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Yet another recall campaign........

Post by sapphireblack » Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:52 pm

You could be right, but lets hope you're wrong🤞

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Post by StuBeeDoo » Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:54 pm

sapphireblack wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 3:52 pmYou could be right, but lets hope you're wrong🤞
Either way, I will report back. :thumbsup:
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Post by Leslie » Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:30 pm

The actual spannering should be very fast on drivers only airbag , the coding after could certainly and probably will take ages , why they wouldn't do the 2 together in this case and get one coding I dunno :(

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Post by StuBeeDoo » Mon Feb 03, 2025 4:10 pm

Well, it's been done today. Allegedly it doesn't need a new airbag. After the EGR cooler debacle (two visits, both telling me the cooler didn't need to be replaced, and then a third recall when the cooler did need to be replaced) I'm not confident.

I hadn't even got home when they 'phoned to say the car was ready to collect and telling me it needs the tyres replaced because they're not approved.
Half an hour after that, another call to say that both headlamp level sensors need to be replaced (haven't looked at them myself, so not sure yet) and a steering rack end needs to be replaced (both were new before the MOT at the beginning of November!).
I really have no faith in all this "value added" malarky. :headbang:
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Post by sapphireblack » Mon Feb 03, 2025 4:31 pm

Dont we all hate the adding value BS. Did they even look at the steering rack ends before condemning them? If both were new two month's ago i imagine they still look new after just two months' use.

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Post by Greydog » Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:00 pm

Had the Air Bag recall and like you got a phone call telling Recall Work done but they considered the car unsafe to drive ?? Asked why they told me it was fitted with non standard bushes which could fail at any time Bushes and subframe bushes are PTFE. Many miles later and they haven't fallen off :rofl: :rofl:

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Post by Wayfarer » Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:34 pm

The dealership concerned didn’t happen to be Bristol Street motors or Vertu by any chance as has two similar calls after my daughters Skoda went in for routine servicing, I just avoid them at all cost now

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Post by StuBeeDoo » Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:25 pm

Wayfarer wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:34 pmThe dealership concerned didn’t happen to be Bristol Street motors or Vertu by any chance as has two similar calls after my daughters Skoda went in for routine servicing, I just avoid them at all cost now
Yes, Vertu. To be honest, I use them because they're convenient. Maybe next time I'll take it to Lloyd Newcastle.

I can't help thinking that even if the steering wheel airbag is OK, it won't be long before there is a recall on the passenger side one - and that's going to mean having the dashboard out. :o :headbang:

Sodding airbags are more trouble than they're worth.
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Post by Wayfarer » Tue Feb 04, 2025 6:00 pm

I’ve used Lloyds in Colne even though I live in Derbyshire and have used them and continue to do, since I bought the x5 in 2018, always found the service to be very good, having said that had a couple of issues, both were sorted very quickly and professionally at minimum incontinence to me.

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Post by Glen » Mon Feb 10, 2025 3:31 pm

Yeah got mine done back end of January in and out in half an hour result :)

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