written by on 09/11/2010
I have the same fault mate and asked some advice at local seat garage they said fault was either wiring fault under battery tray or the dash combination
unit needs renewed thats costly, A temp solution is removig fuse 15 but clock doesnt work due to no constant live to unit.
written by zz000mm on 25/07/2010
This model of Leon, a Seat Leon 1.6S 2002 model year, has a fundamental gearbox problem that Seat and their dealers will glaze over.
A business partner bought the car from new. The car obviously came with it's first gearbox (1). After 3 years the gearbox failed and was replaced (2) by my business partner.
I bought the car for a second family car. We are husband and wife with 7 year old child. No teenagers.
Shortly after buying the car the gearbox failed. The fault punched a hole in the casing. A reconditioned gearbox was installed (3).
A couple of weeks after installation the gearbox failed again, luckily under warranty and was replaced (4).
This weekend, three quarters of a year later it appears to have gone again.
It's a nice car, practical, reasonable performance.
You should not buy it though if you are on a budget as gearboxes are expensive.
A work colleague has a Seat Altea and has never had problems with it. Get one of those instead. I wish I had.
written by B Bop on 05/01/2009
I've always had second hand cars but find myself constantly going to the garage to get them fixed, so 2 years ago I decided to buy a new car. After a lot of searching I chose the SEAT Leon. This was the BIGGEST mistake of my life. If it wasn't under warranty I would be in so much debt! I've had numerous courtesy cars.
My biggest complaint is the alarms. Within the first 6 months of purchasing the car I found the alarms would go off every 30 minutes. Whether I locked it with the button, the key or even if I didn't lock and just left the alarms just goes off. My car was in the garage for over a month while it got fixed.
2 years later and guess what? The alarms are doing the same thing again!
written by cazzam on 07/10/2004
The Seat Leon 1.6 S family cars faults are endless. Most of them relate to electrical faults like lights, indicators, horn, central locking, dash lights, stereo, electric windows etc., that have all been faulty at one point or another on my car. I'm amazed at how this car also has varying degrees of water purification i.e. it gets filtered through all the water tight seals directly into the car - I thought about setting up my own SEAT filtered water company. I thought the best one was the pollen filter needing re-sealed as this tends to fall off and let in water (SEAT DO KNOW ABOUT THIS FAULT) or the door seals constantly failing to keep out water (SEAT ALSO KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE). Or how about having to get the throttle cleaned out every six months because it clogs to the point that the car revs erratically. It also suffers from leaking water into the front lights (SEAT KNOW ABOUT THIS ONE AS WELL).
... P.S. Don't expect SEAT to sort any of this out for free - as you would expect of manufacturing faults!
written by John. on 07/08/2002
The Seat Leon has real quality problems, I had to return my car to the dealer 11 times in 10 months.
The doors leaked (took 3 attempts and is still not 100% ok) the front, rear and fog lights where full of water, boothlock broke, all kind of small electrical stuff broke, like indicators, dashboardlights and electrical seat adjustment, dust in the paintjob and rattles everywhere, clutch pedal had to be replaced.
Seat UK doesn't care, the dealer is stupid and Seat Spain is not interested.
Written on: 13/11/2002
I do not think the above review is a single case, I also had the same experience with a Seat Leon.
Try WWW.Carsurvey.com or look in the Forum of WWW.Seat-Leon.de and you will see that the Leon has problems, a lot of problems to be honest.
Written on: 11/11/2002
I think your car was a friday afternoon car to be honest mate. So why dont you take yorself back to your dealer and trade it in for a new one and just accept the fact that you were unlucky hey?
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32967_Frank.'s Response to 32226_John.'s Review
Written on: 13/08/2002
I agree, Seat customer service is run by the three famous monkeys, don't hear, don't see and don't speak and I believe there is a fourth monkey: DON'T CARE.
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