Warrenty Claims - What have you had?

[GeorgeL]

I've got a few bits on my motor that I want the main dealer to address under warrenty. I am very interested to hear what items you guys have managed to get replaced or fixed under warrenty. I am also interested to hear what bits you have had refused. I have the following issues:

1) Drivers wing mirror base plate cracked from folding in mirror

2) Gear knob silver has worn off

3) Alloy wheel centre caps pitted.

Please update the list with any items you may have tried.

Also what do you think my chances are?

Cheers

George

[andyjl1968]

New Turbo and 3 new alloys......

[vRS Bob]

Two new tyres after 10,000 miles!

[Stoofa]

New AC Compressor @ approx. 17k Miles

[GeorgeL]

New tyres!? Have a word lol.

Can I ask what happend to the turbo and how they diagnosed it?

[Nick P]

Footwell mat pegs

DMF

Grille badge (silver coming off)

Windscreen (delaminating)

Tweeter (distorting)

[GeorgeL]

Footwell mat pegs

DMF

Grille badge (silver coming off)

Windscreen (delaminating)

Tweeter (distorting)

DMF?

On that note, one of my rear speakers farts!

[Nick P]

Dual Mass Flywheel

[andyjl1968]

New tyres!? Have a word lol.

Can I ask what happend to the turbo and how they diagnosed it?

At first I thought it was a belt slipping as I got a squealing noise on acceleration ( more apparent when the engine was cold ). Over time it got worse and noticed it seem to be when the turbo was "on boost" and, in additon,was getting instaneous power drops. Took it in to the local dealer and had a chat with their guys who subsequently diagnosed the turbo. Had my suspicions anyway having googled the problem and had a look on here too. Glad it was under warranty as the bill was around £1700.

Alloys were a classic case of de-lamination.

All replaced with no quibble.

[No Waiting]

Six new alloy wheels on the Scout, new aerial on the previous 4x4

[Raglits]

Six new alloy wheels on the Scout, new aerial on the previous 4x4

I've not seen a 6-wheeld Scout before, got any pictures

[andyjl1968]

Six new alloy wheels on the Scout, new aerial on the previous 4x4

Six ? Are you driving a new version of the Scout designed for Lady Penelope ?

[No Waiting]

Had two replaced early in its life and then all four at around 21,000 miles as both the originals and replacements had started to delaminate...

[sworrall]

52 plate Octavia i - ambient

blown speaker replaced.

aircon water leaking into passenger footwell - fixed a pipe fault somewhere.

hazard lights button replaced - (known fault)

55 plate Octavia ii - L&K

replaced rear windscreen due to break on heating filament

replaced pitted centre caps on alloys.

broken parcel shelf retractor replaced.

replaced centre compartment on dash after chrome delaminated

front wheel bearing replaced

Wouldnt replace wheel nut caps which had gone white (think this was from the previous owner being skoda as it was a demo, maybe woder wheels used?)

wouldnt do anything about the tyres which had worn on the inside after 8000 miles from the sports suspension alignment problem. bought new tyres myself and had it four wheel aligned to the correct settings in the wheel place. Skoda wanted £200 to align the wheels :(

58 plate octavia ii - VRS

faulty exhaust pressure sensor replaced

im sure there are more so will update if i can remember them!

Edited 16 July, 2010 by sworrall

[Mr Mul]

Front shocker other week (replaced both not just one)

Will have to try get my badges done.. wheels and front/rear too

Got a farting speaker i keep forgetting about too

[PSM]

On my preFL VRS I had the following on warranty:

Gear knob due to the silver wearing off

New exhaust sensor

[rich17865]

my 07 L&K warranty claims (just in my years ownership)

4 wheel centre caps - chrome delaminating

1 bonnet emblem badge - chrome delaminating

2 boot lid emblem badges - chrome delaminating

rear windscreen - delaminating

1 wheel - lacquer delaminating

rear wheel alignment - premature tyre wear - sawtoothing on inside edge

2 tyres - as above

[GoneToBeemer]

Two new DRL's (both sides) due to colour temperature problems

[Forester]

Front Wheel Bearing about 20k

Rear Wheel Bearing about 35k

Internal pull handle drivers door about 15k

front wishbone bushes (both) 59.5k (phew!)

Rear wiper incontinence fix twice, second time at a garage which actually knew how to fix it.

2007 2.0 4x4

[m0bov]

5 visits to two dealers to sort out alarm going off from day one, had interior sensor replaced and the sensitivity turned down from 100 to 50 now.

[antrich1968]

Distorting speaker replaced

Even though I was at the dealer collecting my car, from them having fixed damage that I found when initially collected the car when new, or was it another ****-up they managed to achieve at the time! I still had to book the car in for them to investigate, and say yes your right Sir it is knackered and needs replacing! Was also told it would be fixed the same day that I took it in to be looked at (yea like I really believed that would happen!). (Trip 1) Drop car off, 2 hours later a phone call to tell me my car is ready, and informed a new speaker has been ordered. I ended up chasing to find out when replacement speaker was due in, "oh it is here sir when would you like to book it in to be fitted" Grrr.......

(Trip 2) Dropped car of at 8am, "we will call you when it is ready for collection", I return at 17:45 not having been called, to find out they had forgotten to do it........ additional trips to and from the dealer probably equalled about 100 miles. I hope nothing else fails under warranty!!!

Edited 16 July, 2010 by antrich1968

[m0bov]

Name and shame, i hope you wrote stinky letter for free service?

[jcdub]

Front and rear skoda badges replaced, DMF and exhaust pressure sensors (G450)

[GeorgeL]

Cheers for the replies guys! This thread is really helpful. I'm definitely going to approach the dealer about my gear knob, speaker, mirror and running issues!

[GriffoVRS]

'07 PD vRS:

Exhaust Sensor - recall

Front Speaker - was 'buzzing' loose rivet replaced

Wheel Centre Caps - delaminating

Rear Windsreen - delaminating at edge

'09 CR FL vRS:

Alarm Sensitivity - reduced

Rear Wheel Alignment (sawtoothing tyre edges) - adjusted.

All addressed by the dealer (Simpsons of Preston) with no quibbling (that's a weird word when you write it down!).