Nugget
12-10-2004, 08:46
Hopefully just a quick one, but I was curious as to what people thought.
As my little friend homealone will tell you, before I changed the car in May this year, I had an S reg Fiat Seicento (1999). Now, anything that could go wrong with the car pretty much did, but the worse was when the petrol tank developed what can only be described as a flood (as opposed to a leak).
As a result, the car had to travel back from Birmingham to Grimsby on the back of a lorry (thank God for breakdown insurance!) and it cost me 200 quid to get a new tank fitted †“ therefore, £200 down and my breakdown premium went up.
Yesterday, I received through the post a product recall notification from Fiat advising that they wanted everybody with an early model Seicento to take it to their nearest Fiat dealer as they had identified that there was a risk that the petrol tank could corrode. What I want to know is, even though Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve changed the car, does anybody think that I have a fair case for some form of compensation from Fiat, seeing as Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m effectively over 200 quid out of pocket (surprisingly, Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve even kept the receipt from the garage who did the work).
TIA :tu:
As my little friend homealone will tell you, before I changed the car in May this year, I had an S reg Fiat Seicento (1999). Now, anything that could go wrong with the car pretty much did, but the worse was when the petrol tank developed what can only be described as a flood (as opposed to a leak).
As a result, the car had to travel back from Birmingham to Grimsby on the back of a lorry (thank God for breakdown insurance!) and it cost me 200 quid to get a new tank fitted †“ therefore, £200 down and my breakdown premium went up.
Yesterday, I received through the post a product recall notification from Fiat advising that they wanted everybody with an early model Seicento to take it to their nearest Fiat dealer as they had identified that there was a risk that the petrol tank could corrode. What I want to know is, even though Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve changed the car, does anybody think that I have a fair case for some form of compensation from Fiat, seeing as Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢m effectively over 200 quid out of pocket (surprisingly, Iâ₠¬ÃƒÆ’¢â€žÂ¢ve even kept the receipt from the garage who did the work).
TIA :tu: