Check this out:
vincentus.wrzuta.pl/film/cfYCt5geWm/pas1
One year old car, 40k on the clock.
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Edited by Dynamic Dave on 09/10/2007 at 02:04
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Might be missing something, all I get is a video clip of someone rubbing a badge and then the dashboard?
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2007 Seat Altea XL 2.0 TDI (140) Stylance
2005 Skoda Fabia vrS
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Might be missing something all I get is a video clip of someone rubbing a badge and then the dashboard?
It shows a badge with the laquer peeling off and a really horrid, nasty noise from touching bits of trim.
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The badge is on a wheel trim and has probably been jet washed
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I'd expect nothing less from the sort of person who specs plastic wood on their car.
On the plus side, other half's Passat has now done around 35k since he got it in December 2006, and it's like new.
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Its a product. One anecdote of a very minor failing. If it were a failure of the chassis, that would be news. Why does VdM think its so worthy of raising?
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Oh, I think it is worthy... for all those badge-lovers among us. Mind you, the plastic wood is standard when optic for the loaded versions, so you've got no choice.
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I'd expect nothing less from the sort of person who specs plastic wood on their car.
Some don't have a choice.. the manufactuers force it upon us.
(that's why i bought a MGZT instead of a Rover 75 btw.)
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I'm an Audi driver and general VaG fan, who has owned 2 of the old shape Passats. I therefore have to say that having recently had a new Golf as a hire car and having sat in a New Passat recently, VW have realy tried to save money on their new range of cars. The new shape Passat is not a patch on the outgoing model for solidity and build quality from what I can see.
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Some of the plastics in the Mark V Golf look less solid than in the Mark IV, but in mine at least they don't creak, as they did in the Mark IV I had a few years ago.
I never really understand why some people set so much store by the quality of the dashboard plastics. Most Japanese cars have fairly utilitarian interiors, but the money has been spent on the oily bits - and your chances of getting a bad one are correspondingly less.
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Check out the interior of a Skoda as good if not better than a 1 series I tried and certainly a country mile ahead of the MkV Golf we own. I can almost feel a MTC moment coming on.
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I was looking at replacing my current car with either the Jetta or Passat but I have to say I was not impressed with the quality of both cars. I have ended up buying the Octavia Estate as it seems to be far better built and better value. Not only do VW seem to have a problem with build quality but they should also have a good look at the attitude of the dealers but that is a different issue.
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Every (5 years old or more) Passat and Golf I have ever been in has a strong stink of plastic. I have travelled in and driven VWs in Europe, Africa and North America and the chemical stench is always there. It seems to be a unique VW plastic smell - has anyone else experienced it? I find it so nauseating that it would actually put me off buying a VW.
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You spend more time inside a car than looking at its outside. So you want a well built and attractive interior. I find the Focus and Golf interiors to be so bland as to make me go to sleep and the quality of the plastic is not so great.
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You spend more time inside a car than looking at its outside
that was the reason i sold my 2004 c-max, because i couldn't live with the interior it was bland personified.
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