Cupra Thoughts - 100 miles in

JF77

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I too have had many Cupra incarnations and this must be the worse.
No traction, door rattles, dashboard rattles, sensors going of all the time, warning lights come and then go off, info system is a nightmare to use, LED lights not bright enough, DSG wont work in the snow etc etc.
and Ive been waiting six months for a touch up stick!
 

MarkE

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It's ok to necro my own thread, right?

North of 15,000 miles on the clock now so it's time to recap :

- The mapping is still borked between 2000 and 3000rpm, I don't care that the dealer couldn't find any problems. Unless you like looking like it's your first lesson in traffic, in which case... Groovy.

- There's a ridiculous amount of power hiding behind the ESC without any warning lights telling you so. This being the case, there really should be a simple button to turn off the ESC, not a 4-step touchscreen process with your eyes off the road.

- The stereo drops out of shuffle when it feels like it after ignition off. Seriously, this is just broken and there's no need for it.


Other than that, it had 2 front tyres at 8k miles and an injector died at around 10k miles, putting the car off the road for a couple of weeks courtesy of SEAT UK, who wanted to confirm the problem wasn't down to crap fuel. Last week it had a set of wiper blades.

All in all, better fuel economy than any of my previous SEATs, better tyre life and an all round better ownership experience.

So when's the Cupra R out? :D
 

Ken H

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Dec 20, 2015
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It's ok to necro my own thread, right?

North of 15,000 miles on the clock now so it's time to recap :

- The mapping is still borked between 2000 and 3000rpm, I don't care that the dealer couldn't find any problems. Unless you like looking like it's your first lesson in traffic, in which case... Groovy.

- There's a ridiculous amount of power hiding behind the ESC without any warning lights telling you so. This being the case, there really should be a simple button to turn off the ESC, not a 4-step touchscreen process with your eyes off the road.

- The stereo drops out of shuffle when it feels like it after ignition off. Seriously, this is just broken and there's no need for it.


Other than that, it had 2 front tyres at 8k miles and an injector died at around 10k miles, putting the car off the road for a couple of weeks courtesy of SEAT UK, who wanted to confirm the problem wasn't down to crap fuel. Last week it had a set of wiper blades.

All in all, better fuel economy than any of my previous SEATs, better tyre life and an all round better ownership experience.

So when's the Cupra R out? :D
Don't you just keep the button pressed for a few seconds to completely turn it off?
 

Stubaloo

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I'm 2300 miles in and yes I like it but I feel that u get what you pay for and for the price
It's a bargain yes build quality isn't the best odd squeek nock here and there but love the
Jakel and hide about the car I gave up my freelander and a caterham both of them cars was great freelander build was better and my caterham was fast but wouldn't say faster But then I do have a jb1 attached and I no this may sound strange but the car actually drives better with it .its driven only weekends and through week not to often so I never get niggled by all the other bits .
 

Ken H

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Dec 20, 2015
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Cork , Ireland
And I thought it was just me ...... :(

Nope it's definitely in mine too. I would say all cars , manual definitely . Between 2000 and 3000 revs . It's like if you fool the car and pretend your going to gun it but don't and back off acceleration between those revs it gets quite lumpy. Its not even part throttle, I would say it happens when your foot is just resting on the accelerator.
 

Seastormer

Cupra Leon VZ2 300/CBF1000
Apr 25, 2014
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Nope it's definitely in mine too. I would say all cars , manual definitely . Between 2000 and 3000 revs . It's like if you fool the car and pretend your going to gun it but don't and back off acceleration between those revs it gets quite lumpy. Its not even part throttle, I would say it happens when your foot is just resting on the accelerator.

Never noticed it in mine.
 
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