Badassfabia

hello everyone, thanks for your posts. They phoned last week and said they'd decided to sent it off to be refurbed by a specialist company. It is now done and im 1,440 quid lighter including labour too. 1,100 pounds less than expected so am pleased about that. They're dropping it off today. When they drove it away weeks ago it stopped on them and they said that was scary. They should have been on my journey on the way home one evening in London, now that was hairy! Apparently it comes with a lifetime guarantee. Shame the other parts are likely to go in the next couple of years given its age. Not too sure whether to keep now or sell. This was the first time it had ever let me down.

Do it

ive just had a conversation with the garage. it os a mechatronics issue and they have told me the piece will be 1.5k plus vat. plus their work adds another 500 pounds. ill have to suck this one up and pay. 2.5k and the car is worth about 3.5 he said if I went with we buy any car. with the amount of mileage 117,000 more things may begin to go wrong. would you say yes? ive just said go ahead and order th part which will take about a week to come. They're busy so no cars still for 10 more days.

I’ll put that to the garage when it goes in at the end of March. When I’ve had to turn it off and restart it, it’s reversing !!

I’ll find out when it goes in to the local garage on 30th March

Everything is checked and so pollen filters, brake fluid, new brakes in 2018, oil change can’t remember when without ploughing through paperwork. I worked abroad during the pandemic and so only have done 10k miles since 2019. In 2018 in the really hot weather after a service at Marshall’s Oxford the pump went a week later. Almost as if they’d done it. They fleeced me for another 600 quid or tried to. In the end as I needed the car badly I just paid it but never went back there. This is where i scrutinised my paperwork and discovered that the original engine replacement was just a reconditioned one because the engine number was the same. since that incident I’ve had it with ŠKODA dealers and taken my car to be serviced at ŠKODA approved garages. They’re more trustworthy in my experience. This problem that I have now I do fear that the dsg gearbox may need replacing. 1500£ before Labour it’s got 112000mes on the clock and now I only do about 4000 annually since covid. I love my ŠKODA and hope that it doesn’t become a money pit.

My car has been a beautiful runner for 10 years. At Christmas I started to have problems with the electric windows. if they went down I couldn't get them back up. Took it for mot and full service they came back still not working properly. in fact ive only been able to get them down twice in 3 months!. two weeks ago I started to get a rattle under the bonnet as if the pump was going and this increased when I pressed the brake pedal. Then, 2 weeks ago, the gear indicator began to flash as it changed gear instead of remaining static. Yesterday, on a school run my car conked out completely as I was on a hill. I had to turn it off leave it for 30 seconds then restart it. its almost as if lost power. I called the RAC out at work. when we took it for a test drive it stopped on me. Man took over and it didn't for him and he looked at me in a weird manner. Then his boss told him to take the car out without me. I questioned this but he was having none of it. He came back and said he had to advise me that I was to take it to the nearest garage to be seen. Dont drive on motorways and keep the distance short. He said that it was drivable so he was not going to put the car on his truck. I live 10 miles from work. I asked him what the matter was and all he said was there were a few transmission faults!! No skoda garage can fit me in before MAY and my local cannot fit me in until April so im stuck. This isn't what I signed up with the RAC for. When they ask you if I still need repairs, fill in the form I haven't a clue what to put. What is it electrical, the dreaded gearbox, Everything? I had to drive home last night and it was honestly the most stressful time ever. Rush hour traffic, conking out. Help needed on what to do now without a car.