Is it a coincidence or what? When I drove to work today, the brake gave way and suddently felt soft. Then I looked at the dashboard, the two lights, namely, ABS and TCS, went on.
When I arrived work, I checked my email and saw your message about the brakes!This is the second time this problem has occurred to me. Unlike you, having an understanding dealer, my dealer is not very helpful. It takes them ages to get parts and they always try to avoid giving me a courtesy car. Moreover, it seems that I always have to go there twice to get one problem solved, one trip for investigation and the other for repairing (and perhaps a third time to rectify things they didn't put right the second time)! Last time when it was serviced, they didn't even change the air-filter which was supposedly included in the price. They told me they cleaned it! Anyway enough about my dealer. Nowmy car.
It seems to me that the ABS/TCS problem is a common one, whether it is a design fault. I have had the car for about 7 months. During this time, the brakes have, as you know,failed twice, radiator once, air con once, one of the shock absorbers has failed and one number plate light bulb has had to be changed, wheel-alignment has been done twice.This car is not reliable (I am entitled to say this after all that) and considering the after-sale service I get, it really isn't worth the bother. The look of the car does nothingfor me and it drives like a lorry. As I said before, the only thing going for it is the specs and gadgets. Car of similar specs cost significantly more. By the way, I am not sure whether the mpg readings are instantanous or cummulative. It seems that it varies a lot but always at some fixed values such as 42, 47.6 etc, never in between.The steering wheel controls are there for cruise control and audio system. However have you not had to switch on the reading lights at night to see what buttons you are pressing? Why aren't these controls self-illuminated in a supposedly well-spec car? Besides, this car is not fitted with an intruder-alarm. Someone broke one of my front windows and it never made a noise. And have you been able to auto-close windows when you are outside of the car using the remote control?
Next Monday I (I mean my boss - wife, she has already told me off for having to do this for me) shall take it to the garage. I wonder whatthe dealerare going to tell me this time.