Engine mount / gear box mount warrenty

waveydave79 · 11 Jan 2014 at 16:50

driving in town today and I throught my backbox had gone to start with. In 2nd gear under acceleration I would hear something banging. We pulled over, and my partner got an AA man, we spotted the engine or a gearbox mount has failed. He was littlerally able to rock the engine back and forth a few inches.

Car is a fait panda 2011 model, which is thankfully still under warrenty. Its just done shy of 40K.

I have no idea how this has happened and wouldn't expect this of a 2 year old car.

Hopefully garage aren't going to try to say its something else or squirm out of paying for it under the warrenty

I am I covered?

malfunkshun · 11 Jan 2014 at 16:53

Unless there is evidence that you have hit the bottom of the car on something I can't see how they can......unfortunately that doesn't mean that they might not try. Should be OK imo, but be prepared not to be given the run around.

PMKeates · 11 Jan 2014 at 16:54

Engine and/or gearbox mounts on a <3 year old <40k mile car is a warranty claim for sure.

waveydave79 · 11 Jan 2014 at 17:01

malfunkshun said:
Unless there is evidence that you have hit the bottom of the car on something I can't see how they can......unfortunately that doesn't mean that they might not try. Should be OK imo, but be prepared not to be given the run around.

Not recently. 1 year ago, I did hit have a small mishap - a small badger or animal went into the lower part of the bumper, but this was repaired properly through an approved garage and has been fine ever since. Hopefully the time that's lapsed between this would prove this hasn't cuased the problem, or and its a different area of the car.

PMKeates · 11 Jan 2014 at 17:01

There is no way hitting a badger a year ago could have caused your engine mounts to suddenly wear to nothing - you're safe!

waveydave79 · 11 Jan 2014 at 17:10

PMKeates said:
There is no way hitting a badger a year ago could have caused your engine mounts to suddenly wear to nothing - you're safe!

Thanks sets my mind at ease. The car is literally sat outside the main dealers now, so we will see what they say!

jono_astra · 11 Jan 2014 at 17:32

pepsilol · 11 Jan 2014 at 19:33

Bet the part is something daft like £20 and takes 15 mins to fit

PMKeates · 11 Jan 2014 at 19:47

jono_astra said:
the only real thing they could try and get out of it is that its under "wear and tear".

but even if it was then i doubt it would cost a lot for the mount.

There's no way anyone should take an engine/gearbox mount on a little Fiat failing after <3 years and <40k miles as acceptable 'wear and tear'. Double that lifetime, at least, is what one could reasonably expect!

pepsilol · 11 Jan 2014 at 19:59

PMKeates said:
There's no way anyone should take an engine/gearbox mount on a little Fiat failing after <3 years and <40k miles as acceptable 'wear and tear'. Double that lifetime, at least, is what one could reasonably expect!

Owners could have been dropping the clutch in first gear and doing burn outs!

MrMoonX · 11 Jan 2014 at 20:11

pepsilol said:
Owners could have been dropping the clutch in first gear and doing burn outs!

In a panda :confused:

lol

pepsilol · 11 Jan 2014 at 21:29

You think no one has driven like a dick in a panda?

Oh naive padwan.

Will · 11 Jan 2014 at 21:58

I can remember doing handbrake turns, big slides and almost doing donuts in my mums Fiat Panda in a snowy car park some years back

PMKeates · 11 Jan 2014 at 22:05

pepsilol said:
Owners could have been dropping the clutch in first gear and doing burn outs!

I think I'd still hope for more than the OP has got

Btw, OP - are you the same as daveywavey?

waveydave79 · 11 Jan 2014 at 22:56

PMKeates said:
I think I'd still hope for more than the OP has got

Btw, OP - are you the same as daveywavey?

Nope only gone by this name.

Iamzod · 12 Jan 2014 at 09:32

I wouldn't bother with warranty, when my Mondeo one went I got one online for well under £20 and it took about 10 minutes to swap over.

waveydave79 · 13 Jan 2014 at 12:39

Update. Garage ran me today and its much worse. The knuckle joint that is welded to the subframe is bent. They are basically saying the car has been hit my something underneath. As I previously said the car had an in accident when we went over a badger which is the only thing to springs to mind. Garage have quoted me £1000 to get this put right. At this point we are contatcting insurance company to see if it can by covered part of previous claim. The. Joint is on the same side as the damage before. Will have to see what they say.

Biohazard · 13 Jan 2014 at 17:42

That must have been one ripped badger like.

Was it in a field, or on a wall or anything when you hit it?

Dureth · 13 Jan 2014 at 17:52

Seriously, there is no way on earth a badger could have caused the joint of the engine mount to fail like that. If you had hit a person I doubt you could have done that sort of damage!

To do that sort of damage you would need to hit a large rock, kerb, wall or piece of metallic debris on the road. Maybe you went rallying in it and forgot?

waveydave79 · 13 Jan 2014 at 18:07

Dureth said:
Seriously, there is no way on earth a badger could have caused the joint of the engine mount to fail like that. If you had hit a person I doubt you could have done that sort of damage!

To do that sort of damage you would need to hit a large rock, kerb, wall or piece of metallic debris on the road. Maybe you went rallying in it and forgot?

Here is a picture of the damage. Its gone inwards and bent a huge chunk of the metal at the top. I have no idea how its happened! me and my partner never mount kerbs, sometimes sleeping policeman catch on bumpers.

Question is? If I had have hit something - It would have had to have with a hell of a bang to bend the metal in this fashion, surely I would have known about it.

The badger hit on the M1 late at night, and we were doing about 70 MPH, it literally got sucked in and felt like a very bad speed bump