Was giving the car a clean and noticed this! 

Its been fully serviced by skoda, 2013 reg.

 

it looks like it is rusting. Will this be covered by skoda corrosion warranty? Anyone else had this?

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Have you had it from new, and are you just seeing this now?

It will get tested to see if the original paint or if there has been a repair there before. 

 

When it has been Fully Serviced by a Skoda Main Dealership have they each time done the body inspection and report.

 

When you let the Official Repairers / Dealership see it and then get it arranged for a Warranty Manager to have it photographed and inspected be sure to ask does your cars Seevice History show Body Inspections.

 

If Skoda UK say there is no record of them, tell them to check where and by who it was serviced and they can contact them and see why it was not inspected when it should have been.

I would recon due to the location on the lip of the wheel arch they will just say fair wear and tear from stone chips and that sort of thing particularly as it's 6 years old. I had rust blisters along the lower portions of my old Yeti's doors at less than 3 years old sub 30k miles with all perforation checks carried out and that's what I got told by dealer and skoda uk. Fair wear and tear. 

That looks scuffed. There is paint missing between the rust spots. So I’d say, no. 

Thanks all. No not had it from new but service history is all from skoda uk.

 

i guess they would say fair wear and tear given the location. Thanks anyway. 

Re Yeti.

The Zinc Inclusion issue was well known, well known by Skoda and a dealership employee might well say Fair Wear & Tear, but that is not them that decide there is a procedure forvwarranty claims and when followed the tests clearly showed when it was Zinc Inclusion or just stone damage, few were actually stone damage.

Plenty cars got new panels / doors.

I traded mine In so I never had they joy of battling with AC or Skoda UK about it. Maybe the next person did. Roottoot. 

Corrosion comes from inside the metal to the outside.

 

Looking at that photo, you can clearly see the damage is only on the side of the wheel arch, if it were corrosion it would also include where the metal folds over - i.e. the 3mm or so worth of metal directly facing the tire. The piece of metal facing the tire looks perfect, the paint is fully intact.

 

In this case the damage has occurred from outside - in rather than inside - out therefore not a warranty claim. 

 

the damage looks very light therefore depending on your excess, it's probably worth paying a bodyshop to repair it, the sooner the better before it gets worse. 

Edited 24 September, 20196 yr by Golfmk56

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