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Slackjawedyokel said:
Further to this. On test driving the car, Mrs SJY saw two obvious faults.
1) There was no umbrella in the umbrella slot (🙄)
2) The brake pedal was hella squeaky (and I mean HELLA squeaky).
She agreed to buy the car on the proviso that both were rectified.

On going to collect the car ~10 days later (having paid for it in full, cancelled her old insurance and set up the new insurance etc etc), the salesman said they’d sorted 1, but the engineers had been unable to ‘fully sort’ 2 (ie they put some WD40 on it but it didn’t work). They were ‘waiting’ for a solution from Skoda…
She should have just walked away there and then but…

Anyway… several arsey emails later and Mrs SJY basically dumped the car back with them to either sort or she’d have her money back, thanks. Lo and behold they have now managed to find a solution (brake servo (?)) BUT this means the car will take 2 to 3 weeks of workshop time (!!).
So it’s in now and Mrs has a little petrol Fabia to run around in.

God knows what that would cost outside of warranty- I can’t see anything on an ICE car taking THAT long- even changing a whole engine would surely only take a day or two?
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It's still not back yet.

They've apparently fixed the squeaky brake issue but they've rogered the air con in doing so. They don't know what they've done to it but it must be fairly catastrophic. It's off at a different garage to be diagnosed.

To say Mrs SJY is unhappy would be a little bit of an underestimate.
 
Slackjawedyokel said:
It's still not back yet.

They've apparently fixed the squeaky brake issue but they've rogered the air con in doing so. They don't know what they've done to it but it must be fairly catastrophic. It's off at a different garage to be diagnosed.

To say Mrs SJY is unhappy would be a little bit of an underestimate.
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Find the dealer principal, and bring the kitchen chopping block and suitable utensils....
 
Slackjawedyokel said:
It's still not back yet.

They've apparently fixed the squeaky brake issue but they've rogered the air con in doing so. They don't know what they've done to it but it must be fairly catastrophic. It's off at a different garage to be diagnosed.

To say Mrs SJY is unhappy would be a little bit of an underestimate.
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Penny’s been given the runaround a bit by the garage this week (‘oh we haven’t got an update… oh the person dealing with that ‘an off sick this week’ etc). She’s on a course in the middle of Newcastle today so first thing she dropped the spare keys and the V5 off at the garage along with a note saying she would expect to see the manager at 4.30 this afternoon and she’s expecting that either her car is fixed or she’d like her money back under the consumer protection act.
😬
 
Slackjawedyokel said:
Penny’s been given the runaround a bit by the garage this week (‘oh we haven’t got an update… oh the person dealing with that ‘an off sick this week’ etc). She’s on a course in the middle of Newcastle today so first thing she dropped the spare keys and the V5 off at the garage along with a note saying she would expect to see the manager at 4.30 this afternoon and she’s expecting that either her car is fixed or she’d like her money back under the consumer protection act.
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My wife is far too tolerant🙄(although maybe that’s not always a bad thing 🤔)

She’s given them one more week to get it sorted.
Apparently the air con uses some new, higher pressurised system rather than the ‘normal’ type of system so only one garage in the group has the equipment to work on it. They’ve had to remove an aircon manifold to get at the faulty brake components but on re-fitting the aircon leaked. They took it apart again, put new seals all round, re-assembled and it still leaks but they don’t know why.

I thought they’d use fluorescent dye to trace where a leak was coming from?

Personally I think she should be running a mile from this car. Imagine THAT out of warranty!! (Or if it happens again)
 
Slackjawedyokel said:
My wife is far too tolerant🙄(although maybe that’s not always a bad thing 🤔)

She’s given them one more week to get it sorted.
Apparently the air con uses some new, higher pressurised system rather than the ‘normal’ type of system so only one garage in the group has the equipment to work on it. They’ve had to remove an aircon manifold to get at the faulty brake components but on re-fitting the aircon leaked. They took it apart again, put new seals all round, re-assembled and it still leaks but they don’t know why.

I thought they’d use fluorescent dye to trace where a leak was coming from?

Personally I think she should be running a mile from this car. Imagine THAT out of warranty!! (Or if it happens again)
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Get a refund and buy a Suzuki Jimny, I can potentially swing round to Harrop (Think there in Melbourne) to pick up the supercharger kit required. 😉
 
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