GiantKiwi

Spent £450 at a local garage to have the brakes and pads done with OEM parts - after the local skoda dealer quoted me £1400 for the same job. Additionally spent another £350 on new tires all round, which Skoda quoted me £1000 for, as they wouldn't put anything but Michelin or Pirelli on the car. This morning they rang me to tell my warranty claim for the SOS speaker fault was declined, so i will just make do, as i'm not spending £130 on a 20 pence speaker to be replaced.

Looks like country spec variance striking again - my UK 2018 Sportline has them as well as standard in all doors.

Only 18 cars currently support CarKey - And only for high end BMW, Kia, Genesis and Tesla vehicles.

Toyota Corolla 2L in GR Sport spec (the hybrid thing, not the Gazoo Racing hatch with the GR Yaris engine unfortunately) - MY22 gets some QoL updates, and whilst its down on power over the VRS by a bit, i'll get electric for city driving and 50mpg for the rest (had one for a 2 week loan to test my normal routine and averaged 52.8mpg on the kind of driving i'm getting no more than 33 on for the VRS). Oh and it's everything works, I didn't have to switch anything off everytime I started the car up (looking at you lane assist).

It's a hardware update, complete new head unit 🙄 - my dealer has given a minimum 12 week lead time on it. My car is going back for its new steering wheel next Wednesday , but that was given a 2 week lead time 2 months ago, I call the 12 weeks for a HU as bull****. Either way won't be my problem, as my new car just entered build, thank god for UK factories.

That's the module that monitors the effectiveness of your PHEV battery, it's something you should be chasing them up on as the fault is related to a short circuit causing fires.

Somewhere between unlikely and not a chance in hell unfortunately.

2 examples I can give you for parts on these cars - I had a pigeon kill a matrix led headlight quite early on, that took them 3 weeks to produce a part, with them reusing the control units from the original light. 2 months ago, my car spent a week in the workshop to look at a book of faults, they determined the fix for a few of them was to replace the steering wheel entirely, i was quoted 7 working days for a replacement to arrive, i'm now up and above 40 working days as of today, still no replacement steering wheel. If they have halted your car for any reason, its not getting dealt with any time soon.

Sounds about right - i've lost 1mm of tread depth in 19k km on F1 A5's.

Sorry to say this - it'll be gaslighting, they claim fixes on an almost bimonthly basis now, never seen any.

They had mine for over a week to try and fix a raft of issues last month, and since then all of them (and some new ones) have popped up again.

Might be worth seeing if your dealer want to buy the car back off you first, mine have now offered me more than I paid for the bloody thing - but I can't accept as i only have one car and my replacement is queued to be built at the end of next month so i'm holding out at the moment.

Dealer had my car for a week and couldn't replicate it - I had the car back for 12 hours and had it happen again, even after the most recent software updates.

You enter into a contract which in the EU (or anywhere that has up until recently been bound by EU laws) means that changes require consent of both parties otherwise it is null and void.

Realistically, only if they cancel your order.

That would explain why my dealer, despite all of its issues, offered to buy mine off me outright 3 hours ago.

I've had to make the dealer aware that i've got a car on order that is contingent of the latent value of this Octavia for trade in, so if the delays affect my replacement i'll be taking proactive measures.

My dealer has effectively now confirmed in an additional phone call that the latest software update for my car requires a complete new head unit. I could be out of the car for a while as they're on backorder for ages.

According to my dealer, there is now a recall out on the head unit on the hatchback VRS & iV Octavia's + Enyaq + Golf GTI (very oddly specific). I was giving the car to them anyway today but it was supposed to be only a 2 day process, now the process is open ended so for the forseeable future i'm in a floating sponge called a Tiguan.

Land Cruiser is also a VERY niche car.

No. Companies who had no foresight to plan a little more than JIT are having issues, those with foresight are not. I had a wizz round all the main japanese brands, and their order to delivery times are still at roughly pre-pandemic turnarounds.

That's another VAG car brand though. Meanwhile the turn around on Toyota's is less than 4 months, and they can pin point the entire process down to the day.

Dealer won't touch it with a bargepole. Critical element is he, the user, installed it. Not a dealer or other authorised 3rd party. These lights all need to be coded to the specific car, if not they do weird things.

You book it yourself and they perform an inspection on the car wherever it is currently situated.

Warped discs after 9000 miles - maybe if you had been yeeting it around a racetrack repeatedly - in normal driving thats a manufacturing fault. If they give you issues regarding it, just book a DEKRA engineer inspection (around £150) and that'll soon put a rocket up the dealers backside.