Hi
I spotted rust starting to bubble on the boot lid surrounding the bottom half of the boot badge about 8 weeks ago. Lifting the boot badge reveals a damp patch in the recess and sure enough the worst of the rust is there.
I visited my local VW dealer, who put an application in for warranty work. This was refused at first, with VW claiming that it was the result of an external impact. I had to contact Customer Services to complain about their response, and who arranged for an independent paint assessor to look at the car who felt that it was not through corrosion, which is covered under the 12 year corrosion warranty. He felt that it was a paint defect, which is the standard 3yr/60k warranty. He also claimed to have never seen this problem before on any VW, which is odd as I thought that it was pretty common.
VW have refused to pay anything, not even goodwill on account of the car being 6 years old and 66k miles. Apparently they only offer goodwill up to 5 years old (25% goodwill). However, reading Boothy's rust thread I spotted a couple of members who appeared to report the same problem and to have got VW to fix it apparently for free. To those members, and maybe others: Was your car much newer/lower mileage than mine? I'm not sure if they are yet again trying to fob me off.
Cheers,
Jim