Drago
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Hes daft to take it to them then. You don't have to buy another car in order to be able to use a cheaper garage - that would be a very expensive way to save money.
Ah, there you go. My Golf self immolated, and to be honest I did little to stop the conflagration once it had started. Why people get moist over them is beyond me.
Amen. I simply cannot believe the hype over VAG stuff, have owned a handful and they're average at best. If anyone actually believes they're better built than a Vauxhall or Ford for example, then the best of luck to them. Over-rated springs to mind.
Depends what you define as "quality". They don't perform especially well in the reliability index, which suggests the perceived quality isn't translating into anything tangible. Prior to her retirement my Mum was a senior manager at the importers, Volkswagen Group UK, and she never rated them, putting the quality image down to decades of cutting edge marketing.
Comparisons of 200k mile cars are ridiculous, unless they've been driven bu the same driver, in the same manner, over the same distances, and maintained identically. I'd love to see you have tried to drive my old Golf at 50k miles, seeing as it had burned itself to a crisp.When I take a VAG group car to bits you can feel the quality, right down to the trim clips and the trim itself. To be fair on the reliabilty bit that is across the board on all makes, including Japanese nowadays, to much technology and sensors involved to be super reliable. You get in and drive a 200,000 mile Mondeo and then do the same in 200,000 mile VAG group car and you will feel a huge diference. I am not making this up, right down to how the metal feels the VAG group cars are a class above Ford and Vauxhall, and if we talk of clever marketing Ford have it, they have spent the last 100 years selling poor quality motoring.
VW Group cars are all galvanised, unless they've recently dropped that. Shouldn't rust unless repaired with pattern parts. I agree they're overpriced. Skodas are better-built, despite using most of the same parts. Conversely, Audis are rubbish. People buy them for the badge and the fancy interiors but they are woefully unreliable.
BMWs and Mazdas can be pretty rusty. In Mazda's case, it's because there is no point making a car to last 10 years for the JDM because they scrap or export them before that (the shaken test is hugely expensive once you've done all the precautionary replacements). I am a big Mazda fan but rust is their Achilles heel.