Meriva Steering?
Top marks to Vauxhall customer services. If I've read the story correctly, Vauxhall have paid £70 and £270 to diagnose a nine year old car that's been serviced outside their franchised network? That seems incredibly generous.
But the owner then asks should Vauxhall not contribute to the repair and should he take the matter to small claims! On a 9 year old car - of course not.
Furthermore the repair costs are £1800 parts and £1200 labour - total £3000. I wouldn't have thought a 2010 / 57k Meriva would be worth that much.
My advice would have been to trade his car and use the £3000 to buy a newer model.
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'German manufacturers have always preferred to concoct their own systems riddled with German logic that isn’t intuitive to English people' lol wat
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VAG had a Sat nav system that didn't accept 7-digit postcodes, for example.
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But the Scottish, Welsh and Irish should have no problems as it's only the English who don't understand?
I'm joking!!!
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6 digit postcode limits weren't unique to VAG, Mercedes used to be the same. MB did eventually update their SatNavs to accept 7 digit codes, that happened some time around 2011 or 12 I think.
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Re :Look who’s stalking
My car 'reads' speed signs, fairly accurately. But at a local junction (on a 30mph road) there are signs facing the cars saying 50mph, pertaining to the dual carriageway the junction crosses. So, right if I'm joining the trunk road, rather wrong if I'm cross it.
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Regarding Ford Kuga, I had limp mode , tree of lights , and immobiliser. Ford dealer fitted new battery at £250.00, not required. Drove 20 miles same problems again. Recovery vehicle diagnosed re soldering of instrument cluster , this service can be found online.
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Re look who’s stalking.
I have a top of the range TOM TOM sat nav in my car which is regularly updated. Despite this and sending updates to Tom Tom, it still shows the wrong speed limits on lots of roads. Locally there is one road that changes from a 30mph to unrestricted to 40mph and finally to 50mph in a 5 mile stretch.
The sat nav shows 60mph limit for the whole length as soon as you leave the 30mph zone.
Out of interest I recorded a drive along this road on my dash cam. Of the 7 speed limit signs, only 4 were visible due to the other 3 being covered by tree branches. There are several side roads/ entrances along this road and you could quite easily join it without knowing the correct speed limit.
So until the sat nav companies ensure their information is up to date and traffic signed are kept visible and clean, I can’t see the speed limiter system working.
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