My dealer has had no luck going through Seat UK to try and get me a car that is due to be built. Not surprised really considering how much demand there has been for them.
If Seat UK had any kind of customer service they’d offer to source me a stock car, manual or dsg and honour the offer I had regardless of any potential loss to them.
SEAT UK are inconsistent.
During my original order in OCT they actually contacted me out of the blue and sent me a cheque for £250 due to the delay in delivery
I then had an issue with that order, as I ordered side blades as part of the package but wasn't made aware that the price I paid only included the part.
The dealership were trying to charge for painting and fitting. According to the website there was no additional charge. According to the
brochure I found after it said that there may be a charge for painting only. It took about a month for CS to acknowledge it wasn't clear advertising and sort this for me.
Finally I had a similar issue. When the wrong spec'd vehicle turned up and my dealership had to search hard for a replacement vehicle close to my spec. Unfortunately they had no luck.
CS were not much
help in that situation. They saw themselves as separate from the dealership.
Mentioned that it was a franchise and originally left the responsibility with the dealership.
I had to chase SEAT UK for months to get anywhere.
I also had to find the name of a contact high up in SEAT and send them a message of complaint to get them give CS a kick up the arse.
It took over 50 emails and 3 months to get my original order resubmitted.
During the process I also warned them that if they took any longer I wouldnt be able to order a manual (with info from this forum)
They said they were not aware of the info, and continued with the case until the deadline passed.
I was then told that although my price and re order had been authorised, the manual was no longer available
so this meant it would be a different order which needed new authorisation from a different department to get it at the price of the manual.
From my experience they are not all joined up.
I've had the dealership, customer services and VWFS all try to
help me on my case. They've all helped but had very little control over any major pricing and gesture of goodwill decisions. They were all trying to contact other departments within SEAT to
help me.
Sorry for yet another long post.. just highlighting my experience as it seems to be a unique one.