I part ex’d my old Focus with a obviously slipping clutch. My mate who worked at the dealer and was selling me a new car said it didn’t matter as long as it could drive on to a ramp as it was just going to be punted to auction anyway so just needed to be able to limp in to the line up.
Exactly the same for me – clutch plus flywheel etc would have been much more than its value. As it was I barely got above scrap value though. It was so far gone that I was happy to get to the dealer on the morning…
Is it actually showing symptoms of a fault? Would be a shame to lose 2.5K of value if it’s still driving fine.
Is the dealer who is taking it the one who is diagnosing the fault, BTW? I would want a second opinion due to my inherent suspicion that the dealer knows it is just an indicator fault and he can just reset it and sell on for more.
Either way I would be doing the minimum work needed to turn the light off (over and above just putting electrical tape over the display 🙂 and immediately PXing it elsewhere.