02 Curpa Gearbox Failure

[paullab]

A couple of weeks ago, while at a very busy roundabout, my gearbox decided to packup - well not totally, but gears one and two disappeared on me !

Anyway, to cut a long story short, the problem turned out to be a broken gear selector fork which resulted in my gearbox being taken apart, the broken part replaced and the unit reconditioned. This was not cheap.

My Leon has only done 37,000 miles. Not happy at all !!!!

I had it fixed at a non-SEAT dealer as I'd recently been fleeced by my local SEAT dealer for a 4 year service and didnt fancy a repeat performance.

I'm thinking of writing to SEAT as a gearbox should last a lot longer than this.
Has anyone else had any similar issues ?
Can anyone offer advise as to how I should approach this with SEAT ?

Any (constuctive!) comments welcome,

Cheers,

Paul

 

[CUPR]

how much did it cost you then?

should seat do a good will geasture paying 50% for example
as its only 4 years old with under 40k?

 

[paullab]

Thats what I'm hoping might be the conclusion

Has anyone on here had any goodwill from Seat !?

 

[morebeer]

I had a gearbox replaced in my old 03 LCR in June 05 at roughly the same mileage; this was obviously completed under warranty. However in March this year the clutch packed up at about 45k, 2 months before the warranty was due to expire. As I understand it, clutches are normally not replaced under warranty, however it was rectified after discussions between myself, Seat and the local dealers taking into account the problems I had had with the car and as a goodwill gesture. This was even more surprising as the dealers in question were aware that the vehicle was about to be traded in on a new non-Seat car.