My beloved 07 plate car with 52,000 had a inlet manifold valve go and after three weeks at the garage have now been told that the old valve piece had broken off and fallen into the cyclinder head and completely damaged piston four and I would need a new engine costing me £7,000. I have put my case to seat themselves and firstly they offered no compensation at all and said basically that because that 1 serevice was not done by them that they could do nothing. Since then the garage are trying to help and offered 10% and said seat will match what he has given. I am still trying to put across that having a service done by them would not of prevented this as the part is not lubricated as this is an air intake valve. (I have had an MOT and other work done recently by this garage (SEAT) garage but I still have had no joy. I have contacted trading standards and they advised me to contact the finance company that own the car ( I have 14 payments left to pay). but i am worried that if I get them involved I may end up paying for a new engine and thus taking away the option of putting in a second hand one, My car is still worth £6,500 to £7,000 if the engine were still ok.lol I have found other seat leon cars with the same year as mine with similar problems and have shown these to seat but they said that this is just a small minority and they cant just pay for new engines as this will then cause other motorist to have the same! :-xi just want this company to face up that, yes parts do break and I do totally understand this and yes I am happy to pay for the part to be replaced but the engine should not need replacing at 52,000 and I feel that this must be a manufacturing fault and bad design if a piece can get into the cyclinder head to completely kill my engine. Please help I am at my wits end.