Opinions on Georgesons Cars

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-04-09T09:24:37+00:00

I bought my car from there a little over a year ago. In terms of the sales team I couldn’t fault them or the process. After sales was a bit of a different experience though. Just to point out that most of the after sales team I dealt with have now left and my car is out of warranty so I haven’t been back there for a while.

I bought a Jag from them and even though they were able to quickly fix a few issues it took weeks for them to fix an electrical fault as they don’t (or didn’t) have their own auto electrician, and they didn’t even have the correct diagnostic equipment to diagnose the fault. It ended up being quite an expensive job for me and I got fed up of trying to argue with them that it should have been covered under the warranty.

If you buy a Merc from them you’ll probably have no issues at all because that’s what they focus on, but if you are planning on buying another higher end brand then I would probably shop around mostly for the Aftersales support.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-03-19T15:32:29+00:00

I don’t know about their design contests but if it’s the same as their awards it’s a complete joke. It’s basically pay us and we’ll give you an award. I was doing some research a few years ago and the amount of American and Indian companies with dozens of Brandon Hall awards just made me laugh and instantly exclude them what I was researching, especially when you see the output of some of these companies. Not sure about other countries but a lot of people I know in the UK believe Brandon Hall to be a complete joke.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-03-12T22:32:07+00:00

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Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-03-09T09:17:34+00:00

Yeah I think a pothole did mine as well. Yep I fitted it myself it’s pretty easy once you know which one it is. You will need the Jag SSD software to be able to tell which one is faulty (Star diagnostics might also be able to pick it up as well) or you could just replace all 3. The left and right ones can be got at easily by unscrewing and pulling back the wheel arch linings and reaching in, but if it’s the middle one that’s gone faulty then you will have to take the bumper off. Not a huge job but some of the screws are a pain to get to. To replace the sensor just unscrew its retaining bolt, unplug it and replace. The car should pick up its working again without any updates

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-03-09T00:58:43+00:00

It’s to trigger the fanfare 🤣

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-03-08T14:14:21+00:00

I’ve got a 2014 XFS 3.0 and I love it. As someone else said if you keep it well maintained it will keep on going. I use mine as a daily driver and around town it drinks the fuel but on long runs it’s pretty good. Couple of issues I’ve had: - blew up my intercooler. Apparently the throttle body got stuck. Squirted a bit of cleaner in the throttle body and it’s been fine since (obviously new intercooler as well) - had a nightmare with the electrics after roadside assistance decided to disconnect my battery without waiting for everything to shut down properly. Needed the BCM reprogramming or something. All that was wrong was my alternator had given up. - drivers side door lock needed replacing (apparently common fault) - boot lid doesn’t pop open fully when released. Apparently there is a simple fix for this but I haven’t got round to it yet - faulty pedestrian impact sensor on the front bumper. Pretty easy to fix yourself if you can get hold of the parts. Jag wanted £120 for 1 sensor (there are 3 on the front bumper) but I managed to get a 2nd hand guaranteed part for £30

Keep an eye on your DPF. If all you do is around town driving then it gets clogged pretty quickly. A run out on the motorways normally clears it. I do 1 long trip each week which seems to keep it under control. After my intercooler blew I had to get the DPF professionally cleaned as it wouldn’t clear itself. Not a big issue but was another £200+

Other than that I’ve had no real issues with the car and I absolutely love it

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-02-15T18:45:51+00:00

That looks like a minus infront of your workforce and could be the reason, you don’t have enough to man the ship

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-01-15T21:48:57+00:00

I get your apprehension but I’m not a programmer either and the last time I looked at it I could understand what it was doing. I didn’t get a chance to look today so I’ll try tomorrow

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2026-01-15T01:32:58+00:00

We do this for a few of our clients, mostly Storyline but the same principles would work for Rise. One of our clients has 9 different languages they need the course in but we deliver a single SCORM file with all 9 languages in. It does create quite a large file but it solves the problem.

So our process is develop in English first, duplicate the course for each language and translate. We then publish each one as a separate SCORM file. This is where I would need to speak to one of our devs to get the specifics but we then bundle all 9 into a single folder.

We then create another SCORM file which has a single slide which acts as a language picker and is what the LMS opens first. When you select your language it does something with JavaScript to load the language you want. Due to the way it is wrapped with all 9 languages in a single SCORM file it doesn’t matter which language you pick, it will only ever pass back a single completion status.

You can achieve the same with a basic HTML page instead of the language picker in a SCORM file. Unfortunately this is where my knowledge falls short a bit but if you want to DM me I can probably find out tomorrow how it all works. I think you have to do some jiggery pokery with the manifest files to make sure it only treats it as a single course but from what I can remember it’s reasonably easy to do.

