Warranty

[Guest JonathanK]

Last post asked for recs for service.

 

If I went to a VW or Ford dealer with my Seat, how do you think that would affect the warranty. It's a 115PD so the same engine in all 3. Surely Seat couldn't get out of any warranty claims inside the 3 years if it's been serviced to the same schedule?

 

What thoughts?

 

JK

[Guest JIMSTDI]

from what fords told myself,if i take my ford to anyone else apart from fords

then the 3year warranty is non and void

 

so for the sake of taking it to vw or fords,stick with seat

its not worth the hassel if trying to get a warranty claim sorted...

 

once the warranty is up then go where u like

our warranty is up next october on our focus and i wont be taking it back to fords

 

aall the best james

[Ivor_E_Tower]

If you are inside the 3-year warranty stick to the proper dealers (Ford dealers for a Galaxy, Seat for Alhambra and VW for Sharan). What you will save will be greatly outweighed if you have a problem - and the savings will be marginal especially when considered in the light of spending about

[Guest SA Intruder]

The rules changed somewhat today.

 

You can now take your car to an approved non-dealer garage and maintain your Warranty. This also therefore applies to other franchises. So you are both wrong-ish. This is still rather vague, though.

 

Check out the news, if you can find anything about it.....

 

And I wouldn't listen to Ford dealers about anything....guaranteed Bullmud.

[iainkirk]

"Approved non-dealer garage"....but approved by who??

[Guest JIMSTDI]

where did you hear this sa

if thats the case its a totaly different ball game now

 

mind u think id much rather stay with the dealership untill the warranty is up

 

they have always been very fair(smc)

 

all the best james

[Ivor_E_Tower]

The rules change today because of the end of the so-called "block exemption" legislation ... but the existing warranties have paperwork that will require the car to be serviced by authorised dealers, so I still say that for the savings involved on a purchase price of about

[Guest SA Intruder]

No; since my primary source was from some SMMT guy this morning on Radio 4, I am struggling to back the dialogue (which was quite encouraging and somewhat detailed) up from t'Internet news sources!

 

But I did speak to BCH on another topic and they've shifted some of their service dealers around and blacked others! As of today.

 

So, could be a big deal, but as you say, a little early for heroics just yet.

[Ivor_E_Tower]

Yes, and although the rules change today, as with most EC legislation, there is a time period allowed for compliance. So apparently nothing can be done to insist that the car manufacturers/dealers change their way of operating for about another year.

[Guest JIMSTDI]

but how many people would go else where to get there car service

 

myself id much rather let the people in the know do the job

 

ive not had anyreal probs with smc and dont see the point in going else where

 

it does make u wonder,when im at smc fords u c a lot of cars in for a service and lot of which are vw`s,rover,bmws,and even mercs

 

so somebody somewhere is doing a good job

 

no cars from italy :lol:

 

with a name like fiat panda u would want one :D

 

james

[Guest ANDY FITZGERALD]

:lol: I HAD HEARD ABOUT THESE CHANGES FROM A GUY IN THE TRADE, HOWEVER HE CONFIRMED THE TIMESCALE WAS NEXT YEAR AS IVOR SUGGESTS...

[Ivor_E_Tower]

I have posted a separate thread on this topic: "Block exemption".

Ivor.