Refusing a Car Part - Within my rights?

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matgull wrote: »

The problem we have is that we have given quite a lot of trust already - we bought the car for £5.5k 4 years ago (from Car Craft - I know; don't get me started) and have probably spent £5k extra on it. Now the time has come to say "enough is enough".

If it was the first problem, then fine, but it's not.

I believe the garage will try to get us to pay, but that considering how much we have paid to them in the past few years, and the fact they definitely tried, and got caught trying, to pull a fast one 2 years ago, we are in a strong position.

just keeps getting worse OP, you say you caught them trying to sting you a few years back but still you took it back there? wheres the logic in that?

i say sell it to them, agree a price and let them deal with it.

skiddlydiddly

Is it a DCi engine?If so, check the 3 wires coming off the loom under the battery into the MAP sensor on the intercooler to throttle body pipe.Its common for them to snap as they are too short and this puts the car into limp mode and is a common fault.I had mine soldered back on and no problems since.

cyclonebri1

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

Is it a DCi engine?If so, check the 3 wires coming off the loom under the battery into the MAP sensor on the intercooler to throttle body pipe.Its common for them to snap as they are too short and this puts the car into limp mode and is a common fault.I had mine soldered back on and no problems since.

Typical behaviour from Renault trained mechanics, blindly do what the diagnostics tell them. I had 3 turbo pressure sensors fitted to my dci under waranty, never occured to the main dealer "techs" to check the connection to the ecu and not simply swap out parts,

jase1

Whatever you do, don't keep this car.

I have offloaded sheds for much less. There's being loyal and there's being unrealistic -- it's not just because it's a Renault, *any* car that has been through a story like this is likely to be flaky from this moment onwards.

skiddlydiddly

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Typical behaviour from Renault trained mechanics, blindly do what the diagnostics tell them. I had 3 turbo pressure sensors fitted to my dci under waranty, never occured to the main dealer "techs" to check the connection to the ecu and not simply swap out parts,

Yes, as much as it made sense I was loathe to let Renault connect it to a diagnostic and found the problem myself.It took a while but I wasted zero money on unecessary parts and got it soldered for free.