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G201 pressure sensor NOT being done free... apparently
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Please help
Hi all,
Help and tips needed!
I am having the same challenge which it looks like lots of Seat owner have had. The dreaded G201 01435. My car is 2006 with 77k on the clock.
Absolutely no help from Seat with really rude women handing my case. She says that as the car is out of the 3-year warranty, they don't offer any goodwill. I told them about it being a design fault and that there are plenty of Seat owners on forums having them fixed FOC with even higher mileage. It was at an independent for its MOT but they wouldn't look at my case until an official seat dealer diagnosed it at a stinging £95. That was 2 days ago, it's still there and im carless
Can anyone help me get this done FOC? Any tips or even a legal reference around it being a design fault?
Thanks in advance
Hi all,
Help and tips needed!
I am having the same challenge which it looks like lots of Seat owner have had. The dreaded G201 01435. My car is 2006 with 77k on the clock.
Absolutely no help from Seat with really rude women handing my case. She says that as the car is out of the 3-year warranty, they don't offer any goodwill. I told them about it being a design fault and that there are plenty of Seat owners on forums having them fixed FOC with even higher mileage. It was at an independent for its MOT but they wouldn't look at my case until an official seat dealer diagnosed it at a stinging £95. That was 2 days ago, it's still there and im carless
Can anyone help me get this done FOC? Any tips or even a legal reference around it being a design fault?
Thanks in advance
Sadly I would say give up and find a good Seat/VAG specialist who will know about the issue, and that the part is about £250+labour+VAT, which will be half what Seat will want.
I have posted here before about my two experiences, but not sure if I updated the last.
The first was my nearly new 07 Cupra that saw the fault about 65k in 2011/12. After alot of arguing with the dealer (different from where I had bought it as that one had gone bust!) I raised it with Seat UK who were quite helpful and I can't recall what I paid but I think it was £200 at most. I believe there was a tech bulletin floating around dealers that had the information about it all, same as for the soggy under-bonnet sound-proofing which they denied was an issue too (which I also got done FOC).
For various reasons I sold it soon after that and recently got a 57 FR that had only been about 6k a year, and last year got to over 60k and guess what, same again. Tried a polite enquiry to Seat UK, they said to get dealer diags (I had already had 3rd party diags FOC!) to send to them. Dealer wanted £90, I asked for a quote for what I believed the issue was BEFORE they did the diag on the basis that if it was that then they would knock the £90 off if I paid - if I couldn't get goodwill from Seat UK for some/all. They quoted "about £400".
The dealer did the diagnostic, said it was "an ABS valve issue" but couldn't confirm exactly what as the mechanic was not in by the time I collected it... I called Seat UK, they got the information from the dealer and said it wasnt a known issue and didn't want anything to do with it. The "entertaining" bit was when I asked for a copy of the diagnostic report. They refused and told me to go back to the dealer. The dealer said they only have paper copies and had thrown it away. After a "discussion" with the service manager he amazingly asked for £90 to give me the report (not realising that I had not actually been charged for the first as it was pending the response from Seat UK). I said I had already paid for one and not had it, he said he couldnt just allocate time and not have it paid for... Seat UK incidentally denied there ever was a fault/issue and couldn't find any record of me talking to them about my first car!
So I asked for a proper quote to be emailed to me (to try and prove it was the part that has a known fault!), which was a screenshot of their billing system and the line "ABS valve replacement" and now at £800, but a £1200 option for "whole block" to be replaced...
By this point I had it fixed at a local specialist who knew all about them and had done many.
I persisted for a proper itemised quote from the dealer, eventually making a complaint to their principal who agreed it was not acceptable service... The proper quote was slightly higher again, so I complained for the hell of it and asked what the difference was between my (20+years at VW) specialist doing it and them, and to be fair he didn't try and make too much up to counter that.
About a month later I heard they went bust.
So... Still with me?
In summary, from what I have heard here and experienced, the problem only shows after about 5 years, which I guess is ~12k miles a year (average for alot of people I guess these days) going on my first car, and even though my second was getting on 9 years, at 60k on my second.
77k you have done well in my opinion, just don't let a dealer rip you off. They will claim the diags take quite a long time - it's not worth the money. I have sat there with someone and it took longer for the laptop to boot than it did for it to read all the data!
BTW - just to check, did you notice that your traction control was the problem, but your ABS still worked fine?
I have posted here before about my two experiences, but not sure if I updated the last.
The first was my nearly new 07 Cupra that saw the fault about 65k in 2011/12. After alot of arguing with the dealer (different from where I had bought it as that one had gone bust!) I raised it with Seat UK who were quite helpful and I can't recall what I paid but I think it was £200 at most. I believe there was a tech bulletin floating around dealers that had the information about it all, same as for the soggy under-bonnet sound-proofing which they denied was an issue too (which I also got done FOC).
For various reasons I sold it soon after that and recently got a 57 FR that had only been about 6k a year, and last year got to over 60k and guess what, same again. Tried a polite enquiry to Seat UK, they said to get dealer diags (I had already had 3rd party diags FOC!) to send to them. Dealer wanted £90, I asked for a quote for what I believed the issue was BEFORE they did the diag on the basis that if it was that then they would knock the £90 off if I paid - if I couldn't get goodwill from Seat UK for some/all. They quoted "about £400".
The dealer did the diagnostic, said it was "an ABS valve issue" but couldn't confirm exactly what as the mechanic was not in by the time I collected it... I called Seat UK, they got the information from the dealer and said it wasnt a known issue and didn't want anything to do with it. The "entertaining" bit was when I asked for a copy of the diagnostic report. They refused and told me to go back to the dealer. The dealer said they only have paper copies and had thrown it away. After a "discussion" with the service manager he amazingly asked for £90 to give me the report (not realising that I had not actually been charged for the first as it was pending the response from Seat UK). I said I had already paid for one and not had it, he said he couldnt just allocate time and not have it paid for... Seat UK incidentally denied there ever was a fault/issue and couldn't find any record of me talking to them about my first car!
So I asked for a proper quote to be emailed to me (to try and prove it was the part that has a known fault!), which was a screenshot of their billing system and the line "ABS valve replacement" and now at £800, but a £1200 option for "whole block" to be replaced...
By this point I had it fixed at a local specialist who knew all about them and had done many.
I persisted for a proper itemised quote from the dealer, eventually making a complaint to their principal who agreed it was not acceptable service... The proper quote was slightly higher again, so I complained for the hell of it and asked what the difference was between my (20+years at VW) specialist doing it and them, and to be fair he didn't try and make too much up to counter that.
About a month later I heard they went bust.
So... Still with me?
In summary, from what I have heard here and experienced, the problem only shows after about 5 years, which I guess is ~12k miles a year (average for alot of people I guess these days) going on my first car, and even though my second was getting on 9 years, at 60k on my second.
77k you have done well in my opinion, just don't let a dealer rip you off. They will claim the diags take quite a long time - it's not worth the money. I have sat there with someone and it took longer for the laptop to boot than it did for it to read all the data!
BTW - just to check, did you notice that your traction control was the problem, but your ABS still worked fine?
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