I'm sure everyone on here appreciates the problems with these seats. I wanted to post to get peoples opinions so here goes...
My 200 has done 16.5k and for the past 5 months the driver side Recaro has been making the worse high pitched sweaking sound. It's driving me mad, as soon as I move an inch the bloody thing squeaks loudly and anyone in the car can hear it very clearly. It's coming from the back part of the seat and constantly does it as I'm driving.
The dealer has had the car twice now and again I took it down for the third time to today to diagnose the problem. Finally they've accepted the problem but later today I got a call from RUK denying responsibility but telling me as I was such a great customer they would pay half of the 250 odd quid to fix it.
I refused this and they upped their contribution to 80% so I would only have to pay £45. I think it's an insult. IMO the seat is not fit for purpose so I shouldn't even be wasting my time taking the car back and forth. My previous car (R27) didn't have a sweaking seat.
I've spoken to trading standards and if need be will go further as I feel disgusted the dealer can't do more considering during the past 3 years I've spent over 35k in their establishment.
Thoughts from owners would be welcome?
My 200 has done 16.5k and for the past 5 months the driver side Recaro has been making the worse high pitched sweaking sound. It's driving me mad, as soon as I move an inch the bloody thing squeaks loudly and anyone in the car can hear it very clearly. It's coming from the back part of the seat and constantly does it as I'm driving.
The dealer has had the car twice now and again I took it down for the third time to today to diagnose the problem. Finally they've accepted the problem but later today I got a call from RUK denying responsibility but telling me as I was such a great customer they would pay half of the 250 odd quid to fix it.
I refused this and they upped their contribution to 80% so I would only have to pay £45. I think it's an insult. IMO the seat is not fit for purpose so I shouldn't even be wasting my time taking the car back and forth. My previous car (R27) didn't have a sweaking seat.
I've spoken to trading standards and if need be will go further as I feel disgusted the dealer can't do more considering during the past 3 years I've spent over 35k in their establishment.
Thoughts from owners would be welcome?
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