I feel your pain, I bought a 2001.5 Passat (New), my mother in law has a newer Beetle, my friend had a newer Jetta, all of us have had inexcusable problems with our cars.
My car is now approaching 130k miles and the reason I didn't sell it was because I didn't want someone else to have to deal with all the issues I had become used to dealing with. So I've decided to drive it into the ground.
I will *never* buy a VW again (or Audi for that matter), and I always make it a point to bring up the issues I've experienced with them to hopefully save someone else the same pain.
Had a Y2K VW Jetta that cost more in repairs than any car I've ever owned. Heated seats shorted, taking out my odometer, clock, AC and radio - since I was driving backroads at night, it wasn't very well timed. Thats only one problem - had to replace the glow plugs every SUMMER thanks to plug #3 going out on a regular basis (yeah it was a TDI). Had the check engine light on for 2 out of 5 years I owned it. Ended up trading it in for $2k towards a Jeep - thing was worth more, but the dash had a check engine, brake failure and two others I don't recall - all of them checked out to be bogus sensors, but would cost more than $3k to repair.
So I wonder what would happen if you got the inevitable check engine light in this car... would it get the colorful spinning top, or the waiting clock icon?
i have a golf mk5 that's now 2 years old, and - literally - the only problem i've ever had with it is if you try to adjust the right mirror, it also adjusts the left mirror at the same time. it started happening about a week ago, but it was already booked in for a service next week, so they can fix it then.
The Golf is the only quality car VW makes. My mom has a 10 year old Golf that pretty much drives like new - amazing. But it makes sense if you consider that in Germany, every second car is a Golf.
Other than that, all my VW-owning friends had tons of issues with their cars. I love their designs but QA really sucks badly. The extended warranty is actually a really good deal on a new VW ;)
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Nice...one more thing to break in my Touareg. Over 3 yrs it has spent about 8 weeks in the shop.
I feel your pain, I bought a 2001.5 Passat (New), my mother in law has a newer Beetle, my friend had a newer Jetta, all of us have had inexcusable problems with our cars.
My car is now approaching 130k miles and the reason I didn't sell it was because I didn't want someone else to have to deal with all the issues I had become used to dealing with. So I've decided to drive it into the ground.
I will *never* buy a VW again (or Audi for that matter), and I always make it a point to bring up the issues I've experienced with them to hopefully save someone else the same pain.
Glad I'm not alone.
Had a Y2K VW Jetta that cost more in repairs than any car I've ever owned. Heated seats shorted, taking out my odometer, clock, AC and radio - since I was driving backroads at night, it wasn't very well timed. Thats only one problem - had to replace the glow plugs every SUMMER thanks to plug #3 going out on a regular basis (yeah it was a TDI). Had the check engine light on for 2 out of 5 years I owned it. Ended up trading it in for $2k towards a Jeep - thing was worth more, but the dash had a check engine, brake failure and two others I don't recall - all of them checked out to be bogus sensors, but would cost more than $3k to repair.
So I wonder what would happen if you got the inevitable check engine light in this car... would it get the colorful spinning top, or the waiting clock icon?
Forgot to mention - will the tail lights burn out every 6 weeks like every other VW sold since 1998? Don't tell me you never noticed!
Next time you drive behind a VW at night, count the number of burned out bulbs...
hmm
i have a golf mk5 that's now 2 years old, and - literally - the only problem i've ever had with it is if you try to adjust the right mirror, it also adjusts the left mirror at the same time. it started happening about a week ago, but it was already booked in for a service next week, so they can fix it then.
The Golf is the only quality car VW makes. My mom has a 10 year old Golf that pretty much drives like new - amazing. But it makes sense if you consider that in Germany, every second car is a Golf.
Other than that, all my VW-owning friends had tons of issues with their cars. I love their designs but QA really sucks badly. The extended warranty is actually a really good deal on a new VW ;)