V184 wrote:When in warranty its the reluctance to replace anything Buy a Connect you can take them into the car dealers who seem more switched on again from personal experience would have thought apart from running the belts in oil there the same as any other euro6 3.5 t vehicle
That doesn't surprise me, they make no money if parts need to be replaced in warranty.
I'd say the wet belt is a critical difference though, particularly when you consider that when it snaps you are left with a piece of scrap metal. The fact that it is in the engine makes it so hard to inspect and when you add to it that they are snapping well before the 150k service interval I think makes it a particularly undesirable vehicle. At least with an external belt it can be inspected fairly easily, and you can have more confidence with a chain that it should at least hit the service interval.