@Rhodgie the car goe’s through the same however many point saftey check they do as a comapany so it’s both to make money as they provide the info regardless of who or is not paying for it.. It’s Called standard practice.
The checks have always been attached to the actual paperwork / invoice. i got from vw with my last car. The person doing the check has on occasions done a video and sent it to me.
It’s a legal duty for them to inform you of an issue or fault to anything that could effect the road worthyness of the car now or in the near future. Whoever is driving is at fault. Unless liability can be proven otherwise.
A real example for you. my ex took her car to a fiat dealer who changed the front disks and brakes. she drove around for a while to and from work no isssues. Then she said to me the brakes are knocking everytime i Move off. I was like take my car i’m not working today, i’ll check it out.. Soon as i moved off i knew something was badly wrong, I rang green flag they came and towed me to quick fit as the fiat dealer was 25 miles away.
So anyhow he gets it on the lift. Takes off the tyre and i could see this look come on his face of shock. Fiat had took vented disks off and put standard ones on and as they thinner the pads was almost dropping out of the calipers.
Fiat paid for the new ones from quickfit and issued a full refund for the work done. could of been worse alot worse for fiat if there had been an accident because someone put the wrong disks on, The reason the car had vented was it had Asr or traction control. But if i had driven that car to kwick fit had an accident then that would be on me.. If it happened and the pads dropped out while driving and i was unaware there was a serious fault then the dealer that did the work is at fault. Law is a funny old thing.