Car question - engine management warnings

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Did they look at it?? It may be the 'repair' had already been carried out and subsequently failed, or indeed the repair had been done by the previous owner under their own steam.

A quick search on Briskoda, per se , and you will see it was a very common fault with many dealers opting to fix all 4 doors even when only 1 was found to be leaking. It was also quite common for owners to opt for a self fix as an easier or less time consuming option.

If the car was bought from Hayselden second hand then I would certainly have been returning it as unfit for purpose, especialIy as dealers where only too aware of the fault,I am afraid that since VAG took over Skoda the dealership experience imho as deteriated considerably, yes you might get a plate glass showroom instead of a woodhut and a cappuccino rather than a mug of nescaf but service?

now that i can agree on. a certain East London skoda dealership has gone right down the tubes since being absorbed into VAG. was a slow decline until about 18 months ago when the service plummeted like a rock.
was told that we needed new gas struts on the hatch of a 10yr old octavia when it went in for its annual service. we declined and they are still holding the hatch up securely. makes me wonder what else they have told us needed doing that didn't.