Any ROVER Owners with invalid warranty?

[Shambles]

I bought my new MG ZR from Pendragon (Bolton, Burnden Rover) last December.

With the collapse of MG Rover I wrote to Pendragon (Nottingham h/o) on 1st May stating they have a statutory obligation to honour the initial 12-month warranty despite whatever was happening with the administrators at Rover MG. I was pushing my luck in a way.

I know the additional 2 years "dealership" warranty following the inital 12 months manufacturers guarantee is open to debate so I avoided any mention of that.

Now, in tonights mail, I have a letter from Pendragon saying they've reviewed my position and will honour the initial 12 month warranty. Free parts and labor (sic) upto the anniversary of the car's registration!

Wahoo!

This is just a heads-up for any other members in this situation.

You do have a right and they know it.

The letter also included an offer to extend the initial 12 months to 36 months by buying a platinum cover, at subsidised rates.

The moral?

Ask - nay insist - and you may be rewarded.

[stu99]

I don't own a Rover but the warranty issue is something that I have been pondering over.

I believe that if you bought a car, in good faith, from a franchised dealer then you might be in a position to get the whole warranty covered by them. After all, this was factored into your purchase price.

[stevie2001]

Hi Shambles

I do have a rover but its old so the warranty doesn`t apply to me but in addition to your post if anyones having problems or being fobbed off with Bullsh*t have a look here, its a DTI fact sheet!


http://www.dti.gov.uk/ccp/topics1/facts/mgrover.htm

Hope this helps.

Steve

[Shambles]

Thanks for that Stevie2001.. it reinforces what I got and adds a little to my standpoint. Karma'd.

[lin]

Just saw this on The Times website

Former Ford boss flies in for MG Rover revival talks
By Christine Buckley, Industrial Editor



PLANS by a former Ford boss to revive manufacturing at MG Rover will move a step closer this week when he arrives in Britain to see the collapsed carmaker’s administrators and bankers.
Martin Leach, the former chief of Ford in Europe and a former head of Maserati, flew back from Shanghai at the weekend and is expecting the arrival of Chen Hong, president of Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), the Chinese car group that ditched a joint-venture deal with MG Rover.



It is hoped that under the plan, which was disclosed in The Times last week, Longbridge would become SAIC’s global research, development and engineering centre and would manufacture some of the new models developed there.

Mr Leach and Ed Sabisky, a former finance director of Vauxhall, have been in Shanghai to meet Mr Chen. All three are expected to come to Britain to announce an outline agreement.

MG Rover’s joint-venture talks with SAIC broke down over solvency issues, but SAIC is also understood to have felt badly misled by the British company’s directors.

The new plan for MG Rover is being backed by Tony Woodley, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, who played a key role in the rescue of Rover five years ago. Today at the union’s annual conference in Blackpool he is expected to press the Chancellor to offer assistance for the deal. Mr Woodley said that the bid “would be the equivalent of Nissan, Toyota or Honda coming to our country three decades ago ”.

Mr Woodley may press the Chancellor to take an equity stake in a new venture at Longbridge as part of a campaign to make the Government more active in backing manufacturing.

Mr Woodley, who has also held meetings with Mr Chen, said that there was “more than a slim chance of it happening”. The plan, which the administrator is aware of, would revive MG Rover as a going concern. Mr Woodley said that he was reminding PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the administrator, that it had a legal obligation to keep the company going if possible.

PwC is believed to have identified Nanjing Automobile Corporation as preferred bidder for all the MG Rover assets. The rival Chinese company, which is thought to have offered £40 million to £50 million, would be expected to shift much of the production equipment to China.

David James, the corporate troubleshooter, has been increasing pressure for a bid that he has joined to be seriously considered by PwC. He also made overtures to SAIC about a joint bid but the prospect of further talks has now faded. The bid by Nanjing is being backed by Nick Stephenson, one of the four directors of PVH, Rover’s parent company, who have been criticised over the pay and benefits that they took from the loss-making company.

[BLUTO141]

Hi mate
bellylea has a rover, and has just been informed by the dealership that they will honour his 3 year warranty, if you want/need more info i will get him to post in here or pm you
G

[urbsy]

I've located the only passenger side wing for an Over 75 in Somerset and the dealer won't post it out

Apparently there is talk between Caterpillar and the Over people about buying the press to make the panels from them.

Until its set in stone, Don't bump your motors, theres a parts drought on fast moving stuff big time.

urbsy

[bellylea]

Hi mate
bellylea has a rover, and has just been informed by the dealership that they will honour his 3 year warranty, if you want/need more info i will get him to post in here or pm you
G

As Bluto say, my main dealer has sent me a letter saying that they would honour the rest of my warranty (Another 2 years) as long as I sent back a reply to them. This I did and now have the full warranty now. Maybe worth giving your main dealer a call and see if they will do the same.

Stay lucky

[Shambles]

As Bluto say, my main dealer has sent me a letter saying that they would honour the rest of my warranty (Another 2 years) as long as I sent back a reply to them. This I did and now have the full warranty now. Maybe worth giving your main dealer a call and see if they will do the same.

Stay lucky

Thanks. My dealer has already given me a goodwill warranty upto the end of the first year. After that if I need to I'll threaten them again. Worked last month

[Clarkey110]

if you have bought from a dealer most should honour it. Just out of a gesture of good will. The problem is if you bought from any of the Phoenix group dealerships that are actually Rover cos they should have gone bust with Rover.

Ive talked to a couple of guys i now selling Rover and they said the dealership will honour the warrentys.