Worth making a complaint or not?

[stu666]

Happy friday Folks,

I have a 2006 Leon which I purchased 2nd hand from a Seat franchised dealership in April this year.

Within the last month my reverse light stopped working due to a broken wire somewhere in the bottom part of the engine bay, so technically the car became non road legal.

This cost £98 for the dealer to fix this today as it was not covered by the scotsure warranty they given me with the car.

Is this worth complaining about this to the aftersales department at the garage. My thinking is that if I've bought an approved used vehicle then it should be at least gauranteed to be road legal for at least at year (with the exception of consumables like tyres etc).

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Cheers

Stuart

 

[DPJ]

Non-working reversing lights do not render your vehicle non-road legal.

 

[Bedlam]

I am guessing it is out of 3 year Seat Warranty or is it?

 

[dazjb69]

Happy friday Folks,

I have a 2006 Leon which I purchased 2nd hand from a Seat franchised dealership in April this year.

Within the last month my reverse light stopped working due to a broken wire somewhere in the bottom part of the engine bay, so technically the car became non road legal.

This cost £98 for the dealer to fix this today as it was not covered by the scotsure warranty they given me with the car.

Is this worth complaining about this to the aftersales department at the garage. My thinking is that if I've bought an approved used vehicle then it should be at least gauranteed to be road legal for at least at year (with the exception of consumables like tyres etc).

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

Cheers

Stuart

Unfortunately complaining and numerous phone calls to my dealer on problems with my car (that I only picked up 5 weeks ago) don't seem to make much difference to Seat franchised dealers!!

 

[stu666]

I am guessing it is out of 3 year Seat Warranty or is it?

Yip it's out of manufactuers warranty. It came with a scottsure warranty for a year that only seems to cover very specific components.

 

[stu666]

Non-working reversing lights do not render your vehicle non-road legal.

Cheers - Still learning new things everyday.

 

[Fl@pper]

Yip it's out of manufactuers warranty. It came with a scottsure warranty for a year that only seems to cover very specific components.

pretty much like a lot of them seem to be like nowadays sadly