written by on 13/11/2010
This is a love hate relationship. Great big car and for the first 2 years, great to drive. However, as has been previoiusly mentioned, there is a fuel system (Turbo) probelm with these cars. Out of all the incidents, 2 stand out as scary. My wife, mother-in-law, father in-law, 3young kids and myself,were overtaking about 65 mph the car cut out!! The other incident was when we had white smoke then enough black smoke. The engine was racing and wouldnt switch off. We had the fire brigade our and blocked the motorway. We were terrified. Arnold Clark were disgusting towards us and simply washed there hands of us despite the fact that they knew we had reported our concerns before the car came out of warranty. Parks of Hamilton were the exact opposite and have been fair and even handed. This market should be even more regulated. I am a solicitor and I know that you would have to dedicate a chunck of your life to pursue these large companies. They abuse good customers like us. It would take some convincing for us to buy another one despite the design aspects we loved.