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Add me to the list of "I'll never buy VW again" people. Electrical problems, then when we waited 2k miles too long to change the timing belt, the whole engine w
by ogre_codes 6y ago
Add me to the list of "I'll never buy VW again" people. Electrical problems, then when we waited 2k miles too long to change the timing belt, the whole engine was totaled. Later, same car ended up belching the turbo fan out the exhaust system. It was a $25,000 car that cost us $35,000. Never VW Again.
- pskinner 6y agoThe engine being totaled was your fault, always change the timing belt on or before its due to be changed.
- ogre_codes 6y agoSure... because the consequence for being 1 month behind on regular maintenance should be complete destruction of the engine with no warning. I mean. I accept that there was negligence on my part there. But it wasn't a huge lapse and that is the crappiest of crappy failure modes. Never had another car as finicky and high maintenance.
- atoav 6y agoWhen I visited Sarajevo my beaten down 1995 VW polo made the grim bosnian guy who's job it was to being tourists to their apartments smile — "This is a good car, you can get every part cheap." And indeed I had to exchange the motor because my brother drove it too long without putting oil into it. Exchanging the whole motor block costed 500 Euros. My father exchanged one of his front lights for the same price.
- Daho0n 6y ago>we waited 2k miles too long to change the timing belt, the whole engine was totaled. Uh, if anything that is perfect engineering.