Recall Notice TDI engine

[Brucie]

Guys

Might be of interest to some of you! Apologies if this is somewhere else, or if my crap computer skills mean the link is dodgy.

If the link fails, basically do a Google search on car recalls and it is pretty near the top of the list!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/?news/ae_news_story.php?id=52659

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news!

Cheers

 

[red line fun]

I got my FR 2nd half of October, so don't know if it might have been built as early as August? Am I safe to assume I'll get a letter from SEAT if mine is / might be affected?

 

[Tom B]

Thanks for the heads up...mother's car might be affected by this!

 

[bowliog]

If you lift up the carpat in the boot it should have a sticker on it giving u the build date.

 

[techie]

You will get a letter from SEAT, Skoda letters went out this week iirc.

 

[seat130fr]

i had doubts and didnt know when my car was built(havin got my car on september 1st im guessin mine was one to be recalled), so i rung up seat customer care on 0500 222222 and they called me back and said not to worry as if i am affected letters will be out asap.

i only rung seat assistance cuz when i rung my local garage they wer nothing but arsewipes! sorry IMG SEAT!!!! but u was

 

[Paul TDI]

Mine was changed during the 20k service today. Took delivery of the car in March/April 2004 so its a bit close to the affected dates. Got a new elecy window switch fitted and a little annoying rattle fixed too

Never got a letter from Seat UK to say it was affected, LC Charles took it upon themselves to sort it out.

 

[mallen57]

Dont think Seat are sending out letters, its basically a notice which Seat dealers recieved and the check will be carried out when vehicles go in for service checks. It all depends on what make of fuel pump is fitted. If its Bosch then its OK (which mine was), but if its manufactured by some other vendor then certain checks have to be carried out, i.e. retorquing of mounting bolts etc...

 

[sri_130]

Letter Arrived in the post on Thursday saying return your car Mr, or you're fuel pump will fall off and everyone will laugh at you.... If your car doesn't explode first.

right o, i'll drop her in on Thursday then.....

 

[Rich W]

Recall Notice TDI engine Reply to Thread

Got my letter last night - mine is a Leon 150 TDI, registered in June 2004.

 

[mymorph]

i emailed my stealer, a few days ago regarding this recall. They phoned back and subsequently transfered me to the service department whom were completely disinterested. as its going in for some warranty work( rear washer pipe come off ) and a new front grill (got smashed by a flying 2 foot wooden log) they will supposedly check it out then. but i get the distinct feeling they wont bother.

well ill see what happens!

 

[BGeeves]

Got my letter last night - mine is a Leon 150 TDI, registered in June 2004.

Same here.

Taking it in Friday.

 

[sri_130]

She's been in and straight out again. Paul @JCT600 in Yeadon sorted it within 2 hours.

Pity they didn't clean it, tune it up a bit more or give me a free Seat Pen, but hey, you can't have everything....

 

[Dudemeister]

I received my letter from Seat yesterday and we have an Altea with the 2.0TDI sport diesel engine. the link say only 1.4 and 1.9 diesel engines. Suppose i'd better give them a call.

Does anyone know if the 2.0tdi's are effected?

 

[Deleted member 5387]

Got my letter this morning for my 150PD Leon Cupra registered September 04. Booked it in with my local service dept, and they couldn't (wouldn't) give me a time as to when they'd look at it and said I could leave it with them all day! Don't have a day off work for the next 5 weeks, so hopefully my fuel pump won't explode and spray diesel all over everyone behind me!

 

[Craig Senior]

Mine was checked when it was serviced last week. New bolts ordered and fitted today. Car booked in for 3pm, all done and on my way home for 4.10pm.

 

[BGeeves]

Took mine to WJ King Sidcup. They said come up whenever but not between 1-2pm. Went at 2:30pm, out at 2:45pm

They are going to change the pump and bolts to the new ones, but will call once the parts have been ordered.

They seem to be quite a good dealer and according to a few people on here aswell.

 

[hibitdat]

I received my letter from Seat yesterday and we have an Altea with the 2.0TDI sport diesel engine. the link say only 1.4 and 1.9 diesel engines. Suppose i'd better give them a call.

Does anyone know if the 2.0tdi's are effected?

Got mine this morning for my Altea 2.0TDI as well so I will call the garage tomorrow... Have you found if our 2.0's are covered by this?

 

[Davidp]

Mine was checked when it was serviced last week. New bolts ordered and fitted today. Car booked in for 3pm, all done and on my way home for 4.10pm.

Does that mean you had to go in and they checked if it needed fixing then they had to ORDER THE BOLTS then you had to come back. You think they would have bolts in stock.
Got my letter yesterday but dont want to go in while the dealers arse about and then say 'come back next week when we have the bolts'. Bloody hell what a pain got a service in 3 months suppose thats too long to wait.
Why do dealers always act like thay are doing you a favour by making you wait and then ask you to come back.
rant over grr!

 

[Craig Senior]

Does that mean you had to go in and they checked if it needed fixing then they had to ORDER THE BOLTS then you had to come back. You think they would have bolts in stock.
Got my letter yesterday but dont want to go in while the dealers arse about and then say 'come back next week when we have the bolts'. Bloody hell what a pain got a service in 3 months suppose thats too long to wait.
Why do dealers always act like thay are doing you a favour by making you wait and then ask you to come back.
rant over grr!

They always have to order warrenty parts against specific chassis numbers IIRC so are unable to carry them in stock.

You would have thought that due to the number of vehicles affected and the fact that it is only a couple of bolts that have very little value that they would be able to stock them and change them there and then.

The way dealers operate will forever confuse me.