Re: Punto Power Steering
My wife's Punto (X-reg), is currently in at a dealer 90 miles away in Manchester, where it broke down on Sunday.
She has been presented with a cost in the region of £800 to fix her steering which went wrong on her on the way home to North Wales.
Here we are again! Modern cars, upto date technology, supposedly top notch design. The steering fails at 68,000 miles less than 5 years old. What are these spotty faced graduates doing, they sit up these computer screens competing with each other to "design" the most expensive parts they can - tossers!
The part supply is modular, i.e. you can't replace the offending part, you have to replace everything else that's attached to it as well! You wouldn't mind if this reduced the cost to you the customer but it doesn't. The car costs relatively cheap at new purchase - they get the money back later!
Bastards - they ought to rot in hell!
Remember the old days, when cars were cars? The Morris Minor, the MGBs, the Triumphs! They were built to last and if anything did go wrong, they didn't cost the earth to fix - even if you had to take it in to a garage.
Reliability has been built out of modern cars, one would think that would reduce the cost to the customer, but instead of being cheap to fix they are ridiculously expensive.
This fault is a very dangerous one, you could argue that it should not have happened, the car is a potential death trap when something like this fails. The car has been serviced regularly and is in otherwise very good condition. If this is down to wear and tear then surely there should have been some sort of warning. You knew on the old cars when something was amiss days and weeks before failure, all you get now is a light coming on the dashboard when it actually packs up!
We have to make a decision as to whether it is worthwhile fixing. I would prefer her to trade in and get something else, something reliable, something you can have faith in - certainly not a Fiat!
The problem now is what do we do now when our car is stuck in a Fiat dealer - he ain't going to want to sell us anything other than a Fiat.
We would have preferred to go local, even if it was a Fiat dealer, as long as it was closer to home, but apparently the Fiat dealers do not network unlike Ford, Vauxhall or Peugot, so we have to trek all over to bloody Manchester and take what ever they have with their inflated city prices.
We definitely do not want another Fiat!
My wife's Punto (X-reg), is currently in at a dealer 90 miles away in Manchester, where it broke down on Sunday.
She has been presented with a cost in the region of £800 to fix her steering which went wrong on her on the way home to North Wales.
Here we are again! Modern cars, upto date technology, supposedly top notch design. The steering fails at 68,000 miles less than 5 years old. What are these spotty faced graduates doing, they sit up these computer screens competing with each other to "design" the most expensive parts they can - tossers!
The part supply is modular, i.e. you can't replace the offending part, you have to replace everything else that's attached to it as well! You wouldn't mind if this reduced the cost to you the customer but it doesn't. The car costs relatively cheap at new purchase - they get the money back later!
Bastards - they ought to rot in hell!
Remember the old days, when cars were cars? The Morris Minor, the MGBs, the Triumphs! They were built to last and if anything did go wrong, they didn't cost the earth to fix - even if you had to take it in to a garage.
Reliability has been built out of modern cars, one would think that would reduce the cost to the customer, but instead of being cheap to fix they are ridiculously expensive.
This fault is a very dangerous one, you could argue that it should not have happened, the car is a potential death trap when something like this fails. The car has been serviced regularly and is in otherwise very good condition. If this is down to wear and tear then surely there should have been some sort of warning. You knew on the old cars when something was amiss days and weeks before failure, all you get now is a light coming on the dashboard when it actually packs up!
We have to make a decision as to whether it is worthwhile fixing. I would prefer her to trade in and get something else, something reliable, something you can have faith in - certainly not a Fiat!
The problem now is what do we do now when our car is stuck in a Fiat dealer - he ain't going to want to sell us anything other than a Fiat.
We would have preferred to go local, even if it was a Fiat dealer, as long as it was closer to home, but apparently the Fiat dealers do not network unlike Ford, Vauxhall or Peugot, so we have to trek all over to bloody Manchester and take what ever they have with their inflated city prices.
We definitely do not want another Fiat!
