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Alfa Giulietta issue with door handles
I have a 4 year old Guilietta first registered May 2014 I bought her May 2015. The drivers side handle snapped about 6 weeks ago and I waited until the annual service thinking I’d get it fixed then, only to be told a new door card was needed and it would cost £300 plus labour. I couldn’t believe it. I put a post on here to look for help to fix it if I bought a door card on eBay £80 ish. It was then I discovered this is a much bigger problem. Whilst I was looking into it further blow me down two weeks ago my friend tried to open the passenger door to get out and the passenger door one broke! So right now if anything happened and I needed to get out my car quickly I couldn’t it’s a critical safety risk. But now I’m facing a £700-£800 bill for a problem that is Not of my making. 95% of the time only I am in my car. This is a design quality issue. I took it to Alfa and they have offered 50% towards it but I intend to take it further to the ombudsman and to the media. I can’t believe someone hasn’t done this already! I may be forced to pay for the drivers door now because it’s not safe. I am very interested to hear your thoughts on this.
I have a 4 year old Guilietta first registered May 2014 I bought her May 2015. The drivers side handle snapped about 6 weeks ago and I waited until the annual service thinking I’d get it fixed then, only to be told a new door card was needed and it would cost £300 plus labour. I couldn’t believe it. I put a post on here to look for help to fix it if I bought a door card on eBay £80 ish. It was then I discovered this is a much bigger problem. Whilst I was looking into it further blow me down two weeks ago my friend tried to open the passenger door to get out and the passenger door one broke! So right now if anything happened and I needed to get out my car quickly I couldn’t it’s a critical safety risk. But now I’m facing a £700-£800 bill for a problem that is Not of my making. 95% of the time only I am in my car. This is a design quality issue. I took it to Alfa and they have offered 50% towards it but I intend to take it further to the ombudsman and to the media. I can’t believe someone hasn’t done this already! I may be forced to pay for the drivers door now because it’s not safe. I am very interested to hear your thoughts on this.