Hi, my aged (05) Leon FR TDI is knocking on a bit and niggles are doing my head in now. Aside from the locks randomly locking/not locking (they'll open eventually if I keep pulling on the inside handle and other times won't even bother locking at all) culminated in last night/this morning someone going into have a look around inside it. Aside from emptying the glove box all over the car and tipping the pockets out of tissues/cloths etc to clear the steamy windscreen nothing appears to be broken. They'd have a job on starting it anyway as it's been stood a few weeks and it needed a boost start last week but runs fine, still good on fuel etc.
I'm torn. I've had it since new, 157k miles and it's never let me down. Had a replacement heavy duty clutch last year, fires up when battery is charged just fine. Apart from a healthy hunger for headlight bulbs and previously brakes (until I ground the mating faces of the hubs off, now seems fine) the only fault is the windscreen washers (front/back) hardly works (pump replaced, same so next is to try pipes) and this door thing.
It manifested as a passenger door not unlocking then worked its way round the car over time to a random door. Now it's not locking all the doors and people can get in.
Time to get shut, easy fixes or scrap it? I have another car (07 plate Jetta 2.0 tfsi) which is crap on fuel, no faster and handles like a barge but doesn't have any issues (yet) and have been putting off buying or leasing a new car this year because I'm saving for a house deposit (which I would have had if the banks hadn't changed to 85% LTV mortgages, grrr) before I change cars.
Despite never really wanting the car in the first place (I wanted something faster) it's been a faithful servant and I'm loathe to let it go because it is reliable and good on fuel (48-54 mpg generally), but if it needs money spending it's maybe time to get shut. Longest I've ever owned anything and I wanted rid after two weeks! Weird how things work out.
So, do the fixes/pay for em doing or get shut? What would you do?
I'm torn. I've had it since new, 157k miles and it's never let me down. Had a replacement heavy duty clutch last year, fires up when battery is charged just fine. Apart from a healthy hunger for headlight bulbs and previously brakes (until I ground the mating faces of the hubs off, now seems fine) the only fault is the windscreen washers (front/back) hardly works (pump replaced, same so next is to try pipes) and this door thing.
It manifested as a passenger door not unlocking then worked its way round the car over time to a random door. Now it's not locking all the doors and people can get in.
Time to get shut, easy fixes or scrap it? I have another car (07 plate Jetta 2.0 tfsi) which is crap on fuel, no faster and handles like a barge but doesn't have any issues (yet) and have been putting off buying or leasing a new car this year because I'm saving for a house deposit (which I would have had if the banks hadn't changed to 85% LTV mortgages, grrr) before I change cars.
Despite never really wanting the car in the first place (I wanted something faster) it's been a faithful servant and I'm loathe to let it go because it is reliable and good on fuel (48-54 mpg generally), but if it needs money spending it's maybe time to get shut. Longest I've ever owned anything and I wanted rid after two weeks! Weird how things work out.
So, do the fixes/pay for em doing or get shut? What would you do?