I thought these were bad, but this is ridiculous. https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/368...00-skoda-fabia-needed-40000-worth-of-repairs/
I would question how he drives the car, give the he number of wheels he's had and having to have the whole engine replaced twice!
Also love the bit about not knowing what the actual cost was but made a random number up and went with it.
Typical Sun story.
The 1.4 tsi is known to be a dog. He's not even that rare in having one replaced under warranty. He then teamed a high powered engine with one of the weaker gearboxes fitted to a modern car...and diamond cut wheels which don't tend to last on our roads.
Probably is an exaggeration but checking any Skoda/polo gti forum would reveal that many people have had similar things just not all in the same car!
Just a small sample...
https://www.briskoda.net/forums/top...ly-please-if-you-have-had-an-engine-replaced/
Not bothered to find threads for all the other VW cars that use the same engine but yeah I believe.
OK its not German.
Similar thing happened in my old Focus, but it was a piece of kerbstone. No damage to the alloys but killed 2 very new tyres (less than 150 miles at £100+ each) with sidewall damage. At least they didn't deflate instantly, but with only 1 spare it was a recovery job. Grrrrr.Dave's Alfa comment reminded me of running over piece of wood in my Dad's Citroen Picasso. Damage none (at 40mph). Only in it as my Punto at the time had PAS failure. Not sure why wasn't put off Fiat's for life. Yet on my 6th Panda now