3 Year Warranty - Nearly Up

[Notebook]

Hi All

3 Year warranty up in the next few days and the MOT is due.

Looking over the car that I have had for under a year I have 2 points I wonder if the warranty should sort out and so would appreciate your comments. Driver seat belt retracts very slowly and also near the nuts on 2 of the alloys there is "bubbling" under the surface.

Thanks

Nick

[Parts-King]

Seat belt should be sorted no problem, wheel nut bubbling wont be covered

Your warranty is 3 years and not 3 years 1 day, get it sorted BEFORE the last day of the warranty. The number of people we have coming in just over the 3 years and saying "I've had this problem from new" is amazing.

Get everything looked at before the warranty expires

Kingo

[dave.m]

Seat belt should be sorted no problem, wheel nut bubbling wont be covered

Your warranty is 3 years and not 3 years 1 day, get it sorted BEFORE the last day of the warranty. The number of people we have coming in just over the 3 years and saying "I've had this problem from new" is amazing.

Get everything looked at before the warranty expires

Kingo

Kingo, I think he's saying the wheels are bubbling near the wheel nuts not the actual nuts themselves ? Better get the finger out

Nick and claim the alloys under warranty as well. Good luck.

[Hoovie]

As Dave says

Re seatbelt - have you fully extended this and let it retract, then repeated a few times? sometimes they can get a bit caught up and that process helps to 'realign' the belts (just a thought and worth the 2 minutes it will take to see)

[Parts-King]

Ooops, I mis-read that sorry

Yes better get a move on and have it done, as mentioned above, no good going in the day after it expires

Kingo

[llith]

Nick,

Get the MOT done now , you can take it in one month before it is three years old.So if a warranty item fails the MOT you will know about it before the warranty ends.If you take your registation document with you the MOT runs to the anniversary date next year.

As it happens took mine yesterday to a local ATS franchise,26 AUG, and my car is 3yrs old on 24 SEPT.It passed no problem and because I took the reg doc with me the MOT runs to 24 SEPT 2009.

Regards

Llith

[Hoovie]

Still got that 'orrible VW Avatar, Llith

Re MOTs, now they are computerised, you don't even need the Reg Doc - the system automatically puts in the right date (I took mine along for that reason and they said they didn't need it as it was automated and they were right :) )

[llith]

Still got that 'orrible VW Avatar, Llith

Re MOTs, now they are computerised, you don't even need the Reg Doc - the system automatically puts in the right date (I took mine along for that reason and they said they didn't need it as it was automated and they were right :) )

Hoovie , got the info from the DVLA website :

''If the vehicle is tested within the calendar month prior to when the MOT is due, the test certificate will run from the date of the test to one year after the expiry date of the current certificate. For example, if the current certificate was due to expire on 1 April 2007, and the vehicle was presented on or after 2 March 2007, the certificate would run from the test date until 1 April 2008.

The same rule would also apply when the vehicle is taken in within a calendar month of its first MOT. In this case, the vehicle owner would need to present their registration document.''

So my advice to Nick would be to take the reg doc for the first MOT,just in case.

Avatar stays until I make a decision on my next car ;)

[Hoovie]

I would agree with taking the reg doc just to make sure (what I said is still right though :D)

The wording on the DVLA website is interesting - I thought if you had it tested up to one month before, they would postdate the certificate to run from the expiry of the old one (or 3rd anniversary in case of 1st MOT) - so, for example, if an MOT ran out on 15th July, the test could be done at any time FROM the 16th June.

The way they word it, you could have a car whose MOT ran out on 31st of October, for example, and have a test done on 1st September and still have it postdated.

I wonder if that is a fairly recent change or I just misunderstood all the time

[Notebook]

Hi

I have tried pulling the seatbelt right out, worked on an escort I had, but not on this. You are correct ablout the alloys, its the wheel itself and not the nut. My last toyota I had from new and kept for 7 years and they didnt have a mark on them, so I guess something is up with these. I wonder if they will change just those or the whole set?

[Hoovie]

Notebook, I had the same bubbling on my wheels - very minor, but after reading about it on this forum, decided to ask the Dealer to have a look a month or so before the 3 years were up and they replaced any wheel that had the slightest bubble that had not 'broken' i.e. could not have been from a stone chip off the road but a manufacturing fault.

They ended up replacing all 4 wheels

[Notebook]

Thanks

Non of them have chips on them.