Vauxhall Puretech 1.2 belt failure - Known design fault - What can I do?

Funqi

Top sleuthing there!
According to the conditions set out here, my car fails on point 5, your car fails on point 1.
2025-02-11_PureTech_Terms_and_Conditions_UK_Aug_2025.pdf

However a previous poster on this thread has said, just make the application anyway. They paid for his repair costs on his DS.

To be entitled to a reimbursement, all of the following criteria must be met:
 1. The repair was carried out between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2024 (inclusive), and related to any of the following: a. An oil pressure issue (resulting from premature degradation of the timing belt) on a vehicle equipped with 1.0 / 1.2 PureTech non-turbo engine produced from June 2012 to June 2022, or with a 1.2 PureTech turbo engine produced from April 2014 to June 2022. b. Oil over-consumption linked to a piston ring issue on a vehicle equipped with a 1.2 PureTech turbo engine before Euro 6.2, produced from April 2014 to July 2018. c. Oil over-consumption linked to an oil separator issue on a vehicle equipped with a 1.2 PureTech turbo engine (Euro 6.2 and beyond), produced from February 2018 to February 2023.

 2. You paid for the repair and have received no contribution or a partial contribution towards the repair.

 3. At the date of the repair, the vehicle was less than 10 years from the warranty start date (usually the first registration date) and had incurred less than 112,000 miles.

4. The maintenance was carried out in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations (time / mileage interval & oil grade, quality and quantity), by a Stellantis authorised repairer. The three latest detailed invoices before the date of the repair will be required. Alternatively, a maintenance book stamped by an authorised repairer belonging to the Stellantis network will be accepted. We will consider acceptable a maximum delay of 3 months / 1,800 miles in the maintenance schedule.

5. The diagnosis and repair were carried out by an authorised repairer belonging to the Stellantis network.

Baldytyke88

Funqi said:

I have made sure to service it, altho by a mechanic at a garage I've known and trusted since we were young lads. It has a full service history, but since I have owned it, not by the main dealer. 

Did they not advise you to change the timing belt? Recalls are listed online when you check the MOT, it sounds like someone wasn't on the ball.

cletus1

Basically the dealer at my end is denying all knowledge of a “ten year extension” 

 

Funqi

Baldytyke88 said:

Funqi said:

I have made sure to service it, altho by a mechanic at a garage I've known and trusted since we were young lads. It has a full service history, but since I have owned it, not by the main dealer. 

Did they not advise you to change the timing belt? Recalls are listed online when you check the MOT, it sounds like someone wasn't on the ball.

No, I didn't know anything about it. I didn't need to check online about the MOT. It came with a new MOT, so I knew when it was due. Or you mean the MOT tester should have known?

Funqi

Actually yes I do remember looking around to see if there had been a recall, albeit when the car was already in the garage with a failed belt.
As I had bought it from an independent dealer, I wondered how I would even be notified if there had been a recall. There was no recall for my car or any Vauxhall cars with these engines. 
I just looked on the government MOT website. No outstanding recall on my car.

Funqi

cletus1 said:

Basically the dealer at my end is denying all knowledge of a “ten year extension” 

 

Well, you can show them now. Have you ever had the belt changed yet on your car?

cletus1

Yes I had the belt changed at a main dealer last year 

Funqi

I suppose all you can do right now is wait and see what their diagnosis is.