Seat Leon, any good?

[Southwell]

Test driving a 2007 2.0 tdi sylance with dsg tomorrow, are there any problems i should look out for?

It's full service history with 80k on the clock.

Thanks

[birdy]

Not really any problems to look out for when driving but if you can ask for any service / replacement parts history that would be helpful.

I had a 56 plate FR 2.0 Tdi from new, I had loads of problems around the 70K mark with the injectors breaking, the first was covered under warranty then the 2nd injector went with a +£1000 bill.

The Seat garage suggested that within the next 10K miles another injector would pop.

Apart from that it was a top car.

[sosidge]

We have an '07 Altea XL petrol - more or less the same car but with a larger body.

You can tell that SEAT cut corners on the trim and the final finish to get the cars down to a price, bits and pieces of the interior and exterior are prematurely worn or loosely fitted - but mechanically it has caused us no problems so far, albeit with only 20k on the clock.

Can't say it is an inspiring drive, but it gets from A to B.

Having it's first MOT tomorrow so hopefully I won't get any unpleasant surprises!

[MattW]

I had a 05 plate Leon FR 1.9 TDi, got rid of it when it got close to 90K, but it had given me no bother at all. Replaced it with a 57 Plate Leon FR 2.0 170. Currently all fine there, but it only has 22k on the clock.

There is talk that the 170 engine can suffer from DPF issues, which can be expensive. However, i think it is only the 170 that has the DPF on it, not sure which engine the stylance has in it.

[Southwell]

Thanks for the info so far, keep it coming.

It has the 140 engine Matt.

[Richard Lowe]

I'm not sure if it will apply to a Leon but the later R32's with DSG sometimes suffered with faulty mechatronics units which made the gearbox do random things - it wasn't a cheap fix either. I think it applied to the Golfs made between late 2007 and early 2008.

I don't know if the gearbox's on the two cars are the same (apart from ratio's/software of course) but you'd think they are pretty similar being based on the same VAG platform. When you drive one check it's not jerky going into one or two particular gears.