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Car Dealer attempting to charge for diagnostics on almost new car

Pat38493 · 2024-07-25 14:29:06

If a car dealership is trying to say that you need to pay for diagnostics on a brand new car that is only a few weeks old to diagnose a fault, and the diagnostic fee is not refundable, even if it turns out to be a warranty fault (which it almost certainly will), is this valid? I would think that in this case you would just…

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born_again Posts: 20,519 Forumite

27 July 2024 at 5:12PM

Ibrahim5 said:

Just say no. I told them that I had bought a car with a warranty and I wasn't interested in petty, stupid squabbling between the dealers and the manufacturers and I wasn't paying an idiotic 'diagnostic fee' and they just said "OK, bring it in".

You are aware that a warranty does not cover everything.

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