Faults:

Paint defects on off-side front door on delivery.

Rear washer inoperative from new.

Glove box catch faulty from new.

Doors difficult to shut (need a considerable slam).

Water stain to interior roof lining from new. Transpired a drain hose from the sunroof had not been connected in the factory. Had a replacement lining, but this was not fitted correctly so had to have further work!

Nearside rear shock absorber leaked at 4000 miles (a dangerous defect).

Suffers from carbon stains on rear valence (from exhaust).

Faulty windscreen wipe motor replaced at 7000 miles.

Rusty nearside front door at 7000 miles.

Car was off-the-road for 30 days in its first year!

General Comments:

Amazing engine. Superb torque at next-to-no revs. Always gives acceleration regardless of the selected gear. Can push the car along at 1500 rpm, yet also goes up to normal petrol engine limits (although there's no extra power up there!) so little to be gained above 3500 rpm. Fantastic economy; 60+ mpg is not difficult and 70+ perfectly possible. Would expect overall average around 60mpg.

Low cost of ownership.

Everything else though is pretty poor.

Ride is appallingly hard for this sort of car.

Made mistake of buying 3 door model (cheaper and fewer possible rust points) but front doors are too wide and access to rear is difficult.

Faults:

Rear Suspension Arm At 10,000 Miles, Due to rattling.

Juddering Wipers.

Knocking noise coming from rear passenger side.

High revving at 5000-6000, causing car to drive itself (current problem)

Brake Discs needed replacing at 20,000.

Noisy water pump.

Headlights switching themselves off.

Engine sounds like a quiet diesel.

1st to 2nd gear bad.

Juddering clutch.

General Comments:

Nice car to look at, but loads of faults, dealers no help. found knocking noise myself at rear, it was the folding seat latch, the plastic on the catch was worn, put some electrical tape around bar, noise stopped. Has anyone suffered very high revs when driving car at normal temperature, engine doesn't do it when cold, I only had it serviced 3 days before, they don't want to know. it doesn't seem to do it with air filter box off? other than that a good car, car had not caused me any problems until warranty ran out.

Faults:

As far as I can think there has nothing gone wrong with the car.

The only complant I have it the car does take a long time to warm up from cold mornings, but diesels engines do run cold anyway.

General Comments:

Very cheap and comfy car, I have had my car for 8 months now and still don't have any problems with it. Its very quick when you need it to be and very cheap when you take it easy.

60mpg is easly achieved.

Faults:

Both Front Headlights were really badly misted up and had to be replaced.

New Clutch fitted at 30,000 miles.

The seats had started to wear badly.

Drivers Electric window had to be replaced.

Windscreen washer motor and arms had to be replaced.

Clutch caused me a lot of trouble, though the dealer claimed there was nothing wrong with it. The car shuddered quite badly when taking off from lights or a junction.

Could not rely on the car to start on cold mornings.

General Comments:

The car was quite nippy for a 1.2 8 Valve.

And generally I was quite happy with the car.

The thing that impressed me most was the size of the interior.

Also the equipment that came as standard was very good (CD Player, Sunroof, electric windows, remote central locking & Alarm).

The car was cheap to buy and run at the start, but the longer I owned it, the more it cost me to repair it.

In the end though I felt I could not rely on the car as it would not start on cold mornings. I got stuck in a few places by the car not starting.