BarryT
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Cars owned: Yaris GR, Focus RS Edition, 996 RS, 997 RS 4.0L, 992 GT3 Touring, Speciale, 812 Superfast
Looking for some advice please...
We decided to replace our perfect RS Motorhome a few years ago for a 'smaller' burstner model that my wife could drive, the reasoning was my wife could then drive our son all over the country to do his go kart racing and i could concentrate more on work and weekends away on track days!!
Boy was this a bad idea!
The Burster has been a nightmare, its been back over 6 times for warranty work, had a new oven (another new one on order), new rams on the bed to store it away, numerous failed water pumps and the final straw, after 13k miles and being out of warranty by two days the turbo blew and damaged the top end on the engine.This resulted in my wife and son missing a one week holiday in north wales and spending 10 hours being recovered. The damage to the engine is 4k (£2k turbo and £2k engine)and Fiat are saying they will only contribute at best 50% towards the turbo repair, the reason for this is that my wife drove to the next junction as there was no lay by and damaged the engine.
We are arguing stating that the vehicle was 2 days out of warranty and the vehicle was registered by the supplying dealer 2 weeks prior to us collecting (we are basically saying it is in warranty). The question is, is it worth pursuing with a solicitor, if so, does anyone know any????
At work i have a fleet of over 70 transits and had oil pumps fail and the engine seize, Ford in all instances have been great and replaced. Fiat seem to be a PITA. My wife Fiat abarth had a new engine after only 10k miles....
Thanks in advance!
We decided to replace our perfect RS Motorhome a few years ago for a 'smaller' burstner model that my wife could drive, the reasoning was my wife could then drive our son all over the country to do his go kart racing and i could concentrate more on work and weekends away on track days!!
Boy was this a bad idea!
The Burster has been a nightmare, its been back over 6 times for warranty work, had a new oven (another new one on order), new rams on the bed to store it away, numerous failed water pumps and the final straw, after 13k miles and being out of warranty by two days the turbo blew and damaged the top end on the engine.This resulted in my wife and son missing a one week holiday in north wales and spending 10 hours being recovered. The damage to the engine is 4k (£2k turbo and £2k engine)and Fiat are saying they will only contribute at best 50% towards the turbo repair, the reason for this is that my wife drove to the next junction as there was no lay by and damaged the engine.
We are arguing stating that the vehicle was 2 days out of warranty and the vehicle was registered by the supplying dealer 2 weeks prior to us collecting (we are basically saying it is in warranty). The question is, is it worth pursuing with a solicitor, if so, does anyone know any????
At work i have a fleet of over 70 transits and had oil pumps fail and the engine seize, Ford in all instances have been great and replaced. Fiat seem to be a PITA. My wife Fiat abarth had a new engine after only 10k miles....
Thanks in advance!