Hi. Wondered if anyone else has had experience of this. Bought low mileage Mazda 2 Sport, April 08 reg., from local branch of Bristol Street Motors, in August 2011. Nice car, no probs at all. Had it serviced last year by my local friendly garage. This year I was persuaded to try a 'fixed price' servicing deal at BS Motors. They told me that car had a 'faulty ABS Unit' and needed new one - total price £887 over and above the service!

They ended up keeping the car for nearly three weeks while they ordered in a new one, which also proved to be faulty, then another one, etc. etc. Paid up under protest in order to get the car back.

After taking legal advice decided to go through the Small Claims Court on grounds that it was 'not fair and reasonable' for such an important unit to fail in 25,000 miles/5 years. (See 1979 Sale of Goods Act, amended, sections 48a and 48b). About to get to formal stage with this.

Any other similar stories welcomed, also any opinions on how long these items should last. Informally, most people say 100,000m or 'life of the car'.

Cheers, Tim 189