My mates brother in law has had the coil packs changed 3 times on his golf in America. It seems that either the new stocks are bad or the old stock is getting mixed up with the new.
He also pointed out that the Americans are begining to hate VAG. Not good news when your trying to establish yourself as a luxury car manufacturer in the biggest market in the world.
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Had a search as suggested and read through the various threads, must say I'm not exactly inspired with confidence - looks like it's just a case of waiting for my car to stop working one day.
I'll be picking it up tomorrow (assuming they've fixed the window) and I'll mention the coils to them then.
Have to say I'm really quite underwhelmed with VAG cars of late, a friend had a MkIV Golf GTi (1.8 non-turbo) and had a catalogue of problems with it, and her window dropped into the door too.
My father-in-law has had numerous issues with his MkIV GT-TDi, my Cupra's had the problem with the window and a dodgy temerature sensor, a family friend had an absolute nightmare with a new Ibiza 130bhp TDi (think it ended up going back about ten times in as many weeks) and a colleague's got an AudiTT which has been nothing but trouble.
Another colleague got himself a three year old Vectra dirt cheap and has been running it for a year (15000+ miles) without so much as a single problem.
Very unscientfic and doesn't prove anything, but you do wonder what you're paying top-dollar for sometimes....
(I think the best (certainly the cheapest to run) car I've ever had is a 1988 Cavalier, bought it for £50, got 12 months and 11000 miles out of it, all it needed was one new tyre and a second-hand battery.)
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Cars are getting too complicated. Too much of the technology is untried, untested in the long-term and everyone is paring costs to the bone.
The only ones who seem to be able to successfully manufacture automotive electronic systems that are reliable in the long-term are the Japanese.
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My goodness criticism of 2 Seats!
Until now in the BR all the Seat and Skoda owners repeatedly state how wonderful their cars are - and what rubbish VWs are.
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