Van issues: Warranty? Scrapping?

please_help_me

Hi there - I hope someone has some fabulous advice!

My husband bought a Vauxhall Combo nine months ago. Had lots of things wrong with it here and there. Place he bought it from of course, completely disinterested. It has now totally and utterly died... possibly the engine, possibly the head gasket, possibly the turbo. Garage aren't 100% what it is atm.

Should we try and go down the route of trying to claim against the warranty. The garage have said they are always such a nightmare to apply to, as you have to list every nut and bolt that needs replacing and they are not entirely sure what it is yet. They could replace the engine and turbo which may or may not fix it, and basically it would take them so long to do, they don't normally do it for warranty purposes. Could take it to another garage? Could take it to Vauxhall?

Or should we just scrap it? How is best to scrap it? Lots of websites offering 'good prices'?

Please help. We're absolutely clueless...

Then... after this is sorted, he'll probably needs a new van. Should he lease one? Buy another? From where...

Rambles over :rotfl:

verityboo

I'd suggest a different garage if the current one thinks that replacing the engine & turbo might not fix it.
There are plenty of reasonably quick and easy tests which can be carried out to at least rule out some of the possible reasons for the problem. It doesn 't sound as though the current garage can be bothered

s_b

These later combo vans with the 1700 turbo engines in are terrible things for turbos going and wrecking engines,now you could argue that a proper service schedule regime would stop this and probably so but most users these days just tend to run them till mot time and then ask the mechanic to do a bit of a service whilst its in there whatever that means

the smaller engines arent much better as they slip their chains and pistons hit things

cant help you OP but a s/h engine and ancilleries wont be cheap as half the vans on the road need this lump or the box of tricks that runs it


bring back the old turbo isuzi combo van went forever they did