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Offline Norbreck21a

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Reliability of our MKV's
« on: May 08, 2009, 08:14:41 am »
I was sat here this morning, browsing through my usual parade of VW forum sites, and it struck me that all you ever tend to see is people with problems (I guess that's what the foums are for). They go on about their car still being in warranty and going in again for it's 9th fault etc. etc.

I occured to me, that by their very nature, forums aren't usually full of people posting " my car is totally fault free after 3 years" etc. I was wondering what is the "real" situation regarding the reliability of our MKV's ? Now I know mine is a soot chucker, and therefore not a highly tuned road beast, but anyway, during it's 3 years manufacture warranty, it was totally fault free. I had one recall to check the DMF, (which was OK BTW), other than that, just routine servicing. The same story with my wifes 06 Polo Sport. It's just coming to the end of it's warranty and has been bullet proof.

Now I know the GTI's and R32 are from stock highly tuned specialist vehicles, that many members have modified well beyond the original VW specifications, but just wanted to know, has anyone else had problem free motoring. I'm not talking about, the odd squeak or bulb faiures, or any faults that was directly as a result of a performance modification.

It seems the MKV get's a bad rep for build quality on some forums and was just wondering what my buddies on this forum think ?
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2009, 08:41:18 am »
Mine is coming up for 4 years old this month, I have owned for the last 2 of them - had a couple of things under warranty - door seals, wiper motor, window motor and air con unit - all in the early days.  (touch wood) its been fine for the past 12months and I cant fault it.  Its aged really well if I'm honest compared to my older cars, when they turned over 3 they started to feel it a little.

Will be sad to see it go really.
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2009, 09:02:56 am »
Are you selling up Neg? 
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2009, 09:11:20 am »
I've had no problems whatsoever with my car, owned since October 2007.
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2009, 09:17:23 am »
well....i have got major stone chips on the front of mine, within 5000 miles!

apart from that, my limited time of owning a mk5 has seen completely trouble free motoring.

mk4 was a slightly different story!
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2009, 09:26:53 am »
I have had 4 MKV's most of which have been modified, three of them ran fine, no problems whatsoever  :happy2: One of them roasted the gearbox after 4000 miles which was odd but it was sorted straight away by VW and ran fine for another 30,000 miles till I sold her. I have had nothing but good experiences with them  :jumpmove:

However my current A3 has been a nightmare, nothing but problems  :sick:
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2009, 09:28:30 am »
was that the black caractere one with the gearbox?

i couldnt believe VW  did that under warranty!

that was a week before road trip 2007 right? we nearly had a man down! bad times
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2009, 09:52:25 am »
Quote from: JPC on May 08, 2009, 09:28:30 am
was that the black caractere one with the gearbox?

i couldnt believe VW  did that under warranty!

that was a week before road trip 2007 right? we nearly had a man down! bad times

That is the one my man, we were sh*tting ourselves that week  :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2009, 10:05:37 am »
Quote from: VeeDubDan on May 08, 2009, 09:02:56 am
Are you selling up Neg? 

Sure am  :sad:
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2009, 10:23:45 am »
Quote from: T88OMM on May 08, 2009, 09:52:25 am
Quote from: JPC on May 08, 2009, 09:28:30 am

that was a week before road trip 2007 right? we nearly had a man down! bad times


That is the one my man, we were sh*tting ourselves that week  :grin: :grin: :grin:


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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2009, 10:26:11 am »
Quote from: Norbreck21a on May 08, 2009, 08:14:41 am

I was sat here this morning, browsing through my usual parade of VW forum sites, and it struck me that all you ever tend to see is people with problems (I guess that's what the foums are for). They go on about their car still being in warranty and going in again for it's 9th fault etc. etc.


....I don't agree. There are more threads which share the joy of owning a Mk5. This is especially true on this site.
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2009, 10:30:47 am »
Quote from: RedRobin on May 08, 2009, 10:23:45 am
Quote from: T88OMM on May 08, 2009, 09:52:25 am
Quote from: JPC on May 08, 2009, 09:28:30 am

that was a week before road trip 2007 right? we nearly had a man down! bad times


That is the one my man, we were sh*tting ourselves that week  :grin: :grin: :grin:





"oh ha ha" said Jay in a sarcastic tone! ;)  :grin:
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2009, 10:32:54 am »
Quote from: neg on May 08, 2009, 10:05:37 am
Quote from: VeeDubDan on May 08, 2009, 09:02:56 am
Are you selling up Neg? 

Sure am  :sad:

What you doing with the CHs, taking them off before you sell?
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2009, 10:33:28 am »
i would have thought they're going on the next car! ;)
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Re: Reliability of our MKV's
« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2009, 10:48:26 am »
Quote from: VeeDubDan on May 08, 2009, 10:32:54 am
Quote from: neg on May 08, 2009, 10:05:37 am
Quote from: VeeDubDan on May 08, 2009, 09:02:56 am
Are you selling up Neg? 

Sure am  :sad:

What you doing with the CHs, taking them off before you sell?

Yep, worth more off the car.  Will put on the wife's new car or sell - or maybe keep.  undecided at the mo.


Edit: unless I find a buyer who wants them on the car
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