Major indicator issue........

[Two mark 5's]

Hello all. I'd just like to say the reason I just joined this forum was not really for advice but to share this unusual experience. Although I've got a lot of engineering history I'm not really a "car person" Anyway....Up until around a decade ago I had never owned or driven a Seat. The company I worked and still work for decided to switch from Citroen to Seat (I've just realised my 2 mark 5's handle should be mark 6's ) that's what I know about cars. I'll try and keep this brief......I spoke to a chap in my main dealer today when dropping car off for this issue and he's been there for years and said he's never come across it before. History....Around 8 years ago got my Ibiza "normal" works car. 70k miles down the road, faultless and loved it Changed to an FR after 3 years of which I had that one for 3 years....90k miles and the same, faultless and obviously a lot quicker and better with the turbo. 2024 loved the car so much I bought my 1st ever new car (2024 seat Ibiza FR sport) still got it and love it to bits. My 3rd works Ibiza is currently a 73 plate "excellence" which is around 2.5 years old and 76k. Over the last 4 months, front right indicator "not rear" stopped working? And a week ago, the front left did the same? But all rears still working? Staff in the dealership I'm sure reading this will know who I am and as said they have never had this before. Fix per side £1300 Obviously I'm not paying but a slight difference from £2.50 for a bulb in 1988 in a Ford Granada

 

[James_R]

I take it the LED unit in the headlight stopped working? I'm pretty sure they're available separately from the main headlight and cost less than £1300, unless they've burnt out and damaged the headlight unit.

 

[RUM4MO]

Oooh, so much for modern light clusters.

I bought, or rather bought and personally imported a factory order VW Passat 4Motion, for some reason I kept using the local VW dealership for MOTs mainly as this was not the normal model, and they were just along the road from where I worked at the time.

Second MOT produced a failed front headlight assembly, I had specified HID (dipped beams) as factory options were relatively "cheap as chips" when dealing with Dutch dealers. What happened was, the garage felt the need to adjust the aim of one headlight, the aim adjustment is made via system of plastic bevel wheels moulded onto cheaply plated steel rods, as these rods had not been used since initial assembly, it seems like there was a bit of resistance to everything moving, so the technical expert doing the adjustment probably just gave that sticky adjuster a "lot of welly" - result was that the bevel wheel escaped from its grip onto the cheaply plated and now rusting steel rod! So, there was a big bill, mainly for labour as the HID headlight assembly arrives as an empty shell and everything inside needed moving over - nice!

Edit:- whoops, written yesterday but I failed to post it!!