Faulty Leased Car

neilmcl

AdrianC said:

neilmcl said:

But the dealer is saying there's nothing they can find wrong with it. There's only so much they'll do under the manufacturer's warranty to investigate.

No great surprise there.

A single glitch, no fault found when it got to their workshop, nothing in the ECU logs. What do you want them to do? Use it themselves until it does it again? And if it doesn't in - say - a week, a month? Scrap it?

If you really don't trust the car, then that's not an issue with the car, it's one with your own attitude towards it. So ask what the settlement for the lease is, and chop it in.

I'm not the OP.

TobyLarone

AdrianC said:

neilmcl said:

But the dealer is saying there's nothing they can find wrong with it. There's only so much they'll do under the manufacturer's warranty to investigate.

No great surprise there.

A single glitch, no fault found when it got to their workshop, nothing in the ECU logs. What do you want them to do? Use it themselves until it does it again? And if it doesn't in - say - a week, a month? Scrap it?

If you really don't trust the car, then that's not an issue with the car, it's one with your own attitude towards it. So ask what the settlement for the lease is, and chop it in.

Crikey, sure told me!

AdrianC

TobyLarone said:

AdrianC said:

neilmcl said:

But the dealer is saying there's nothing they can find wrong with it. There's only so much they'll do under the manufacturer's warranty to investigate.

No great surprise there.

A single glitch, no fault found when it got to their workshop, nothing in the ECU logs. What do you want them to do? Use it themselves until it does it again? And if it doesn't in - say - a week, a month? Scrap it?

If you really don't trust the car, then that's not an issue with the car, it's one with your own attitude towards it. So ask what the settlement for the lease is, and chop it in.

Crikey, sure told me!

I think you may be misinterpreting me. I'm not meaning it as a dig at you.

Put yourself in the dealer's position...
They've had a car brought into them, on a recovery flatbed. It behaves just fine when they look at it, and there's nothing logged in the ECUs.
What do they do...?

TobyLarone

I sympathise with them to an extent, we are at a crossroads with the dealer at the moment.
It was frankly scary, that's all. Will see how pans out over the next couple of days. It's a shame as I really like the car.

born_again

TobyLarone said:

I forgot to mention, this is an electric car

Make?

TobyLarone

born_again said:

TobyLarone said:

I forgot to mention, this is an electric car

Make?

e-Golf

molerat

The problem is you are not driving a car, you are driving a computer with wheels and, as with your home computer, control / alt / delete makes the problem go away and it may never return.

AdrianC

molerat said:

The problem is you are not driving a car, you are driving a computer with wheels and, as with your home computer, control / alt / delete makes the problem go away and it may never return.

Modern vehicles have so many computers in them, controlling so many different aspects of the vehicle, that that applies to internal combustion-powered vehicles just as much as EVs.

onlyfoolsandparking

If it's a computer on wheels, have you tried turning it off and on again 

Grumpy_chap

onlyfoolsandparking said:

If it's a computer on wheels, have you tried turning it off and on again 

That is exactly what the OP did:

TobyLarone said:

car cut out at 70mph on Sunday on the motorway. I pulled over, turned it off and back on and it seemed fine