As Denis urged me to translate Jon's posts into Dutch to get my post number up, I thought I'd do something a bit more useful and translate some Dutch into English - for your enjoyment, of course.

So here are some excerpts taken from the Dutch AutoWeek site's MyReview section, which gives car owners the opportunity to brag about or slag off their respective motors.

Reading the Seat customer reviews I noticed that the slagging off was winning over the bragging by a fair amount. Now how can this be? These cars use the same parts as ours, yet Skoda is praised as utterly reliable (coilpacks apart) while Seats are troubled by niggles as big as Madrid.

Is this worrying or is it merely a sign of ma

Yes I do think Seat's have got big quality problems, from my experience and from other owners....

So far I've had only 2 problems , Stereo turning itself down and a washer jet thats not aligned correctly...

The reliability polls seem to agree, with Skoda out performing all the VAG partners....

Cheers

Dazz

That's pretty bad! Where are Seats actually built? Is it in Spain?

DaveU Wrote

Where are Seats actually built? Is it in Spain?

Si , Senor

[manuel]

ah - i know nuuuuthing - i from Barcelona

[/manuel]

There were posts like that on Cupranet the last time i looked , it seems the headlights , aircon and leaks problems are especially common.

I think the early Cupra's were built in a vw plant in Belgium and had good build quality, but scince moving manufacturing to spain build quality from the spanish plant is of a lower standard.

Manny

Yes they were , the same plant which builds the Golf , i beleive , its only the newer cars that seem to have problems.

My mum's Leon Cupra is one of the early ones (didn't even come with any badges calling it a Cupra) and has been almost completely faultless. Given manny's comment it would interesting to hear the excuses from Spain as to the sudden change in reliability

As always - there's no point in putting a canine bits engine in a car that's unreliable. I'm trying to come up with a good metaphor right now, but I can't think of one. Perhaps the same as Skoda putting a 1.8T engine in the Octavia? hee hee

*pegs it away rapidly*