Arnold Clark Peugeot 207 SW £20 Faulty Washer Pump leads to £2100 Repair Bill

Strider590

Regardless of how well known this fault is, Peugeot/Citroen are LEGENDARY for electrical faults that write of relatively new cars.

peter12345678910

No wonder you see so many of these cars in auto trader and garages, I guess the Japanese cars go first.

mrsolrak

Hindsight! If this helps current owners to have this checked out and future owners to raise this issue at point of sale then some good will come from this.

Anyway, after emailing Peugeot CEO, a slightly positive holding response from Arnold Clark:

"We are working with the branch to see if we are able to offer you a greater contribution towards the outstanding repair on your car. We will come back to you as soon as we can, we have contacted Peugeot ourselves and are waiting on confirmation from them, once we have this we will contact you with a proposal to resolve this matter for you."

Let's see what happens...

motorguy

mrsolrak wrote: »

Hindsight! If this helps current owners to have this checked out and future owners to raise this issue at point of sale then some good will come from this.

Anyway, after emailing Peugeot CEO, a slightly positive holding response from Arnold Clark:

"We are working with the branch to see if we are able to offer you a greater contribution towards the outstanding repair on your car. We will come back to you as soon as we can, we have contacted Peugeot ourselves and are waiting on confirmation from them, once we have this we will contact you with a proposal to resolve this matter for you."

Let's see what happens...

So basically as i said in post 2 then?

michaels

How much would the repair cost from a non-franchise garage?

mrsolrak

Result: Contribution from Peugeot and Arnold Clark to fund the repair fully. Booked in Monday! Persistence has paid off.

JP08

peter12345678910 wrote: »

No wonder you see so many of these cars in auto trader and garages, I guess the Japanese cars go first.

Japanese cars just don't go in auto trader etc. People just buy them and run and run and run and run them. If it doesn't give you aggro, you don't need to pass it on to some other poor sod.

peter12345678910

JP08 wrote: »

Japanese cars just don't go in auto trader etc. People just buy them and run and run and run and run them. If it doesn't give you aggro, you don't need to pass it on to some other poor sod.

Somebody had to say it.

cajef

peter12345678910 wrote: »

Somebody had to say it.

Well after running Honda cars for many years apart from routine service and maintenance the only one I have had a fault with was caused by a stone through the aircon condenser.

My next door neighbour bought my old Civic it is now thirteen years old, it has never failed an MOT and he has not had any faults either.