Hi All,
New to the forum I just wanted to share my experiences with the Main Stealer in my area as well as consult the gurus among you as to where to look for this issue. I have a 184 Diesel Leon 2014 plate, bought used back in November 16 went fine until around Feb 17 when I started to notice an intermittent starting fault. It would turn over and over 4-5 seconds then start but running fine no miss firing no loss of power etc.
During that turning over it will not fire on a single cylinder closest I can describe it would be getting no fuel, I have some footage of it I will attempt to scrape the audio from the video and post it here.
This happened maybe 1-2 times a month and it was cold so acceptable in my eyes anyway it has progressively got worse and worse 10 seconds turning over in 30Deg C heat something is definitely wrong! I took it into my Local Seat representative dealer and they have now had the car on and off for 8 weeks or more. They first seen the car in April and it's in for a further two weeks currently so this gives you an idea of the time scale involved here.
On the odd occasion, it has caught on a couple of cylinders but not enough to start i.e. rough starting as opposed to the usual tuning over and over not catching a single cylinder.
Diagnostics - There are none the car is throwing no faults Seat have confirmed it as has a friend with a Snap-On Diagnostics scanner so we have no hope on the ECU throwing a fault it seems.
Now onto the garage I have a dash camera and can I just say please everyone buy one!!! Caught the garage doing all sorts
1) Undertaking on dual carriageways
2) Replacing my rear light cluster due to water ingress turned up to collect and the newly fitted light unit is literally hanging out of the car!!!
3) Claimed the car was started once if not twice a day to reproduce the intermittent fault and I have footage of it being left out front for 5 working days out of the 7 it was in the garage.
4) One day they started it 20 times (not according to my dash camera you didn’t start it once)
5) Two chips to the paint work one when fitting the light another on the end of my drivers door clearly opened into a wall or rough surface.
6) Next up we have some potential fraud a fuel filter I paid for the part; fitting they did free under warranty, so then I have a convo with the senior mechanic and a trainee on the camera slagging me off calling me an F*ing anorak and all sorts (never met the guys) to then:
(senior) Has it had a fuel filter?
(Trainee) Yes brad fitted it.
(senior) Hmm but do you think he actually fitted it.
Sorry wait a minute a senior engineer just suggested a part I have paid for may not have been fitted on my car why on earth would he say something like that unless they are working that way on a daily basis.
Anyway, I have since recorded all sorts of funny noises coming from the fuel tanks hissing (sounded like I popped a tyre) loud buzzing with a full tank of fuel, weird sucking noises also got video of these I will attempt to attach those also. With this evidence Seat reportedly replaced the fuel tank but it's still making the sucking noises and the hissing was intermittent anyway.
As you can see I have had a hard time of it my car ran out of warranty in July they have kindly extended it for the starting fault personally I think they had little choice but still nice of them to do so.
I will release the name of the garage eventually so others in my area can avoid it like the plague.
Adding link to audio as promised (Cannot put a proper link in can someone please reply with the full link just needs https : // infront of it:
soundcloud.com/user-788017429/sets/leon-184-starting-fuel-pump-issue
Sorry about the essay,
Luke
New to the forum I just wanted to share my experiences with the Main Stealer in my area as well as consult the gurus among you as to where to look for this issue. I have a 184 Diesel Leon 2014 plate, bought used back in November 16 went fine until around Feb 17 when I started to notice an intermittent starting fault. It would turn over and over 4-5 seconds then start but running fine no miss firing no loss of power etc.
During that turning over it will not fire on a single cylinder closest I can describe it would be getting no fuel, I have some footage of it I will attempt to scrape the audio from the video and post it here.
This happened maybe 1-2 times a month and it was cold so acceptable in my eyes anyway it has progressively got worse and worse 10 seconds turning over in 30Deg C heat something is definitely wrong! I took it into my Local Seat representative dealer and they have now had the car on and off for 8 weeks or more. They first seen the car in April and it's in for a further two weeks currently so this gives you an idea of the time scale involved here.
On the odd occasion, it has caught on a couple of cylinders but not enough to start i.e. rough starting as opposed to the usual tuning over and over not catching a single cylinder.
Diagnostics - There are none the car is throwing no faults Seat have confirmed it as has a friend with a Snap-On Diagnostics scanner so we have no hope on the ECU throwing a fault it seems.
Now onto the garage I have a dash camera and can I just say please everyone buy one!!! Caught the garage doing all sorts
1) Undertaking on dual carriageways
2) Replacing my rear light cluster due to water ingress turned up to collect and the newly fitted light unit is literally hanging out of the car!!!
3) Claimed the car was started once if not twice a day to reproduce the intermittent fault and I have footage of it being left out front for 5 working days out of the 7 it was in the garage.
4) One day they started it 20 times (not according to my dash camera you didn’t start it once)
5) Two chips to the paint work one when fitting the light another on the end of my drivers door clearly opened into a wall or rough surface.
6) Next up we have some potential fraud a fuel filter I paid for the part; fitting they did free under warranty, so then I have a convo with the senior mechanic and a trainee on the camera slagging me off calling me an F*ing anorak and all sorts (never met the guys) to then:
(senior) Has it had a fuel filter?
(Trainee) Yes brad fitted it.
(senior) Hmm but do you think he actually fitted it.
Sorry wait a minute a senior engineer just suggested a part I have paid for may not have been fitted on my car why on earth would he say something like that unless they are working that way on a daily basis.
Anyway, I have since recorded all sorts of funny noises coming from the fuel tanks hissing (sounded like I popped a tyre) loud buzzing with a full tank of fuel, weird sucking noises also got video of these I will attempt to attach those also. With this evidence Seat reportedly replaced the fuel tank but it's still making the sucking noises and the hissing was intermittent anyway.
As you can see I have had a hard time of it my car ran out of warranty in July they have kindly extended it for the starting fault personally I think they had little choice but still nice of them to do so.
I will release the name of the garage eventually so others in my area can avoid it like the plague.
Adding link to audio as promised (Cannot put a proper link in can someone please reply with the full link just needs https : // infront of it:
soundcloud.com/user-788017429/sets/leon-184-starting-fuel-pump-issue
Sorry about the essay,
Luke
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