Just been called at threatened with violence by Haydn of TheSmallCarCompany (01516069988)
What a way to start the day 
And whats it all about you ask?
I said “he’s good for part numbers” as in he’s the man to ask if you need a hard to find part number for you car.
For this he phone me up and threatened me 
LOL what a weirdo!!!
I was going to pop in today for some help with my Mozzie since I need some parts for him, dont think I will now
If you want to help him and then get threatened for it phone either
01516069988 or 07833910511
(do you think this is the way I should phone customers?)
what sort of conclusion did he jump to? Did you try and get your side of the story accross? Its certainly not good customer relations!
He just phoned me up. Didnt ask anything just threatened me!
<— i could imagine that was the look on your face.
A few years back I would of jumped in the car & went for a “Chat”. I now realise that getting arrested for things like this is NOT A GOOD IDEA.
Still, it looks like I will be moving near to him, so that should be FUN
What did he threaten you about???
Im confused.
I was chatting on a different forum and said “He’s good for part numbers” as in he is THE man for part numbers that are hard to find.
It seems he took offence to this. Never asked what I meant just phoned me and threatened me!
i would either mention this to the police
or pay his shop a visit
Maybe he’s been having a real bad day? :erm:
Sorry to hi-jack this thread, but Smudgersmb, did you get a message off me re: some one off CF or GRP mouldings?
which one. i get lots of emails about grp an carbon fibre
> I was chatting on a different forum and said “He’s good for part numbers” as in he is THE man for part numbers that are hard to find.
It seems he took offence to this. Never asked what I meant just phoned me and threatened me!
I think he presumed that when you said…
“He’s good for part numbers” you meant…
“He’s good for part numbers, but his parts are useless so get the numbers of him and then get the bits elsewhere” whereeas you clearly meant…
“He’s good for part numbers of strange bits because he knows his stuff, and he’s also a very good man to deal with and helpful and does everything a customer could ask”
Dave
Do you have a link to this ‘other forum’?
Thats a point 998dave. Didnt think of it that way. But he just phoned up, gobbed off then put phone done.
Still, its one way to cheer up future customers for christmas
just out of curiosity how are your phone numbers organized?
ours are
mine is 1 949 443 0209
but people in the 949 area code only need 443 0209
and 1 is for my country… because we are #1
then 949 is the area code which covers most of Orange County, then 443 is pretty local and can change everywhere and 0209 is definitely different for every number.
good question jeffburg i was just looking at the same thing… mine is set up exactly like Jeffbergs’.
As for the threats I’d go down and talk to hiom about it… nothing m,ore than talk though… 
Al
First five figures are the area code, last six figures are the phone number.
There was once this whole complex system of how the area codes worked (like you still have) when you had a local exchange and then a trunk exchange to dial through but that’s all gone now, although you can still get away with only dialing part of the area code or part of the phone nmumber in some places.
Area codes start 01 in most places, 02 in larger cities and 07 for cell phones. Other area codes are for premium rate numbers and junk, and they were going to make 05 for dedicated fax lines but there isn’t enough demand anymore.
As you probably know the country code is 44 and then you drop the 0 from the area code if dialling from overseas.
And the area codes are alphabetical.
Example that I found out the other day:
Northwich - 01606
Northampton - 01604
I always thought the first 3 digits were the area (like 016 - Manchester area etc)
It’s so confusing!
My area code is 01628, which is Maidenhead main exchange. Manchester is about 200 miles away.
The first two digits of the phone number refer to your old local exchange which has most probably been replaced by a single rack of equipment in a cupboard somewhere. My number starts 60 which was the old Burnham exchange. Cable company numbers are slightly different.
They are arranged alphabetically because they used to be printed accross a board by name so an operator in the trunk exchange could physically plug the line in when you asked them to. It’s a throwback to the old system.
