a/c condensor 'holed' on a 4 week old 1300 mile car

[c7xlg]

Our new Leon FR TSi has had the a/c fail on it all ready. The condensor has (apparently) been holed by a stone or something hitting it. The garage has fixed the car and returned to us, with the old condensor. I had to pay for the fix as due to damage rather than failed component.

The thing that is worrying me is that the condensor shows quite a few 'dings' in it already, as well as the one bigger impact which I guess is the one that caused the leak. The car is only 4 weeks old and done 1300 miles but the condensor looked more like the radiator in my caterham that is 5 years old with 20,000 miles on it.

I can't remember the car being hit by a load of gravel at once, so I'm now worried that the car has a poor design which makes the a/c condensor (big radiator thing) very prone to damage.

[Braintax]

I think I'd be writing a nice letter to Mr Seat regarding this, take some good pictures and explain all. You could be helping them out in the long run as-well as yourself

[rallycross]

Probably just bad luck, hit a big enough stone at 70 mph its going to do some damage, short of putting some protective mesh inbetween the condensor and the exposed bit not much you do.

[HellDiver]

c7xlg said:

the car has a poor design

Sums it up, really. Get used to getting stupid things fixed due to damage. It's almost like Spain doesn't have roads with dirt on them or something.