Mark62

They had included for a new dual mass flywheel at £600 as part of the over £2k cost. My local garage has quoted almost half that cost with a new flywheel inc vat

I’d tend to agree if my partner was the 2nd driver but she leased it from new. I do feel Skoda Maidstone are taking the easy option for themselves to avoid them claiming back cost from the parent company

Unfortunately my partner has already said go ahead to Skoda without consulting me.

Just worth a note that once I’d got the car home on Saturday night, I tested the clutch the old fashioned way, I held the electronic handbrake on, took the engine to 2500 revs and let the clutch up. The engine stalled straight away proving there’s plenty of bit and meat on the plates

My partner has leased a Skoda Karoq since early 2020 and has just purchased the car from the lease company via the BCA option. The car has only covered 8100 miles and it suddenly developed a fault on Saturday evening. Whilst my partner was driving her kids to an event, a noise became apparent within the engine compartment and white smoke appeared which eventually disappeared after 5 mins after shutting the car off. I managed to get to her as we were local to home an on a simple view / investigation, a strong smell of burnt rubber. All fluid levels were checked and were within the upper and lower limits. On restarting the engine, no more smoke was seen or became evident so I drove the car home ( around 3 miles) in which time, the engine temp stayed stable at 90 degrees and no other issues became apparent. We decided to let Skoda take a look as the car should have been covered by the 3 year warranty. Whilst talking on the phone to the service person, they stated it could be the water pump partially seizing or momentarily slipping which would explain a burning rubber smell with the belt causing friction on a seized or static pulley. However, it’s worrying as I believe the water pump is cambelt driven and surely this would have caused the belt teeth to wear or the camshaft and main bearing shaft pulleys to jump teeth and mash the inside of the engine up… I eventually drove the car to Skoda this morning and left it with them at 10.10. I also left them my number and asked them to call me once a prognosis was reached and any potential warranty issues which I would then discuss with my partner. At 10.45 Skoda ring my partner and tell her the clutch is faulty and needs replacement at a cost of nearly £2k. 😳😳 How on earth can they diagnose this with any certainty in 35 minutes? They then proceeded to tell her / insinuate, it’s down to her style of driving and misuse of the clutch and gears. I can personally vouch for her driving technique with is smooth and efficient, so gearbox and clutch misuse is out of the question. My concern and question is, should a clutch replacement or repair be covered under the 3 year warranty, bearing in mind the 8,000 miles covered since new and does the 3rd year come as standard or does it need to be purchased after or before the 2 year warranty expires ? Any help with warranty or knowledge about similar incidents etc would be greatly appreciated Mark