Cory
San Antonio,#2Consumer Comment
Thu, August 05, 2004
Have to agree with you about VW's. Leased a 01 Jetta was in the shop more times than I could remember. 7 times alone for the window not rolling up. The whole time we had the car the AM part of the radio never worked. 3 or 4 times they worked on it but never got it to function, no big loss, never listen to AM. But, you are telling me a VW dealer can't figure out what's wrong. Now, how is it that a POS KIA comes with a 10 yr/100,000 mi limited, for what that is worth, warranty, and VW gave us, at the time a 2 yr/24,000 mi warranty? I think 04 or 05 models have a 3 yr/36,000 mi warranty. It was amazing all the things that went wrong with our Jetta that I'd never heard of before. Since we were in a 3 yr lease and the warrant only lasted 2 yrs, we seldom drove the car after the second year and bought another type of vehicle. I figured it was cheaper to let it sit than risk having something go wrong and having to pay for a repair. VW seems to be doing the same thing American mfg's did in the early 70's by building the biggest pieces of crap they can and foster them on the public. It's a VW quality control issue. And, they have many issues. A 40 yr old VW is more reliable than a new one.