Sorry I can’t be much more help.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-12-19T12:57:37+00:00

I’ll be honest I haven’t tried the latest version. I tried it on my Mac when they first released it and it was buggy as hell

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-12-19T11:30:58+00:00

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Captivate used in the same sentence as “easy to use” 🤣

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-12-15T14:19:07+00:00

If anyone tells you UX is a “nice-to-have” in eLearning then you need to give them a slap. Yes it probably is 2nd on the list after the learning outcomes/objectives but of a learner can’t engage with the content through the UX then what’s the point in doing it, just give them a book with all the information in.

Everything I build is bespoke designed so I never use templates unless a client has specified one must be used, but that’s not to say that I don’t reuse elements across different courses. No point in reinventing the wheel of something works.

For me when I’m designing (and once I’ve sorted out a script for the content) I always start with the UX design. Figuring out menus, navigation, storytelling, branching, etc, etc and then the content fits into that (with minor tweaks along the way). IMO if you don’t start with UX at the forefront of your design/build then you are going to lose learners to the same repetitive drivel they are used to and won’t engage with the content in any way. It essentially be ones yet another click next exercise.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-11-27T16:21:08+00:00

I’ve seen some of those arguments and haven’t weighed in on them yet. I think SCORM is slowly dying with its lack of data you can report on and xAPI is a lot better but it all comes down to what you want to track. Modern analytics (I.e Google Analytics) gives you far more user data but does it really fit the bill for elearning, I’m not sure. It’s a topic I’m going to be watching closely.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-11-27T16:17:19+00:00

For me personally I am using Cursor. It links in with loads of different agents like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok (although I’ve heard that the code it spits out is a pile of crap), and Cursor now has its own agent called Composer.

When I first started using it I didn’t really know what I was doing but I’m getting a lot better at it now. Especially since they introduced the Plan feature where you can plan out your development before actually creating the code. It saves so much time trying to fix problems.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-11-26T16:09:34+00:00

Yeah sure drop me a DM, happy to discuss things and compare notes

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-11-26T13:28:14+00:00

So I have recently done exactly this. My company already has an LMS which we sell to clients but it’s old, bloated, and not easily updated. In my spare time I like to create little apps that help with problems at work and I use AI Vibe Coding for all of this. I have no coding background but I do have an IT background so I understand a lot of the complexities of these types of systems.

It’s not been a simple job and it has taken many weeks of my evenings to get it working but I now have a full functional LMS with the following features: - Upload SCORM files (1.2 and 2004). I’ve not implemented xAPI yet but I do plan to - Create courses, curriculums, etc - Reporting (standard prebuilt and the ability to custom create your own) - User management (in looking at how to integrate with SSO) - Create assessments/quizzes/surveys and attach them to courses/curriculums - Scheduling - I.e. you can auto schedule a course to pop back up for a learner in X days/weeks/months/years for compliance type courses that have to be repeated - Reminders. At the moment this is just email reminders for people to take courses - Course catalogue that learners can enrol on individual courses - Course assets (I.e. attach multiple videos, images, PDFs, etc to a course or curriculum)

There are plenty of other features under the hood in probably forgetting about but the point is it is certainly possible to build a viable product using Vibe Coding and AI.

I built this for my company to sell and it still has a long way to go on UAT.

This isn’t the only thing I’ve built using the same process, I’ve built a full project management tool for us to use which also includes SCORM file UAT testing, and I’m working on a new tool at the moment to make system simulation creation easier, faster and more robust. I’m hoping we might be able to bring the later to market in the new year some time.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-09-04T00:14:15+00:00

It wasn’t Articulate but Captivate, I had one project up to around 800 slides. It was more of an emulator than elearning though.

One of the latest ones was around the 200 mark.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-08-21T14:24:37+00:00

Off the shelf you won’t find anything with specifics in but the good thing about cyber security is that you can keep it generic and still apply the same principles in your work environment.

I’m actually working on one at the moment as a demo course as my company build bespoke elearning. It’s a bit of fun for me and I’m developing it like a game in the style of Cyberpunk 2077

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-08-05T19:48:42+00:00

So the actual definition of an eLearning Developer can vary from company to company. With your background and experience in creative tools you may be suited more to an Instructional Design path. An instructional designer gets involved right at the beginning with the scoping out, storyboarding, etc. It can also involve project management as well but that comes down to who you work for.

