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Edited 22 May, 20233 yr by lemon2007

Not any useful ideas other than that is a very noisy shifter and one that likely has already had a repair of the common fault.

Maybe the replacement under warranty or the cheaper reapair.

 

So the Warranty History is important.    What repairs / fault fixing have you had already with the car?

 

http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/505730-weird-error-message-only-leave-vehicle-in-position-p

 

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Edited 22 May, 20233 yr by lemon2007

As far as Customer Services do you mean this shower?

You need to get beyond the contractor to Skoda / VW Employees, The Executive team'.

 

 

Edited 19 May, 20233 yr by toot

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Edited 22 May, 20233 yr by lemon2007

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Edited 22 May, 20233 yr by lemon2007

You should be rejecting it. 

But that was within 30 days. You are at 29. 

 

http://autoexpress.co.uk/car-news/105951/your-rights-when-buying-a-used-car

 

 

 

Edited 19 May, 20233 yr by toot

One thing that never helps is if the car battery is too low for the computer programs, doesn't matter if the exterior lights seem bright and the engine starts battery could still be too low.  However, there was a graunch I think at the very start of the video was that anything to do with starting the engine. Couldn't tell as the music was on, and the air-con blower on, are you a heavy battery electric consumer.

 

Even if not causing the faults low battery might be contributing to the mayhem.

 

If you have a scan tool suitable to VW cars then you could see what codes might be on the car and perhaps live data.

 

Take a reading of the car battery at it's posts with a multimeter, about a couple hours or more after it's been parked up, if you get about below 12.1V (allowing 0.2V below 12.3V as being used by woken/not asleep stuff) then consider driving the car with minimal electric battery consumption or better still top up the battery charge with an appropriate battery charger and maintainer.  Fully recharged would be best not using a quick charger so it will take many hours but can be done in stages if needed.

 

Before taking a reading you could check that the battery terminal post clamps are tight and that the earth lead to body is tight and per haps put up a landscape photo of the battery, and its fittings, to see if the battery has been swapped and a good one fitted.

 

Battery is relatively easy, quick and very low cost to check (and charge up) so worth getting out of the way.

  

Edited 19 May, 20233 yr by nta16

For reference a new battery fully charged can be anything from 12.7V to 12.9V, Skoda like you to keep above 12.3V.

 

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Edited 22 May, 20233 yr by lemon2007

The noise at the start was just before the starter motor but I couldn't say what it was, on listening again it sounds different to first time I listened and Tony Hadley was distracting me after (I'm of that age),

 

If you don't get a good amount of charge into the battery when it's low you can have it going over and under the threshold with use so it's just enough and then not enough.  Driving the car the alternator will be helping the battery so any reading taken then could be higher than after the car has been parked up for a few hours so a better test is to try starting the engine then and see if it's fine.

 

Even if you had a fully charged brand new battery you might still have fault(s) with that shifter and you'd said the engine sounds very throaty so there might be a fault or faults there all may be easily solvable but if the Dealership, if required, isn't sorting them that's no god to you.  I think you're going to have to get a bit more forceful with them and press your rights as a buyer.  If you're in a a motoring organisation you could perhaps ask them, or if you have the car through finance contact them, the Dealerships make their profit from finance they have to keep on the straight and narrow with finance now.

 

You may have a very good car but if not you want to return it, get shot or get it fully sorted ASAP as you don't want to put good money after bad.  I can tell you from expensive personal experiences that you want to cut any losses a lot sooner than later.