Short Term Rejection - Car - PCP Finance

StuieUK34

hi all,
low mileage PCP , as service (MB dealers) receipts tally up the mileage....
In short, 2.1 diesel engine on short run-about journeys = bad for the car, so could a simple thing..... I will post the results of the Diagnostic on Sat...

However, dealer will be paying for the diagnostic this weekend, and the wife wants to keep the car, and go on the waiting book for Mercedes to respray the car under the paint warranty....
MB wont respray the front wings as they have had a poor respray already (reason for my post, with the blisters and EML ! ) ....

Think its worth keeping the car and just hoping all is well at the end of lease....

Cheers to those who replied

ess0two

StuieUK34 wrote: »

hi all,
low mileage PCP , as service (MB dealers) receipts tally up the mileage....
In short, 2.1 diesel engine on short run-about journeys = bad for the car, so could a simple thing..... I will post the results of the Diagnostic on Sat...

However, dealer will be paying for the diagnostic this weekend, and the wife wants to keep the car, and go on the waiting book for Mercedes to respray the car under the paint warranty....
MB wont respray the front wings as they have had a poor respray already (reason for my post, with the blisters and EML ! ) ....

Think its worth keeping the car and just hoping all is well at the end of lease....

Cheers to those who replied

I've been on the receiving end of a clocked Merc, the ECU holds the true mileage.
The odometer can be frigged with a chip,other locations that hold the mileage can also be frigged,the gearbox,tyre pressure sensor etc.
The Merc dealer will run a diagnostic,mine had been upto 90k and wound back to 45k,all the SH etc tallied.
The fact it failed to start one day,uncovered that it had been clocked,long story but I got full refund.
As the mileage aint the issue here? you just need get paint and EML sorted.

StuieUK34

Hiya,
Kinda res-surecting this thread (kinda!)..

I had emailed the supplying dealer with regards to that Engine Management Light issue, to which they said:
For me to take to a local dealer to diagnose the problem, and upon receipt and report, they would refund me the cost of the Diagnosis. (unfortunatly, i cant see me getting my money back for the diagnosis)
There response to the fault was: bring it back to them so they can fix it.

So on Saturday, the car was taken to a MB independant specialist, and placed on the machine, to which the report showed the car has x2 faults relating to the exhaust emissions (MB call it Nox Sensors, normal cars call it o2/Lamda sensor).
The fix is to replace both of these sensors, and have them reprogrammed.
MB Dealers charge £1100 for this fix, and it would appear i have to use an MB dealer, given the nature of the sensors and programming involved.

Out of curiosity (and we have until the 7th May to be within the 30 days of purchase) , the report produced by the garage to show the faults on the car, do they qualify as "unfit for purpose" ??

I believe warrantys will cover this issue, but after talking to the RAC warranty firm, they were puzzled why i would asking for a claim like that in 2 weeks ownership.

Thats a fault that would have been with the vehicle before purchase, and the activation of the warning light (EML) is what triggered us to find what the issue is/was......


*** still case closed, above was just out of curiosity.... ***