My dad's secretary back in 1979 bought a VW Rabbit Diesel to save a
little money.
HA ha ha, she spent more money repairing it than she saved buy buying a
small car. Her husband too spent a fortune on repairs on his VW
Schirroco. The Rabbit ate fuel injectors, requiring replacements of 4 at
a time. It also ate glo-plugs and the brain box kept failing in both the
Schirroco & Rabbit.

A new 79 Cadillac at that time was only $1000 more than the Rabbit and
had my dad's secretary gotten that she'd of had years of trouble free
service - as proved by the owner of the business next to my dads shop
who purchased a 79 Cadillac the same week Rosie bought the Rabbit.

The Rabbit was traded in after 5 years of misery on a 1984 Pontiac 6000
and the guy with the Cadillac got close to 16 years out of it before he
decided to get a new Cadillac. More his wife's idea than his...

harryface
91 Bonneville 320,204
05 Park Avenue 92,153

"Harry Face" <Harryface9105 (AT) webtv (DOT) net> wrote

All sorts of anecdotal experiences. I have owned two Passats, and both
gave exemplary service....never a problem, BUT some friends of mine had
electrical problems with theirs.

In northern Europe, the VW (Golf or equivalent) diesel is very popular
and is not known to give problems to any extent.

I have always expected that the VW dealerships and VW corporate here
in the USA are some of the biggest problems. They CAN produce a good
car, but without proper representation and proper consideration to
customer care, they will end up like some other companies we often
thrash here.

hls wrote:
yes, a PITA VW dealer at least traditionally is the rule not the
exception. It is sad that they support such excellent products so
poorly. They seem to have the attitude that their products are perfect
and therefore if something goes wrong it's your fault and therefore you
deserve to be punished by waiting a long time and paying a lot.

Maybe things have changed, I don't know, but the closest I have ever
come to taking a swing at someone on the other side of a counter from me
was at a VW dealership in Michigan... they were out and out crooks, or
else spectacularly incompetent to the point that the stories they told
as to what was wrong with/what they were doing to my car didn't even
make sense.

nate

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