According to Hyundai's website, their warranty for taxi use is 100k miles. If you've done 118k in 2.5 years (you say the car is 18k out of warranty), then virtually any car will be largely worn out, and this is, after all, a 'budget' car. The fact that you've been able to do such a large mileage rather indicates that the car hasn't been hugely unreliable, as it has been used so much.

I think you'll be very lucky to get anywhere. Hyundai's warranty is generous compared to most, and the car has arguably done a decades worth of motoring in a quarter of that time.

Presumably they fixed the problems whilst it was still under warranty, its out now so basically thats it.

Does seem rapid wear, but might be reasonable to compare with how previous cars coped with your driving style...not criticising you here just interested, i notice the clutch seems to feature in your list of complaints, was the 1.7D man enough to cope with tickover revs pulling away or did it require a lump off throttle and some slipping every time.

To compare i know a PH operator who uses E Class (taxi spec) MB's he buys new, E220 Diesels, they are maintained very well by my own indy, and driven professionally, they usually get sold @ over 400k miles, sometimes still on the same clutch and usually with only regular servicing and friction materials...not suggesting you want to get into that budget but i notice the same chap is also running new shape Superbs (no DSG toytown gearboxes either), i've know him for years he doesn't suffer sub standard so the Skoda must be doing its job well.

As regards the finance, what would have happened had you replaced the car with another as pencilled in when you bought it, you would have found out the finance was not you expected whatever happened, or was there a handshake on sorting preferential terms if you'd replaced with another?

Edited by gordonbennet on 24/10/2014 at 16:27