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All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: sixpot on July 21, 2011, 04:16:29 pm

Title: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: sixpot on July 21, 2011, 04:16:29 pm: Some cheeky bugger has gone and used my reg/ car details to claim their 4 new coilpacks under the 28F5 recall!
Booked my car in for a service and enquired about the recall, and was told it had already been done, and by a dealer in Derby, which is miles from where I live. On further investigation they had even put the mileage down as 71000, my car has only done 56000!
VW UK are now involved in getting the situation sorted out, and hopefully I should have mine replaced. :happy2:
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: Weston on July 21, 2011, 04:19:03 pm: Oh they were yours! Cheers :booty:

Only joking. That's a real p1ss take! Hope it gets sorted
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: bacillus on July 21, 2011, 04:44:42 pm: Strange! I thought that the car had to be booked and taken into the dealer for new coil packs to be issued.
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: edd666999 on July 21, 2011, 04:51:58 pm: Vw preston and vw wrexham wouldn't just give me the coilpacks they both said they have to fit!
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: Wardy on July 21, 2011, 05:17:53 pm: How bizarre! You'd have thought they'd have done a VIN plate check, as a minimum.

I thought the same as well, that as part of the recall the revised ones were being *fitted* by a main dealer, not just given to the customer? I'd have thought most of the folks walking in the door wouldn't know one end of a coilpack from another, let alone how to swap them?
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: Tfsi_Mike on July 21, 2011, 05:20:18 pm: Thats well cheeky!

Out of curiosity whats was the revision? Im guessing because if had coilpacks in last 12 months they will automatically be revised ones?
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: sixpot on July 21, 2011, 07:00:14 pm: They are the original 07k 905 715 coilpacks Mike. (date stamped week 23 2005) as you know the latest ones are rev F.
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: gti_jim on July 21, 2011, 09:29:51 pm: Quote from: sixpot on July 21, 2011, 04:16:29 pm
Some cheeky bugger has gone and used my reg/ car details to claim their 4 new coilpacks under the 28F5 recall!
Booked my car in for a service and enquired about the recall, and was told it had already been done, and by a dealer in Derby, which is miles from where I live. On further investigation they had even put the mileage down as 71000, my car has only done 56000!
VW UK are now involved in getting the situation sorted out, and hopefully I should have mine replaced. :happy2:

Couldn't be someone cloning your vehicle could it? If so - The con might have sold the clone to some mug who has gone into VW for the recall.
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: sixpot on July 22, 2011, 06:22:22 am: It was done on the original reg number, not my private plate, so I doubt it's been cloned.
Title: Re: Coilpack theft!!
Post by: 56OctyVRS on July 22, 2011, 09:53:06 am: I would contact the DVLA as they may have re registered your reg plate by mistake to another vehicle.