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Dec 1, 2009 | 05:58 AM

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Saki GT

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I have two friends with 08 Jettas, both black too. One has 26k mi, and the airbag sensor light just came on, but other than that, they've been fine.

Dec 1, 2009 | 06:22 AM

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Malloric

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Originally Posted by gospeedgo1,Nov 30 2009, 07:49 PM

poor experience with my GFs MK4 jetta also. lots of weird stuff failing on a babied car with low mileage.

when (2009 jetta) VW scores a 5.0 out of 10 for reliability by JD Power, you know that VWs are not reliable. no BS here.

http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-...ta/Reliability/

On the other hand, Civic gets an 8, TSX a 7, and the Scion TC a 4... So much for Toyota reliability. Also, one of the main arguments against the Mazda3 was reliability... the '09 (old model) is as reliable as a Civic according to JD powers. Is it true? Dunno, I'm skeptical on that one. Using predicted reliability without a large grain of salt is not the best idea.

Much better to look at actual data, for example warranty direct data. Unfortunately, its UK data and obviously new cars aren't listed.

96-01 Civic has a reliability index of 26.3
07-04 Golf has a reliability index of 88.4

That means while a Civic is much more reliable a Golf is still quite a bit more reliable than the average car (index of 112). Overall, the VW brand is quite similar to Lexus in terms of reliability.

Dec 1, 2009 | 06:48 AM

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^Research and data? Blasphemy

FWIW, my S5 so far has been far less problematic (not at all) than my G37.

Dec 1, 2009 | 07:25 AM

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VWs and Audis are not as bad as some people make them out to be, IMO they have a few more small problems the say Honda/Acura or Toyota/Lexus. I know some of you are going to bring up how your Honda/Acura or Toyota/Lexus has so many problems, I am talking averages. As someone stated there are lemons in avery make and model.

Dec 1, 2009 | 09:22 AM

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Ralleh

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I wouldn't mind having the doors fall off occasionally if the drivetrain were bulletproof for a 100K.

Dec 11, 2009 | 11:57 PM

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RabidRat

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at the risk of being flamed again..

[QUOTE="parm104"]I just got a recall letter this month from Audi regarding the coil packs.

Dec 12, 2009 | 02:10 AM

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From: All up in your inner tubes. Whatcha gonna do sucka?

back when I still worked in car rentals, we had a pretty decent selection of VW's... (at the time, we had model year '08s) a bunch of jettas, some rabbits and passats, and a few beetles.

they were no more finicky than any other car maker, about on par with chevy.