11-18-2012, 01:34 PM
Speedy wrote:
[quote=Mr645]No more VW's for quite a while
Me either because I expect to get another 20 years out of the two I currently have.
I know people who have had VW's go for years and years with no problems so I figured after my 1998 mess, I was due for a good one. My R32 had tons of problems too. Mostly transmission related. VW did take care of everything, paying me for 8 months lease over the years, & extending my powertrain warranty to 10 years, unlimited milage. In the end the transmission still did not work right. In addition the Haldex AWD system main control unit failed twice, the rack and pinion unit of the steering had to be replaced and I got stranded once with a fuel tank failure when it developed a major fuel leak. I also had a wire harness failure because a retaining clip was not installed properly when the car was built. Everything was fixed pretty much in 1-2 days because VW would overnight parts from Germany when needed. Except the wire harness which took 8 days because they had to make one in Germany and ship it here, and the second time the Haldex control unit failed they brought someone in to review it because it failed twice in two months.
The dealer always provided loaner cars and when the wire harness went out (Airbag system inop) and the in house Enterprise was out of cars, the service manager called VW and quickly was authorized to take a brand new VW out of inventory and give me an extended (8 day) test drive. The dealer and VW did a great job, can't complain, but the car had a few more issues then I would have liked.