’m not a muppet – more an old-fashioned puppet!) but no clue as to where to put the maps in my set-up. Cracked the maps following the instructions. Even made a CurrentMap.dat file to no avail.
Where are your maps found? Root? Inside the TomTom/MobileNavigator folder?

I think I could get TT6 working but would like to stay with TT7.
What to do about these maps?

Comment on Installing TomTom on the Binatone X350 satnav by Davie

Davie — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 19:13:41 +0000

Ok i ended up donating at simplesatnav.co.uk and successfully installed TomTom 7 after download, my advice to anyone would be to do the same as it’s much better and there is a “Muppets Guide” to installing in the download !!!

Comment on Installing TomTom on the Binatone X350 satnav by Davie

Davie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:03:27 +0000

Ok i have done the TomTom 6 procedure succesfully but i cannot find TomTom 7 download anywhere as you have to be a donor on simplesatnav.co.uk and no other site has it so any help would be great !!!

Comment on Installing TomTom on the Binatone X350 satnav by Davie

Davie — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:13 +0000

Hi, i just purchased a binatone X350 2nd edition sat nav and am currently awaiting arrival but i also downloaded the software for tomtom 6 and cannot see the file named TomTom directory that i have to change so is this already renamed and do i have to delete the Binatone sat nav software from the sat nav or can i just leave it there and still use the tomtom software? Any help or advice would be much appreciated and i understand that it will be easier once my sat nav arrives.
PS, do i have to leave the sd card in the sat nav and are the maps updatet to the latest maps.
Thanks , Davie !!!