Long story short. Bought a car last week of march. Paid for it and collected it 5 days later after he had put a "new" mot on it. It broke down second week of April. Clutch completely failed on way to drop three boys off at school. I rung dealer we bought it off who refused to arrange transportation of car to him, but said if we will he will fix it. He then had it in his "workshop" until the End of May, we finally managed to get a loan car off him for the last week. His Workshop replaced clutch, gearbox, turbo and injectors. oh and a nebattery (as the one that was on it kept going flat)
We got the car back and it intermittently kept cutting out. Md Dad whos a mechanic by trade told me to do a long journey to give the car a good run to see if its okay on long journeys, Drove to my mums 200 miles away, drove round all weekend, drove 200 miles home on Sunday and car cut out and refused to start up again just as we came off our junction on motorway. Alternator has died. I rung Dealer again, (only had car back a week or so) he said get the car to him, we pay for the part and he will pay for labour at his usual workshop. The quote he gave me for parts was about the same as I could get it repaired locally and have my car back the same day and given that they had our car for 6 weeks last time. I took it and spent just under £300 getting alternator done.
Car STILL kept cutting out so after some research (by us!) the suction control valve was replaced by a family friend who is also a mechanic (another £150!)
Car drove fine for a few weeks, then last week, smoke coming from engine, oil feeder pipes into turbo where both split. 4 days before we were due to travel to cornwall for much needed family holiday, again we just took it to local garage and forked out another £240 to get it fixed so we could still go away.
Drove 200+ miles to our holiday destination, used the car all week for days out ect.
Driving journey home yesterday we left caravan at 9am. 11am more smoke from engine, oil pissing out all over the place, the whole back of the car was thick with oil fluid. Called RAC, they took us to a local garage in Okehampton who did a Temporary repair to get us home, but they did say there was no way there was a new turbo on the car and there was a lot of movement in it which is why pipes kept breaking off. Carried on our journey, told not to use turbo, we didnt. Got to M4 toll booth about to pay and guy in booth starts shouting at us to get out the car, smoke everywhere. engine making a horrible loud noise, dragged three kids out of the car, was escorted to safety of toll plaza offices and fire brigade was called :( They moved the car to side of road and confirmed car wasnt actually on fire but was minutes away from it. Turbo blown. The car was revving on its own and we were very lucky it eventually died down (even with key out!) as it could have kept going and blew up!
Called RAC again who towed us all the way home. We are now in process of rejecting car and getting a refund. In the 3 months we have had the car we have spent just over £1000 on getting it fixed and hire cars (i live in middle of now where!) Bought the car for £1300. Any advice on how to proceed? The man who runs/owns dealership isnt very nice and basically saying its not his problem. Im now without a car again boys school is 20 mins away BY CAR, got to get husband to work, I have many childrens hospital appts this week (2 of my boys have sn!)