Firstly,are you sure the clockspring was faulty?It may have been a bad connection issue?Renewing the clockpring module has probably fixed the fault,but not necessarily for the right reason.I would think this part is similar on a lot of VAG models and I don't think it is left/right drive specific.However there may be many world wide plants of manufacture,and it is possible that the product supplied to the US market is the only one affected by the recall..THis problem does not appear to be major in Europe.It is very likely the part has been upgraded/improved,as with all auto parts.The component part number may give some indication as to how many times the part has been superceeded.

USA has a very different legal system to ours, so no precedents there.

Unless you paid extra to extend the factory warranty from 3 to 5 years, a 2013 is out of warranty now - if you continued servicing at the VW dealer you might get them to offer an ex-gratia "goodwill" contribution

Hi

Ive spent most of the afternoon investigating the issue of faulty clock spring.

I was wondering if this has become more of an issue in the uk. As VW only seemed to recall in the USA.

Ive read they had extended the warranty on this part in the uk but this doesn't seem the case.

My car is 8 years old and is going to cost me a fair bob or two to get this fixed.

I hope VW are looking into this in the UK as well as USA as it seems an on going problem.