Black20VT
27-02-2003, 11:16
Hello there fellow SEATer's,
Like most other people on this site, my car seems to have a couple of squeaks. Some consistent and annoying and others seem to come and go.
So, I decided to contact the dealer to book it in to have them sorted.
They were as follows;
1. Squeaky dash
2. Squeaky drivers seat (not as bad after adjusting seat)
3. Squeaky passenger seat (only when passenger on board)
4. Knocking in rear
Gentleman came to pick up my car (1 hour late by the way) and I watched him drive it off (sad, I know). I park in the corner of the car park out of the way of other careless drivers, but the numpty old boy driving decides to take a short cut accross the kerb rather than letting the car pull forward out of the space before turning. Lucky, no damage!!
Anyway, car came back (30 mins late) after all the work being done.
I spoke to the service manager and he let me know what he'd done.
1. Took the dash apart, padded it out, tidied the wires etc
2. Adjusted the drivers door
3. Adjusted the passenger door
4. Tightened all suspension etc.
The dash still squeaks, louder and more consistent than before. Also, when the put the dials back in, they're off center and some of the rev counter is missing off the side and I can almost see down the right hand side past the speedo.
Why did the adjust the doors when it was the seats? I even told the bloke when he picked it up that it was the seats. Seems they made crap notes when I booked the car in and therefore assumed it was teh doors. There was nothing wrong with the doors!
Knocking seems good so far!
The service manager said he's been doing the job for years and squeaks come and go and there's nothing he can do about it. It's all to do with the plastic heating up and cooling down. He was also on about the car being made in sunny Spain and now it's here in cold England, it all starts to squeak.
What do you think I should do?
I was going to take it back to get the dials centered and hopefully to see if something can be done the fix the squeak. It's coming from just above the dials, where the domed bit meets the rest of the dash/facia.
Sorry, alot of that written above is crap, I'm just a bit wound up by it all. Adjusting doors, wonky dials, worse squeak, driving over kerbs etc.
:dunno:
What can you do about these things?
:cheers:
Chris.
Like most other people on this site, my car seems to have a couple of squeaks. Some consistent and annoying and others seem to come and go.
So, I decided to contact the dealer to book it in to have them sorted.
They were as follows;
1. Squeaky dash
2. Squeaky drivers seat (not as bad after adjusting seat)
3. Squeaky passenger seat (only when passenger on board)
4. Knocking in rear
Gentleman came to pick up my car (1 hour late by the way) and I watched him drive it off (sad, I know). I park in the corner of the car park out of the way of other careless drivers, but the numpty old boy driving decides to take a short cut accross the kerb rather than letting the car pull forward out of the space before turning. Lucky, no damage!!
Anyway, car came back (30 mins late) after all the work being done.
I spoke to the service manager and he let me know what he'd done.
1. Took the dash apart, padded it out, tidied the wires etc
2. Adjusted the drivers door
3. Adjusted the passenger door
4. Tightened all suspension etc.
The dash still squeaks, louder and more consistent than before. Also, when the put the dials back in, they're off center and some of the rev counter is missing off the side and I can almost see down the right hand side past the speedo.
Why did the adjust the doors when it was the seats? I even told the bloke when he picked it up that it was the seats. Seems they made crap notes when I booked the car in and therefore assumed it was teh doors. There was nothing wrong with the doors!
Knocking seems good so far!
The service manager said he's been doing the job for years and squeaks come and go and there's nothing he can do about it. It's all to do with the plastic heating up and cooling down. He was also on about the car being made in sunny Spain and now it's here in cold England, it all starts to squeak.
What do you think I should do?
I was going to take it back to get the dials centered and hopefully to see if something can be done the fix the squeak. It's coming from just above the dials, where the domed bit meets the rest of the dash/facia.
Sorry, alot of that written above is crap, I'm just a bit wound up by it all. Adjusting doors, wonky dials, worse squeak, driving over kerbs etc.
:dunno:
What can you do about these things?
:cheers:
Chris.