New England B.S. Thread

Why VW? In my experience with them, as soon as warranty is up, car starts breaking expensive stuff. I'd never buy one again.

*I had the dieselgate passat, and I did LOVE that car...until thousands of dollars of electronics broke right after my warranty. The more I looked around, the more that wasn't an uncommon thing. Got rid of it and haven't looked back.

 

My dashboard LIT up like a Xmas tree driving my TDi Golf to the dealer for the final step of the buyback. Handed the keys over, it started up for the buyback rep and I was off with more money than I paid for the car.

 

We have had a few different VWs, and all I have heard since we bought the Subaru is how much she misses the VWs. I think the Subaru is a better buy, but don’t think I’m going to win. I did spend a few minutes on VWs web site, and learned we can get a gulf in manual, so I would rather go new over used.

 

If you buy one new you are safe, I just wouldn't buy an older one, unless it was REALLY old. VW might be getting their shit together after dieselgate but for a while they were cutting some corners IMO.

I've actually been hearing and reading some pretty bad stuff about Subaru lately too, seems like they are having a lot of issues on newer stuff as well.


If you look hard enough you will find issues with everyone including Toyota, so it's probably a crapshoot. I would feel better about new VW than Subaru though, VW is out to prove things these days and Subaru seems to be coasting on their past performance.

 

I can find out. My buddy is a pretty serious car guy, buys and sells them, works on them... he had a Yaris when he had a 110 mile commute- one way. Said it was an awesome little thing.

Probably my worst car experience was a early 90's Jetta I bought used with about 60k on it. What a POS. Just about everything electronic on it went south. Mass air flow sensor (like $450), both fuel pumps (yes, the POS had two of them and they both went), sunroof, door locks and I can't remember what else. When I sold it the final F-you was the anti-theft failed so you couldn't disable it. Gave it away to the unlucky soul who was coming to buy it for $1800.

 

I had a venza rental for a week when I totaled the fj and loved it. It was easy to drive, great gas mileage, lots of space.

But my fiance says that I had a concussion,, and that's why I liked it....

 

My old man has a venza through his work. He hates the car. Everything about it haha. He only uses it during snow storms because if someone that doesn't know how to drive in the snow hits him, he'd rather it be in that than his IS250.

 

Morning all.

Plus, like the name says, everything will Fit. The GF had two of them before she bought her Mustang and they're great little cars. 35MPG easily, more if you babied them. And reliable, reliable, reliable.

 

Subaru has always had problems in my opinion, decent cars, just need timing belts and head gaskets on the older ones and the newer WRX had issues with ringlands. I've never heard much good come of VW, but to each their own. I stick with the Japanese makes unless one day I need a bigger truck than a Tundra for whatever reason

 

I wouldn't get a vw or Audi without a warranty

 

I'd be hard pressed to buy one with the warranty. Dealerships are a PITA. Even if it is warranty work, it still means I have to waste a lot of time jockeying cars to and from to the dealership. I view warranty as a 'on shit' if something really goes wrong.

 

I was constantly popping my tires in the vw for some reason, never had an issue before on any other vehicle. Anyways, I had the warranty for tires and you should have seen the fucking hoops they would put you through to replace them. The time I had to waste and spend driving to the dealer and back/fighting with them...was really about worth the cost of me just buying them myself.

 

Haha I mean I wouldn't buy one regardless. But if I did, better have that warranty

 

Voodoo racks, they go under the OEM tonnue cover.

 

Well just got a call from Toyota. They want me to come in for the frame warranty lol. Officially extended lol. I was like yeah I'm in no rush, I'm going to pass lol

 

VW electronics = shit, I would take a manual trans with out the electronics any day of the week. I will not buy an auto VW, no way no how.

All the VWs we have had, were a blast to drive. Fox, bug and Gulf.
edit forgot the Jetta Wagon.

 

You had a VW Fox? Those were some very basic cars! Lol

 

loved it, white car with a red canoe strapped to the top most of the year. Felt like the canoe helped the handling.

 

I don't know if it's still the case, but a lot of the ringland issues were with the tunes the cars had because of emissions. The 06 and 07 STi had effectively the same engine (there were minor differences) but the tunes were wildly different. The 06 wouldn't blow up nearly as often as the 07 did.

The WRX / STi are simply cars that need to be driven intelligently and you'll be all set. Don't get on it until oil is up to temp and don't load the driveline up and you'll be golden. My best friend had over 200k on his WRX and still had the stock turbo / trans / clutch and was at 20 psi for 140k of it. Mine never had a single hiccup, but I was super diligent with maintenance and whatnot. I checked the oil every single day on that car.

 

I'm not saying they're bad, it just seems over all that they seem to need more than say Honda or Toyota usually do. Most techs I know say the same thing as well... But I think a good portion that drive them also don't really understand what maintenance is