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our 2000 passat has been problem free. hope i'm not jinxing the car now.
dan

Dan:

My 2002 Jetta has not but compared to most people I only have very minor problems:

1. 1 (or more) ignition coils dies, essentially the car decides to run on 3 (or less cylinders). In Canada this means a unplanned but time consuming trip limping to the dealership; I have heard in the US there is/was a 4-6 weeks backorder on the replacement part.

1a. As a result of 1, my car has a perpetual weird idle from possible misfiring. Also possibly related to a shot oxygen sensor, messed up electronics, etc etc ...

These are very common problems. A poll on vwvortex.com shows more than half VW owners have these problems more than once. You probably would have received letter(s) from VW indicating such a problem. My coilpacks was replaced 3 times (to think I bought a new car, as opposed to a used one, because I didn't want to go to the shop all the time ...)

2. The windows (the piece of glass) has a high propensity of falling into the door

3. Rusting issues with MkIII (previous generation) VWs. No reason to think why the current VWs will not be immune to this problem.

4. The 3 VW dealers I have dealt with in Toronto are less than competant. (Although this could be said of dealerships in general)

5. I do not have the numbers handy, but VWs rate quite low in most satisfaction ratings. IIRC they were next to last in JD Powers' survey.

I think it's safe for me to say I will not buy another VW in the near future

Ouch! Thanks for the heads up.

A friend of mine also drives a Jetta, I think it's an 02'. He's had the window problem, but also his clutch fell once pretty much randomly, while he was about three hours from home. I've seen this guy drive stick too, he's good, doesn't ride the clutch. I'd let him cruise around in my Subaru any day. He's got the diesel version, and while it does get impressive gas milage, I can speak for him and say he'd never buy one again. It may just be a Jetta problem though, so I don't know that I'd project these issues over all VWs.
-A

To add to that, I have known friends and friends of friends who own VW Golf, every one would have the window down and not going up again. (that happened during winter!!!) For that VW extended the warranty to 7yrs just for the windows.. One of my close friend, she leased the golf, in 2 years, she went to VW maintanence 7 times for all sort of big and small problem. I don't know but VW seems to be the lowest form of European cars.

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