Hi paul dealers have been quite good really and maybe feel slightly guilty, no aftermarket part available can have use of courtesy car for as long as....I assume this was a low volume seller especially as a 1.4... obviously other issues come into play as regards decreasing value etc, no genuine part anywhere in europe and seeing as it is manufactured in south america and no edm available the rest of the world either , thats why I wondered what the manufacturers obligations were, fair enough if a vehicle is many years old but I believe this model was discontinued in 2010/11 superceded by the UP so its hardly a dinosaur (maybe soon to become one though)

yes this is the route we are currently pursuing to get the car back on the road if vw are in agreement regarding warranty issues etc

yes to both bought from main dealer as ex demo roughly 6 months old

catalytic convertor

Edited by farmerfrank on 21/03/2012 at 14:11

Wouldn't dream of buying an exhaust from a car manufacturer - far too expensive. Never bought a cat, but I suspect the same applies.

A google search on 'catalytic converter vw fox' suggests the aftermarket has plenty of them.

if you took the time to read the previous posts it would save you from posting useless drivel

Memo to self - don't try and help farmerfrank, cos he's an ungrateful (insert insult of own choice).

Sliding pillar, no offence was meant but there are so many occasions where posters reply without reading fully the situation and as I see from your last post you relented somewhat now you realize the warranty situation, we had already tried to source an aftermarket part , you can ring any number you find on google and more and ill guarantee you not one will have a cat for that fox, the engine is specific to that model alone, the upshot is that VW uk and VW France whilst sympathetic say thst technically the car is off the road until a cat can be supplied once they find a factory in south america to start manufacturing them again ,

Bear in mind that the owner of this vehicle, my father, is in his eighties and specifically in later years bought main dealer cars for reliability and service to escape precisely the type of situation that has arisen here

a courtesy car could have been supplied in France however couldnt have been driven due to my father being unable to get insurance in France to drive it

if the car was recovered to the supplying dealer in the uk they would supply a courtesy car however it couldnt be taken to France, and Vw wont recover the car to the uk, French dealer wont release it to drive it back as they say it could be dangerous AA wont recover it as technically it hasnt broken down

Today ive finally got the French dealer to reluctantly agree to fit a second hand part that has finally become available providing we sign a disclaimer so hopefully the saga will soon be over

still doesnt answer what the manufacturers liabilities are though regarding parts supply for production cars, the Eurocrats yet again making sure we spend millions on the minutiae and miss the glaringly obvoius