posted 11-20-2008 05:01 PM         

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*2004 GTI VR6
*Serviced Only at VW Dealers, no gaps in the service history.
*Transmission Bearing Failure at 60k (right after warranty expiration (lame f'in warranty).
*VW USA Customer Care? Told me I'm SOL. Won't help at all. Don't care at all. Took 5 days for them to say I'm SOL because I'm 550 miles past 60k.
*Cost? $3,800 before tax.
*Failures in the last year? Fuse Box (the entire thing melted), both cooling fans ($900 after tax), lever for opening the hood (apparantly a very complex high tech piece of f'in plastic. How hard is this to design. Oh. My. God.
*200 Suburu Outback, 130,000 miles, one failure. One. Headgasket. When? 130,000k. How f'in hard can it possible be to make a car get to 100k in one piece. Seriously. It's f'in 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!
*Bottom line? This is my fifth, and last VW/Audi product, and I will never recommend them to anybody again (I've referred three people to Audi in the last year. All three bought. I'll never, ever, ever do it again).

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Why did I ever leave Suburu? Why? Why!!!!! I'm an idiot.

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posted 11-20-2008 10:29 PM         

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It is a big club.

Welcome.

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posted 11-22-2008 11:44 PM         

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Welcome.

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posted 11-23-2008 11:11 PM         

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I assume that this is a manual transmission car. Either way, transmission failure at 60k is pathetic. And even more pathetic is VW attitude. I just hope this arrogance and utter indifference will catch up with them. About the cooling fans - I had one fan motor fail on my Mazda 626 at about 150k and that was rectified by replacing one fan motor which I bought for about $ 130 and installed myself. But $ 900 for two fan motors? These are Rolls Royce part prices.

60k miles is way too early for fan motors to fail. I live in Florida and run A/C constantly, even in January to keep the humidity down. My fan motors are on all the time when A/C is running. I have had no problems with my Mazda's manual transmission to date and now the car has 215k miles.

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posted 11-24-2008 10:34 AM         

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60K is actullay GREAT! My buddy's 2004 Audi A4 needed a new gear box in '05 with ONLY 16k miles!

If you got to 60k, then you had 45k more worry-free-miles than some Audis!

This guy now drive a Subaru...trouble free over 1.5 years & 33k miles, so-far.

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posted 12-01-2008 12:01 PM            

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See my sig, contact me if you want to unload.

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posted 12-01-2008 06:57 PM         

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Originally posted by Lunchindabox:
See my sig, contact me if you want to unload.

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This is too easy to make fun of!

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posted 05-20-2010 11:38 AM            

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Just had the same prob. my transmission just went out on my 02 gti vr6 at 70 thousand miles and VW says OH WELL sorry...WTF!!!now i am totally screwed!!

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posted 05-20-2010 11:46 AM            

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also if anyone else has had problems with their transmissions, what did you do, and did VW help you at all? i have no idea what to do, as i have not enough money to fix it but i still need a damn car... SO PISSES!!! any help would be appreicated!

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posted 05-20-2010 12:44 PM         

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Wow! You are one of the lucky "Drivers" that made it past 50k miles!

What kind of help are you looking for?

Is this an auto or manual?

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posted 05-23-2010 12:47 PM            

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Its a 6 speed manual

i just want/need financial help, preferablely from VW... i mean i have no car now and no money and dont know what to do...

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posted 05-24-2010 04:01 PM         

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VW has perfected the concept of a "throwaway car". Too bad its price tag does not match its total lack of durability.

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posted 07-12-2010 09:36 AM         

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260k miles on my original 5 speed manual Mazda 626 transmission now - still shifting and performing well.

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