leaking matrix leaking.

[gold7]

hi I'm a new member as you can see, i need some help with my vw golf year 05. its a 2 liter TDi. a couple of weeks ago i noticed my passenger side floor becoming wet and also my coolant water level getting low every day. so i booked it in at my local vw dealer for diagnostics.

after having the car for 3 days they called me back and advised me that the heater matrix needs replacing and that too do this job it will cost me 1200 GBP . (that includes changing the carpets in the whole car telling me it was contaminated.)

This sounds like too much money to me I'm not intereseted in changing the carpets i just want the car fixed.

can any one help me with how much the part should cost and the average labour cost at a local mechanics .

thanks

i've miss typed my thread title and can't edit it could a mod kindly edit it to be called vw heater matrix leaking . thanks

[peteo]

It was this problem that made me decide to get rid of my 1999 Bora TDI in 2007. By that time it had over 160,000 on the clock and was 8 years old. Even then I was told I had been incredibly unlucky to have a heater matrix go.

I was quoted just over £1,100 at a VW main dealer. They advised that the part itself was an insignificant part of the cost being no more that £120. It was the vast amount of labour involved, probably a day and a half. The job was also complicated by the air con. Everything has to come out, dashboard and all the associated electrics.

A local garage quoted me £800 to do the job. The car wasn't worth more than £2,000 odd so the repair seemed uneconomic.

Others will know more about this than me but wouldn't it be worth seeing if VW would at least make a goodwill payment of some sort? These simply shouldn't be failing on such a young car. I was told I was unlucky to have one go on a high mileage 8 year old car.