Had not used the car for 7 weeks as I was recovering from an operation.
Anyway, after the first day of use, I found both the front doors (it's a five door) were sticking out 2 mm along the trailing edge. It looked as if the doors had not been shut properly. They were also letting the rain in.
This was on Christmas Eve. Called VW Assist and the very nice man arrived in 45 mins and re-aligned the doors in the pouring rain. The latches had not been tightened properly for the front doors by the VW approved bodyshop. This was because I had to have all 4 doors + bonnet re-aligned when I first got the car in March 2010.
What surprises me is that I have yet to see a Mk6 Golf with perfectly aligned doors. There are 7 on my street and every one has bonnet and door alignment issues. Not very cofidence inspiring.
Have Mk5 owners had similar issues? From the number of Mk5s I have examined, the doors seem to hang much, much better. I have been informed that VW have changed the door design paramaters for the Mk6 as the Mk5 doors were too expensive to produce.
I took my car this morning to an Independent Garage (friends of mine) who re-checked and re-aligned the doors perfectly in their workshop FOC, as VW were too busy for the next few weeks to attend to this. They also did a much better job than the VW Bodyshop.
Anyway, all's well that ends well.
