Faults:

Had to have a new turbo.

General Comments:

I swapped this Seat Leon FR for my Subaru Forester, which I loved, but it just cost too much to run as a daily driver, I wanted something sporty but cheaper to run, and was offered this Leon FR TDI.

I was a bit concerned with the high mileage at 180,000, but took it for a drive and was very surprised how well it drove and hardly no wear to the seats or interior.

It's a really nice car to drive and feels like it's only done a quarter of the miles on it.

It's very cheap to run and pretty quick when you want it to be.

I had it for a month and the coil light kept coming on when driving on the motorway; I took it to the garage and they scanned it and said it was a problem with the turbo actuator. So I told them to put a complete new turbo on it and give it a full service as I am keeping it. Now it is fine and drives really nice.

I would not hesitate to buy one of these cars with high mileage if it has a full service history like mine has and has been looked after.

When the car was on the ramp, I had a look underneath it and was surprised to see it was in very good condition with no rust at all on any of the suspension or body work; much better than the Forester which do suffer from corrosion as they get older.

I am going to keep this one and see just how high I can get the mileage up to.

The oil and filters will be changed every 5000 miles to keep the engine good.

Great car and highly recommended.

Faults:

Retro fitted cruise control was poor to start with - fixed by an engineer who came to out to the car.

Now the cruise control stalk has worked loose.

General Comments:

Generally a very good car, goes and handles well. Looks great.

Visibility is fine despite the thick, front windscreen pillars.

Level of standard equipment is good.

Scrappage deal was fantastic - but that's finished now.

The only real negative with the car is the seats are uncomfortable - there's a hard ridge that runs front to back in the centre - Seat dealer says this is normal!!

The one thing that has ruined the whole Seat buying experience is the attitude and service provided by the dealership - very poor. Once they had the signature on the order form, they have been very disappointing - interesting to see a similar comment from another person.

Faults:

Contacted Seat UK recently, but never got any reply to my e-mail.

Contacted the dealer - was told their lines were busy, they would call me back. I telephoned three times, but never got a single call back.

Seat have a good product; it's a pity their service couldn't be better. We had a 307, and our previous dealer knocked spots of these people, nothing was too much trouble.

Seat are keen to take your order, but once the car is delivered, well what else can I say.

General Comments:

Good product, poor back up.

Faults:

Nothing so far.

General Comments:

This is a sports car (125hp). The engine is superb. The suspension is firm. I won't recommend the sport suspension if you don't have good roads!

The seats are very comfortable, and there's a lot of room in the back.

This is the facelift model, so the dashboard is totally different from the old one.

The boot is large.

The price was low for a car with so much equipment, especially EBD, TCU, EBA, DSR, ABS, tyre pressure monitoring, automatic air conditioning, leather steering wheel etc. The stereo sounds very good.

It's very fun to drive. I've got my smile on my face when I drive it. Next car will also be a Leon for sure!