Livingstones Of Uddingston

[gman]

You may well be right,been there for a while as well,does'nt seem to have a high turnover of staff like most sales jobs.I would assume they are good to work for too.
However it was just an impulse enquiry when i saw the Leon.I'll keep the Toledo for a while yet and go for a private sale when i'm ready to change. Gives you a much better buying position as well with no trade-in.

 

[IainW]

I've just bought my new car from them and they've been brilliant. Even had a call earlier this evening asking how I was getting on with the car. Something I've never had with my previous 3 cars! Fantastic people to deal with.

 

[P0LKR]

I've just bought my new car from them and they've been brilliant. Even had a call earlier this evening asking how I was getting on with the car. Something I've never had with my previous 3 cars! Fantastic people to deal with.

Who did you deal with? David Brown by chance?

Who did you buy your last car from to compare differences.

 

[IainW]

Yeah it was David. Bought my previous car from Arnold Clark, so anything's going to be better than that!

WL Ltd had washed and valeted the car before I picked it up, fitted the locking wheelnuts, left me with more than a teaspoonful of fuel in it, fixed a problem with a fuse for the electric mirrors which I found when I was getting ready to drive away, let me have a test drive in a diesel Ibiza to see what I was buying and got a cup of coffee out of them!

Compare that to Arnold Clark who gave me a dusty unwashed car, didn't have any locking nuts fitted at all, left me with enough fuel to go to the garage along the road and fill up, probably would have asked for an appointment to fix a fuse when I was there, didn't offer me a test drive and didn't give me a coffee.

You really get the impression that Livingstones want to keep your custom and they'll go out of their way to help you, whereas AC's main aim is to shift x number of cars a day and they don't care if you come back with problems, because they'll be getting more money out of you, to make up for the bargain price you paid for your car.

 

[P0LKR]

Yeah it was David. Bought my previous car from Arnold Clark, so anything's going to be better than that!

WL Ltd had washed and valeted the car before I picked it up, fitted the locking wheelnuts, left me with more than a teaspoonful of fuel in it, fixed a problem with a fuse for the electric mirrors which I found when I was getting ready to drive away, let me have a test drive in a diesel Ibiza to see what I was buying and got a cup of coffee out of them!

Compare that to Arnold Clark who gave me a dusty unwashed car, didn't have any locking nuts fitted at all, left me with enough fuel to go to the garage along the road and fill up, probably would have asked for an appointment to fix a fuse when I was there, didn't offer me a test drive and didn't give me a coffee.

You really get the impression that Livingstones want to keep your custom and they'll go out of their way to help you, whereas AC's main aim is to shift x number of cars a day and they don't care if you come back with problems, because they'll be getting more money out of you, to make up for the bargain price you paid for your car.

David Brown is a nice guy.
My family and I have bought 4 cars from them in the last three years and with only a blip or two the service has been great. They do try and keep everybody happy. Just avoid AC as just about everybody agrees. Lots of fools go there though with the prices clouding their judgement. I had a terrible time when i bought a peugeot from Hamilton Rd a number of years back.

 

[IainW]

I bought my last car from the Rover (now Vauxhall) AC garage in Hamilton Road. Thought I was getting a bargain, but infact AC has bought about half the production run of the 2.0 Sport Ibiza, so the resale values are much lower than you would expect, because he's flooded the market with them. Infact he's still trying to get rid of them right now. Partly the reason why I decided to change my car before the value got any worse.

The servicing at Livingstones is completely different from what I've experienced before. I phoned up and was given an appointment for two days later and even had a choice of appointment times. Not like AC when you get an appointment for the next week and are told to leave it there at 8am and then they will call you when it's ready, which turns out to 5pm.

 

[CupraDaft]

Had five new cars from them now over the years and wouldn't go anywhere else.

The service has been second to none.

David Brown is a super chap on the sales side. Sandy Cochrane is the service manager who again works wonders along with Alan on the mechanics side.

We've always found they will go just that extra little bit to make everything work.

All the staff are really, really friendly.

 

[IainW]

Got my 20k service done today and was very pleased with what they charged me for it, done in an hour as well. And I got it back washed outside and hoovered inside.

 

[k4ith]

been using them for my acc/parts, Tom on parts dept is very helpfull, car was in for warranty work on wed and they gave me a bog stndrd ibiza which was a pain as i had to pick folk up with equip too.but hey it was free apart from fuel, they will get my service though when its due.

 

[pocket]

anyone know if WL have a website? ive had a look but not found anything other than the dealer address page on the seat website.

 

[alx_chung]

anyone know if WL have a website? ive had a look but not found anything other than the dealer address page on the seat website.

I don't think that they do. Usually all their cars can be found on the Seat Website when you do a Used Car Search.
Alex