Bought this car from a main Skoda dealer in Glasgow  had the car maintained and serviced by them , the car was bought as a Private Hire Taxi and after 4 years and 100,000 miles the alternator has packed in.

This happened when I was on the road driving and luckily happened at approx 30/40’mph but still struggled to get the car under control as power steering packed in and brakes went soft I’m reasonably fit so coped but if this were someone elderly or infirm this could have been catastrophic as it was I tried to turn but was heading for a lamppost anyway still here got on to skoda and was told usual ,age of car it’s only 4 years old and high mileage,100,000 miles, the car was bought as a taxi was told the real air cost would be almost £600.

Surely Thea components on a car should last longer considering there are 15/20 year old cars on the road Also when I called Skoda /Volkswagen customers service was told by one guy that when you buy a car then after 3 years there is no comeback on any part of the car I argued the point with him and tried to explain a part of consumer law called Fair Usage which means the 3 years warranty is not set in stone, I eventually gave up and called someone else at customer service so we will see what happens now watch this space

I think you're on a hiding to nothing with that one.  Alternators do a lot of spinning and 100k miles isn't necessarily that bad.  I've had one go at 60k miles (Honda) and one still going strong when I scrapped a Nissan Bluebird with 340k on the clock.  Them's the dice.

 

Gaz

First question i would ask about a taxi doing 100,000 miles in 4 years was what Servicing and maintenance gets done and when was the belts inspected last.

Replacement Alternators are available because they can fail.

 

Who Services it Henrys?

& Has it had the Heldex Oil changed 2 or 3 times yet?

Edited 14 October, 20196 yr by Roottootemoot

Hi Roottootemoot

thanks for your feedback

 

in answer to your question the answer is Henry’s (Skoda ) of Glasgow Serviced my car at every service interval that was require i.e Oil Servicing and all other main Services as and when they were required and Henry’s would send over a video report with each service and never mentioned that I needed any belts etc changed so I assume everything was ok in that dept and considering that I purchased the car from them and this was my source of income I had them do all maintenance on my car but to be honest, on that car I have had the Stop /Start Battery replaced under warranty, the Heater Unit has been replaced, Wheel bearing going and now a replacement Alternator.

When I see Octavia Taxi’s on 14 plates and onwards driving about Glasgow I wonder has my car been a rotten apple or have the owners of these cars had the same problems that I’ve experienced, also there seems to be a constant problem with the Volkswagen Stop/Start system am I right.

VW don’t make the alternators, will be the same few manufacturers who make them for everyone. No problems with my 14 Octavia vRS with 117k miles on it. I am not aware of a general problem with VW’s start/stop system.