I was in contact with Jonathon from the sales team regarding approved used 3 series hybrid cars 2 days ago. The plan was to come and test drive the car (BK21JLX) today (Saturday) earlier in the morning, however, as he told me the demand is high and there are 17 people interested in the car so I decided to convince my wife that we should do the trip to London from Southampton yesterday (Friday) a day earlier which means rush my work and my wife as well. I Contacted Jonathon on Thursday a day earlier and he told me Cameron will look after me as it is his day off. I contacted the branch an hour before I headed the road, and they told me the car is here and I should try to be with them at 5pm as they close at 6pm. I arrived on time, and I was really disappointed with the news as they told us the car is not here and they had taken it to the service department as it has an issue with the break. My wife was really frustrated as they have really wasted our time and rushed us for nothing. Cameron decided to get us and test the manger car which he said it does have the same packages, but all was a lie. The car is only a few months old (new cockpit) with the standard features. He told us we will get a phone call the next day from the branch to arrange to bring the car to us for a test drive and sort all the paper works with us, but this never happened. In addition, he said the manager wanted to see us to apologise about the situation, but he/she never appeared, and we decided to leave.

To my chagrin, someone scuffed my newly bought 530i. I reported it to Berry Thames Ditton, the dealers I'd bought it from, and they were most helpful in guiding me through the insurance process. In the end I got the car back as new, without paying a penny! Needless to say I was delighted.

I suffered at the hands of this dealership when they Cooper Thames Ditton. Unless they could demonstrate there had been root and branch change I wouldn't set for in the place even if they offered me a free M3 - they'd find a way to screw that up as well