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Sammy G

1 reviews | Active since Apr 2012

03 Nov 2017, 15:21

Disappointment with vehicle bought from Autoworld Goodwood

Furthermore to my initial complaint against Autoworld Goodwood, the following has happened:

Yesterday morning, 02 October 2017, my fiance and I were travelling along the R27 (Otto Du Plessis Drive) on our way to work when all of a sudden a number of warning lights flashed on on our car's dashboard, including the Engine Oil, Battery, Engine Coolant Temperature and the Service Engine Soon warning lights. The lights all went off as quickly as they had come on, so we carried on travelling along the R27.

A couple of kilometer's later, the same warning lights flashed on again and the car's engine switched off completely. We were travelling between 40km/h and 50km/h when this happened. As there was no side shoulder along the road, I switched the car back on and carried on driving, heading in the direction of the next closest petrol station. En route to the petrol station, our car proceeded to switch off another 4 times.

I turned off the R27 into Loxton Road in Milnerton, travelled about 100m up Loxton Road towards Koeberg Road and the car switched off for the 5th time. This time it would not restart, so my fiance had to push the car to the nearest side shoulder which was on Koeberg Road where all of the taxi's usually drop off and pick people up (opposite Shoprite). This is where we left the car and proceeded to walk to our place of work which is situated on Koeberg Road just before Boundary Road. The time at this stage was 07:40am.

I phoned Autoworld to notify them of what had happened and they brought me a courtesy car (again the Ford Figo which I have previously used). They loaded my car onto their tow truck and it is now sitting at Autoworld Goodwood while they assess what went wrong with it. My fiance recorded video footage on his cellphone of the warning lights coming on and of the car switching off in traffic.

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