1. Transport pucks
Usually PDI starts soon after delivery so the transport pucks are removed without much delay but in my case PDI won't start until late Feb so does this mean the transport pucks won't be removed till then? I don't want my car driven to the compound on the pucks (even a couple of miles) and I don't want it sitting on them for that long.
Although it will be in the covered compound for 2 months, the dealer says they might have to move it around inside the compound from time to time. Do you think they could cause damage with this light use? I don't want to inherit the much feared suspension issues down the line if it could be avoided early. Though I don't suppose the dealer will be impressed when I ask him to jack up my car and take up workshop time for a car that isn't being formally PDI'd for another few months.
I guess that the transport pucks have been on the car since it was assembled. It has been driven off the production line, around the factory to the train, off the train to a compound on the docks etc. etc. A couple of miles at low speed to the compound isn't going to do any harm. leaving them on until the PDI should not be an issue.
So whilst you don't want your car being driven on the pucks and being left for two or three months with the pucks in place you also recognise that asking the dealer to remove them now is verging on the unreasonable.
I don't know what is causing the much publicised (here) issue with the struts but I doubt if it is related to the transportation pucks - I'm prepare to be proved wrong. As I have said previously, the issue seems to me, at least, to be unrelated and sounds like there is an issue with the strut mount or bearing... In any case this issue, if it occurred, would be covered under warranty... and I think would occur whether the pucks are left in until February or not...
