Mine was bought private in fact I am the 3rd owner and was about 1.5 years out of warranty!
It did however have a full VW service history and I had the servicing done at the garage that repaired it post failure.
Great!!! Thanks Jimmgc51 this is exactly what I was looking for and you got a deal that I would gladly take any day
Now I just need to convince them that the 1st service that was done in a Skoda dealership has completely irrelevant
Think I'll need all the luck in the world
It's not ideal but it was serviced within VAG so it shouldn't matter because of a technicality but I'm not surprised they try it on. I would consider legal advice if I was faced with that bill for a design fault and they came back with that answer.
The dealership don't care and are allowed to profiteer from this. They will do whatever they can get away with to hit their figures for the month. Keep us updated.
VWCS called me yesterday after I wrote them a very long and detailed email including the VW technical bulletin about this issue (TB 15-12-01) and telling them that if the VW garage, where I serviced the car last June, had told me that I could replace the parts and avoid this huge damage I would've done it. No brainer
Their reply is still a big fat 0 !!!! throwing all the cost on me
I'm planning my next moves and thinking of going to citizen advice bureau but I'm not sure what else I can do....
Is there anyone else on this forum that got this kind of treatment or ended up having to pay for the repair? From reading through the forum it seems like everybody got a new engine FOC and just had to pay some percentage of the labour