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Even Before Toyota, VW Knew All About Winter Woes
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Martin Schwoerer
(IC: employee)
Published: February 4th, 2010
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TTAC has reported on VW’s plans to become the global number one. Looking at Toyota’s current quality problems, one could be excused for thinking that there just might be some substance to Wolfsburg’s plans. After all, Toyota’s days of glory seem to be over, while VW is on a roll, with sales growing and quality improving. Right?
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Published February 4th, 2010 3:34 PM
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Well, I was planning on replacing my 2000 Crown Vic with a Golf. Time to rethink. My CV sits outdoors all year north of Toronto, where -20 provokes some comments, but where life goes on. It always starts. 265,000k, and it's needed a battery replacement, spark plug replacement, brake pad replacement, a few front suspension bits, new shocks, and that naughty plastic intake manifold replacement--a few weeks out of warranty--for which I had to pay. Reliable, safe as a house, cheap to fix, tons of room, a highway masterpiece. Forget the Golf, I'm a gonna find another CV--maybe a used OPP unmarked cruiser--for a few thousand dollars and drive it for another ten years. My wife will be furious. The old-man image copper-wannabe has to share a driveway with her nervous, revy, buzzy but hip Accord. It seems that North American auto makers actually test their cars in Canadian winters. Europe, on the other hand, is getting back into colder winters after a warmish honeymoon of a few decades. But all this is moot. With the coming economic armageddon just getting started, even mighty Volkswagen might be producing only emergency shelters and riot-control trucks in a few years.
head over to vwvortex.com this is a well documented thing from back when the MK5 first started to roll out. everyone that i knew with the issue, went to the dealer and had it covered no questions asked. and vw has since released a redesigned fender liner ro something that doesnt allow water to get trapped. old news. the whole "your stupid if you buy a vw cause they break" thing is really really old.