Shortest life of car?
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Ok I've just about recovered from my rage earlier today. My new Smart For2 (picked up from dealer on Monday - new factory order) failed to start this morning. The Smart garage then asked me to bring it in for a check cue first level of rage. Then they phoned back to ask if I had re-charged it?! They thought it might be electric, cue rise in rage. AA come round after 30min plugs in his laptop and confirms that it is indeed fked.
I then have to get an enterprise rental as it doesn't qualify for a loan care from the dealer. Then I get phoned to tell me it needs a new ECU and software. Did I buy a fking laptop?
So 200 miles and 3 days is all my new car lasted, can anyone beat that?
I then have to get an enterprise rental as it doesn't qualify for a loan care from the dealer. Then I get phoned to tell me it needs a new ECU and software. Did I buy a fking laptop?
So 200 miles and 3 days is all my new car lasted, can anyone beat that?
Edited by PKLD on Thursday 1st December 19:30
PKLD said:
Ok I've just about recovered from my rage earlier today. My new (picked up from dealer on Monday - new factory order) failed to start this morning. The Smart garage then asked me to bring it in for a check cue first level of rage. Then they phoned back to ask if I had re-charged it?! They thought it might be electric, cue rise in rage. AA come round after 30min plugs in his laptop and confirms that it is indeed fked.
I then have to get an enterprise rental as it doesn't qualify for a loan care from the dealer. Then I get phoned to tell me it needs a new ECU and software. Did I buy a fking laptop?
So 200 miles and 3 days is all my new car lasted, can anyone beat that?
Quoted, just in case...Well we all know..I then have to get an enterprise rental as it doesn't qualify for a loan care from the dealer. Then I get phoned to tell me it needs a new ECU and software. Did I buy a fking laptop?
So 200 miles and 3 days is all my new car lasted, can anyone beat that?
OP, keep us informed please I am very interested in this.
I bought a new 206 in 2000- drove it from Brentwood to Guilford the afternoon I picked it up, kept surging but I put it down getting used to the car. Took my mate out for a spin and it revved it's bottom off and it came back to the garage the next day on a low-loader so about two hours from 0 to about 60ish miles and it was busted!
Think it turned out to be the fuel pump but it really was a shoddily put together bit of kit in contrast my 106 had managed 20k in 9 months(!) without issue. Kept it for six months before being unable to take the poor build quality any more!
Think it turned out to be the fuel pump but it really was a shoddily put together bit of kit in contrast my 106 had managed 20k in 9 months(!) without issue. Kept it for six months before being unable to take the poor build quality any more!
PKLD said:
after those posts I feel positively lucky :P
Just a shock after my 318d (2009) did 74k miles in 2 years with only tyres, diesel and oil being changed.
Colleague has a 320ed (?) Company Car. 2011Just a shock after my 318d (2009) did 74k miles in 2 years with only tyres, diesel and oil being changed.
Now reckons to have had 15K worth of warranty work done.
Steering rack. (Apparently this is a nightmare to do)
Gearbox x 2
Clutch
Steering wheel
Seat belt(s?) Poor material
Head Unit, very poor reception
Not good
750turbo said:
Colleague has a 320ed (?) Company Car. 2011
Now reckons to have had 15K worth of warranty work done.
Steering rack. (Apparently this is a nightmare to do)
Gearbox x 2
Clutch
Steering wheel
Seat belt(s?) Poor material
Head Unit, very poor reception
Not good
I suspect you are talking ste.Now reckons to have had 15K worth of warranty work done.
Steering rack. (Apparently this is a nightmare to do)
Gearbox x 2
Clutch
Steering wheel
Seat belt(s?) Poor material
Head Unit, very poor reception
Not good
Waugh-terfall said:
My mate bought a MINI Cooper, 10 days and almost 300mi later he put us into a crash barrier at 55mph and wrote it off. Admittedly the poor little thing had already lived 5.5yrs/54,000mi...
I am not sure what makes you think, at 5.5 years old, your mates Mini is in with a shout for this thread. 1976 Exeter. My dad had just picked up a Suntor Marina camper van from the builders in Torrington. He was at a friends house for the night before driving it home to Newcastle. There is a knock on the door and an apologetic Ambulance man is there to tell him he'd just rolled the ambulance into the new car's side.
MD of my dad's firm gets a call from the dealer to tell him there would be a delay in the delivery of his new Daimler Double Six. They were building him a new one after the one he ordered got written off falling from the transporter. It was on the top deck, at the front. The transporter braked heavily and it was then that it was discovered it hadn't been lashed down. Apparently it flew over the cab and landed on its roof. Not even delivery miles.
MD of my dad's firm gets a call from the dealer to tell him there would be a delay in the delivery of his new Daimler Double Six. They were building him a new one after the one he ordered got written off falling from the transporter. It was on the top deck, at the front. The transporter braked heavily and it was then that it was discovered it hadn't been lashed down. Apparently it flew over the cab and landed on its roof. Not even delivery miles.
Brand new car with a Saab badge - 60 miles - airconditioning pump seized and caused the main serpentine drive belt to jump off its pulleys, lighting up every warning lamp on the dashboard. Dead car. Car taken back to the dealer on a trailer and all was well once a new A/C pump and belt had been fitted.
wildcat45 said:
MD of my dad's firm gets a call from the dealer to tell him there would be a delay in the delivery of his new Daimler Double Six. They were building him a new one after the one he ordered got written off falling from the transporter. It was on the top deck, at the front. The transporter braked heavily and it was then that it was discovered it hadn't been lashed down. Apparently it flew over the cab and landed on its roof. Not even delivery miles.
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