zafira are worst than fiat,s too many problems with them that's why there so cheap i will give you about 3 to 4 years then it will be ready for the scrappy

im sure there was something about this on watchdog last year , that there is a fault with zafira's and there steering. i will try and find it but while writing this i have it in the back of my head that it might be a smaller car but will try to find it out.
im glad in a way that it wasnt what happened to the meriva's in the link below and that it was the rack after all, and yes they should supply you with a replacement car while yours is being fixed, if they dont then that is a very poor service from vaxhaull indeed. if it were me i would demand a car while yours is being fixed and if not then i would ask to speak to the manager of the place and kick up a good stink about it.


found it but it was the marevia and not the zafria so it does not sound like the same problem. im not trying to scare you but heres the link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/...ll_meriva.html so like i say it isnt to do with the zafira and it doesnt sound like the same
fault as your having.

cheers steve found the isses with meriva when started googling, tbh there will be recalls and issues with most cars even the usually sound jap cars, (last year twice?)

problem now fixed and its fine again... and got a free service when its due later in the year out of it.. so not really too bad at the end of the day.

yeh i know what you mean there Colin about most cars. we had a kia last year and that had to go back as it was blowing blue smoke on start up and sounding like a bag of spanners when started from cold, i know we had a diesel but even so you dont expect new cars to play up like that. i done some detective work on the net and found that there were 5 cars with the same problem in our dealers alone and it didn't stop there.
to cut a long story short, it was a motabilty car and i spoke to there head tech and he agreed with me that new cars should do this sort of thing ( even vids on it on a vid site). was told to get another car but do not go back to the same dealer as they had treated us very badly, i was ordered to have the courtesy car back ( even though they didn't fix our car)at the agreed time but had to ring them up to say i couldn't do it by 5pm that night but i could get it in as soon as they open the next morning ( wife was in hospital and was diagnosed with terminal cancer), so as you can imagine i was a little irate when i went in there to speak to the person about it and spoke to someone else there as i was likely to blow a fuse at the time due to the stress.
some of these garages are a law unto themselves and it gets my back up, especially when they know there in the wrong and dont even fix your car in the first place.

oooooo sorry for the rant.

Originally Posted by steve69

yeh i know what you mean there Colin about most cars. we had a kia last year and that had to go back as it was blowing blue smoke on start up and sounding like a bag of spanners when started from cold, i know we had a diesel but even so you dont expect new cars to play up like that. i done some detective work on the net and found that there were 5 cars with the same problem in our dealers alone and it didn't stop there.
to cut a long story short, it was a motabilty car and i spoke to there head tech and he agreed with me that new cars should do this sort of thing ( even vids on it on a vid site). was told to get another car but do not go back to the same dealer as they had treated us very badly, i was ordered to have the courtesy car back ( even though they didn't fix our car)at the agreed time but had to ring them up to say i couldn't do it by 5pm that night but i could get it in as soon as they open the next morning ( wife was in hospital and was diagnosed with terminal cancer), so as you can imagine i was a little irate when i went in there to speak to the person about it and spoke to someone else there as i was likely to blow a fuse at the time due to the stress.
some of these garages are a law unto themselves and it gets my back up, especially when they know there in the wrong and dont even fix your car in the first place.

oooooo sorry for the rant.

rant away mate get it of your chest, your right most garages treat us like shit.
sorry to hear about the wife mate

Originally Posted by surfbum

rant away mate get it of your chest, your right most garages treat us like shit.
sorry to hear about the wife mate

cheers mate.
yep its just the lies they give you that wind me up. i told the service chap at the desk i know this is a problem with this model, and to which he told me there wasnt, so i rolled off the names of the people who had there cars (all same model) in with them at the time i went in there. to which he still denied it.
o well we got rid of that now and we are very happy with the car we got now, but will never go to that franchise again though. plus word of mouth is a strong thing too.

cheers anyway and sorry to the op, didnt mean to hijack your thread, but glad you have got it sorted now though.