Heh heh heh, I’m actually talking from experience, whilst going for a test drive in the renegade I arrived to a flushed looking young lady who was very nice but had to apologise for the fact I couldn’t do said test drive as the Renegade was in the workshop for mending and had been there a few weeks but they as yet couldn’t fix it, did I want a test drive in the Fiat 500X instead as it’s the same car just a different frock, after a little think I agreed (I was only looking at the Jeep as it had an actual boot you could put things in with the near vertical shape of the back end), after all it had the same engine and almost the same kit/toys etc so off we go.
One and a half miles later I was commenting about a Costa coffee shop we had just passed and could I call in on my way back past as a test in the drive-thru kinda thing when it just stopped, no warning just a strange sort of buzzing/clicking/grinding sound (horrible) and the silence apart from the transmission whining as it quickly slowed us to a stop, luckily I wasn’t going fast and was able to pull off the road completely.
After trying to restart and turn off/on, lock/unlock etc etc etc I concluded it was kaput and suggested we go to the Costa to wait for recovery.
96 minutes later the manager turned up in a big Maserati 4 door (can’t spell the name) and took us back to the showroom. He was full of apologies and offered all sorts of discounts which I politely thanked him for and said I would come back once they had fixed the Jeep but I never did.
I did also thank the woman sales rep who was so nice and ever so embarrassed and apologetic and left her a glowing review, the same can’t be said for the brand I’m afraid and it would take an awful lot for me to even think about trying one of them again.
Pleasant but frustrating experience.