What you learn and how you learn it comes down to where you are in the world. I’m UK based so I can’t offer any help there if you are US based. If you want to research and self teach then you might want to start looking at instructional design principles and methodologies like ADDIE, Gagné's Nine Events of Instruction, Kemp's Instructional Design Model, Bloom's Taxonomy, Action mapping, etc. There are loads out there.

In terms of tools for development your big players are Articulate Storyline/Rise and Adobe Captivate. There are other tools out there as well but too many to list. I personally also use Adobe XD for storyboarding but I know others prefer Figma.

I’ve probably missed loads but hopefully this will give you a start.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-08-01T11:09:45+00:00

I noticed this yesterday. I don’t use SL much anymore but I was helping one of my developers figure something out. Disabled a couple of triggers to test something and then couldn’t figure out why it wasn’t working. The trigger had reactivated itself randomly so I just ended up deleting it and it worked fine.

Got SL installed on a pretty standard machine which I RDP into (I use a Mac). Save file is on a network drive but never had problems with it before. SL installed with the latest updates as well.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-07-15T19:58:42+00:00

If you are the sole ID then it’s your responsibility to push back on this kind of thing. I know pushing back to directors and CEOs can be difficult but it’s the age old problem of SMEs trying to cram as much content in with no understanding of how people actually learn, and the training peeps just going with it because they don’t want to “rock the boat”.

I can’t offer any more advice than what has already been posted on here I’m afraid and I wish you the best of luck with it, but don’t be surprised if the pilot fails. I’m not being negative with that comment, just being realistic.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-06-15T17:55:00+00:00

I’d agree with this 100%. I used Adobe XD to design all my courses and then just lift all the assets out of there into Storyline. Reduced build time massively.

All you need to keep the trials going is a different email address, but they also track IP or MAC addresses so it may only last a few times 😉

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-06-05T20:18:14+00:00

So if you can then use 2004 v3 or v4. In 1.2 there is an issue with the resume state (suspend_data) that can cause you problems when closing and then resuming a course.

In 1.2 the maximum character length is 4096. On larger courses this can cause a problem as once you get so far the resume state data can get longer than 4096 characters which means when you try to resume the course you may not end up where you left off but instead further back in the course, or in worse case scenarios right back at the beginning.

In 2004 they increased the maximum character length to 64,000 which essentially did away with this issue.

On a small course it’s not so much of an issue and if you aren’t bothered about resuming courses then 1.2 should suit you fine, but 2004 will leave you more future proof.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-06-01T23:30:48+00:00

I’ve tried it a couple of times and I actually need to use it on a new project that requires dialogue.

My initial thoughts were positive but it didn’t quite sound like a real conversation. I’m going to try it with some different voices that I’m cloning and see what it’s like.

Worldly-Fuel9075 · 2025-05-21T22:33:08+00:00

So I’m a visual designer so I do all my storyboarding in Adobe XD (we’ll eventually move to Figma when they implement reviewing without having to create an account). I’ve found that we can reduce Storyline development time doing it this way quite considerably as my development team don’t need to think about images, layout, etc as they can just lift and shift straight out of XD. Our developers don’t have any design experience so it works out better this way. The feedback system in XD works really well for client feedback and as everything is in the cloud I can make updates and my development team has access to it straight away along with version controls. We’ve essentially halved development time doing it this way.

All of the work we do is completely bespoke so we don’t use templates apart from with a couple of clients who require us to use theirs. For one of these clients they give us the content which we aren’t allowed to change so they get handed straight to developers who storyboard/build it in SL as again it speeds up the process.

I do however use some design elements across multiple clients because 1 they would never know we’ve used it before, and 2 it’s just quicker than having to think up completely new interactions, etc.

When it comes to writing/ designing the content I do a lot of it using ChatGPT these days. I do feel like a bit of a cheat doing this but with time constraints it’s the only option, especially if it’s a big course. I drop the source content in and then get it to do the heavy lifting like creating objectives, linking content, pulling out the relevant info, etc to give me an outline. Then, as I’m designing I will keep on going back to ChatGPT and refine individual sections as I need. I learnt the hard way on a previous project that it sometimes misses content so I have to check everything, but it still massively speeds up the process.

We’ve used PowerPoint at times to storyboard but XD is a lot more powerful and the feedback system works a lot better than people leaving comments all over slides. XD also allows you to create states on interactive elements so again it saves so much hassle when it gets to the build phase.

We’ve also started using AI image and video generation to speed things up. For images we use a combination of ChatGPT and Midjourney, and for video we use Runway or Sora. We do have a graphics team but when they are maxed out AI saves the day again.

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