Hi Tech cars cost a fortune to fix!

[Dustydog]

SWMBO 8 year old Kia Cee’d has a failed flickering daylight running head lamp.
Kia changed the electronics design two months after ours. Pattern parts are available for the newer model but not ours. Kia part only and fitting looking like £700 or so🙀🙀🤬🤬
There are no bulbs as we know them nor height adjusting screws. All done electronically, with sleight of hand, electric motors and high voltages the Daleks would be proud of.
Not happy but can’t use the car with DL flashing. First big expense , we’ve had from three months old so can’t complain.

But why is such a simple essential part on a middle of the road car so ridiculously expensive🙉

I wonder how much the VW headlamp will be ? A King’s ransom?

 

[Beachball]

My wife car a Volkswagen Up a orange light came up on the dash look in the handbook it says tyre pressures rang a place called Bush Tyres near me bring it in we will have a look so off i go with her car and waited only ten minutes . ask the mechanic both the rear tyres were out he pump them up and the light had gone off and the best bit there was no charge ,If it was anything else the car is under warranty.

 

[RogerL]

SWMBO 8 year old Kia Cee’d has a failed flickering daylight running head lamp.
Kia changed the electronics design two months after ours. Pattern parts are available for the newer model but not ours. Kia part only and fitting looking like £700 or so🙀🙀🤬🤬
There are no bulbs as we know them nor height adjusting screws. All done electronically, with sleight of hand, electric motors and high voltages the Daleks would be proud of.
Not happy but can’t use the car with DL flashing. First big expense , we’ve had from three months old so can’t complain.

But why is such a simple essential part on a middle of the road car so ridiculously expensive🙉

I wonder how much the VW headlamp will be ? A King’s ransom?

Touareg headlights are about £500 per side for the "basic" HID that my SE gets, more for the R-Line - when the R-Line DRLs fail, as they all do sooner or later, a new headlamp is the only solution.

 

[Dustydog]

Touareg headlights are about £500 per side for the "basic" HID that my SE gets, more for the R-Line - when the R-Line DRLs fail, as they all do sooner or later, a new headlamp is the only solution.

Mine’s the R line so that’s something to look forward to🥲

 

[otherclive]

That’s outlandish and given the difference between your model and the slightly later one looking at a breakers isn’t a low risk option.

 

[Hutch]

That’s outlandish and given the difference between your model and the slightly later one looking at a breakers isn’t a low risk option.

I recently had to get a replacement DRL ,( it's a fog lamp and DRL in one unit) for the Santa Fe, New part on E bay, £75 , posted from China, but they sent the wrong unit twice.