DD20 car serious safety recall - left with no car?

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DD20 lives at home and drives a car to work that’s had a stop drive notice put on it urgently. You need to get a slot with a dealer to carry out the recall but some people are having to wait months for the repair. We couldn’t get through to anyone yesterday by phone so I will try again today. She won’t be insured to drive the car as it’s unsafe

DD is too young to hire a car as you need to be 21. I think the manufacturer will maybe give some compensation if there is a long wait, but we don’t know this for sure. They are NOT giving courtesy cars.

I am not sure what to do.

DD’s job is shifts, 10 miles away so I’m having to take and collect her as no direct public transport at all. I also have a FT job in the opposite direction! I’m already exhausted

She can’t work from home or change her shift times

Public transport doesn’t run at her shift times and isn’t direct (would involve 2 hours of changing/waiting)

She could get taxis but this will be very expensive there and back and not sure if she will be able to claim any costs back.

Insure her on my car at our cost and then I hire a car?

Ask my job to WFH so I can lend her my car?

WWYD? I am frazzled by this

I never suggested you did. You sound very grumpy.

I don’t know if you noticed but I said in my OP I felt stressed. Glad I had you around to help add to that continually by making annoying suggestions.

This is such a shit situation for you both, OP. DD has presumably worked hard to pass her driving test and buy a car SO THAT she can get to the job she presumably applied for KNOWING she had a car to use. It's not like she's messed up and lost the car through her own fault (drink driving for example) she's in a situation not of her own making. She is lucky she has a mum who will do what she can to try to help.

Enterprise car club takes people from the age of 19.
I have cars dotted about all over the UK.
It’s like short-term rental

Could she possibly stay with a colleague for a few nights each week (lets assume, M-F working days)?

Edit: so her collegue could drive into work and they thus could car-share.

You could drop her off Mon morning, and pick her up Fri afternoon. She could give her £22 per day to her colleague (£110 possibly) for the inconvenience of hosting.

Might be a solution for a few weeks perhaps until garage can fit you in.

Just a thought....

Well at least I’m not the person who suggested she should carry on driving it. I don’t think my suggestions are unreasonable in the circumstances. What about the car club solution as suggested above?

I love going out on my bike, but I wouldn’t be going out on it at 5am or 11pm because it’s dangerous. I also wouldn’t have the energy at 5am to hop on a bike and cycle to work, and I would need to set off earlier because I would sweat buckets on the 10 mile cycle so would need a wash when I arrive and to then make myself presentable. I already own a bike, but if I didn’t I couldn’t afford one at this point anyway with no notice.

I don’t know why you are attracting idiots on this thread OP. Cars exist for a reason, if your daughter didn’t need hers then you wouldn’t have started the thread, people don’t seem to be grasping that because they can manage without a car it doesn’t mean that others can.

I have a friend who uses her car for work, she probably drives 60 miles a shift going to patients houses, the bus stop at the end of her road isn’t that beneficial.

Is this definitely the case, when our 2nd car broke down hours from home and the rac couldn’t recover it my 20 year old son was given a courtesy car by the rac as they didn’t have enough drivers to recover the vehicle immediately.

One problem is the supply of the air bags, they are not in stock and in short supply and that's the same problem even if you got to a non-dealership and pay full price, which will be expensive.

Edit: The recall is free at a dealership.

Citron are looking to see if it can be an at home fix or. Other garage but as yet nothing is posisble

which recommend keeping all receipts but as yet no recompense has been promised and i guess iy may take decades

keeps editing to add
there won’t be enough hire cars and spares around to give everyone affected one til the problem is sorted

Yes I accept I might be wrong about a courtesy car age limit but nevertheless, there are none on offer as too many people needing them.

I have looked at enterprise its asking us to sign up with £10 now but isn’t really explaining what you get for this cost? I need to look into it in more detail

You asked for advice and are telling people to fuck off when they give it? Delightful

I didn’t ask for any advice on cross country biking. Thanks

I also asked politely more than once for people to stop making snarky comments about bikes before I said fuck off

Can it be fixed elsewhere and the bill sent to citreon?

Talk to the dealer about you vetting a hire car and them payong and giving dc your car

To fix it they would need to have the parts, and the parts are in short supply because there are many thousands of cars worldwide that are affected by the same recall.

I am of the firm opinion that anyone getting on a bike and riding it on the roads nowadays is a psychopath. No way would I want my daughter (at 12, 20 or 40) riding a bike in modern road conditions - rush hour or not. Not to mention the other safety aspects of a young female being out on her own at 5am or 11pm.

The OP has advised what her family are doing in the meantime. The small mercy is this recall has happened before a crash, however inconvenient it is. Over 1,000 people died in road crashes in the UK last year and every death in road crashes is one too many.

I had major problems wih Citroen 16 years ago, with a brand new C5 Picasso which kept completely losing power. Also had problems with the automatic gearbox and a couple of other issues. In the end the lease company took it back because it appeared Citroen couldn’t fix it.
Also had issues with a couple of Renault cars too.

We have this issue too and have today been issued with a " do not drive " order ! Ds has the car, so now frantically trying to get in touch with him. he works all hours and will find it difficult to book it in.

The do not drive order has invalidated my insurance so I couldn’t drive it to be repaired even if I ever got an appointment.
RAC are helping out. citroenrecall.rac.co.uk

In defence if the op and to those who say get a bike/walk - not everyone lives in a place which is suitable/safe to walk or cycle!! where I live you're a bit stuffed without a car as I spend an awful lot of time out in the countryside. I do live on the edge of a town but it's 1.5 miles to the nearest supermarket (plus who wants to be lugging heavy stuff they've bought back home on foot?), my work is a mile in the opposite direction to that. Plus I live at the top of a massive hill so if anyone thinks I could conduct my very busy life without having a car I'd invite them to come and try it for me! There is NO WAY that i'd consider riding a bike on the roads round here - crap roads, hills hills hills, blind bends, big lorries, no no no!!!

Please don’t take the advice to get an e-bike. The safety statistics that are coming out on them are alarming.

I wonder how many of the people here suggesting she walk / bike would dream of ever doing that themselves? Very few would be my guess.

OP this is awful. Nothing helpful to suggest but I hope you can get sorted.

Is that Legit? It’s just an MS office form. I can’t find it on the RAC website. I don’t advise anyone filling this out….