VAG - ABS Failures ... major issue!
 

Interesting, considering they rant and rave about their quality products!!

This part is failing with amazing regularity - at a staggering cost to the unfortunate owner of £1500!! :eek:

VW Golf ABS failure - Telegraph

VAG reliability is a myth ! I KNOW this unfortunately :(

those two words do not belong ANYWHERE on the same planet together. Anyone who's ever had a Dub derivative will tell you this.
:(

Agree ! I had a VW Corrado for 13 years :cuckoo: and it never had less than five concurrent faults, at least ! The money I spent keeping it roadworthy would easily have funded a Scoob many years before I saw the light and got one. Now the Scoob's gone and I own two Skodas, and they have an ever-growing list of faults.

I know that feeling well enough, If my car has no faults at any particular point in time, it gives me the heebies.. i just know its plotting to develop one just at the time i dont really want it to.

Its all part of the Master-Plan thought up between Adolf and Ferdinand.;)

Could be worse, it could have chocolate pistons.... oh.... sorry :D

Bmw are no better IMO, swirl flaps failure, failing alloys etc never admiting theres a problem.

Rubbish, utter rubbish.

My old man has had VAG cars (Audi) for the last 12 years or so. Not one has had any fault whatsoever.

I've had my Golf for a year and a half now. Not a single thing has gone wrong with it. So much so, that i've ordered a new VW.

Every manufacturer has at some point had to sanction a recall for something or other. Or maybe some cars just seem to be the ones that always go wrong.

I've owned Fords, Renaults, Peugeot's and Subaru's. Each one has had some kind of fault. Indeed the Subaru needed not just the rear suspension changing under warranty, but the front too.

Up untill last month, people on here would no doubt be saying, if it's reliability you want, buy a Toyota. You wouldn't now, would you?

I had this on one of my cars at the same time as an airbag problem (also common) -was a skoda

The paid 60% towards the bill- VAG will pay 100% on cars less than 4 years old and less than 100k miles is pushed.

Honest Johns take on ESP problems - BRISKODA.net - The Skoda Forum and Community

Steve

The joys of VAG ownership; I returned after 4 years in the wilderness and got a new Golf VI as a company car - After 20 kms the tyre pressure warning light came on.

I almost didn't check the tyres visually as guess what? A sensor fault.


Nik

such a contradiction.
im not saying (unlike you) that other cars dont have their own problems, and Im also not necessarily talking about recalls.. Im from a Dub background and have always owned predominantly these types of vehicles, so can only speak on issues i know of. and as i said... **MY CAR**
(Im talking about issues that my car has NOW).

you and your family must have fell really lucky if none of you have ever had a problem with any VW owned by you.
have you written and mentioned this to VW? they may want to use you in their publicity blurb.:rolleyes:

Is this when the brake pedal goes rock hard and you lose all your retardation?
There was an audi at work which did this every now and again, really quite scary when you're approaching a queue of stationary traffic....
astraboy.

Our GTI over it first 45 months has had more faults than any other car we've had at any age. Including a £1500 ABS/ESP failure just out of warranty which the dealer did pay 100% of after some negotiation.

I must be a lucky one having owned a polo, four golfs, an S3 and my current A4, all of which have been faultless.

Nik

My Subaru used to do that (ABS/front brake fault). Ironically it met with the rear end of an Audi that DID stop. :lol1: (I laugh now, but I didn't laugh at the time :( )

You have to take honest John with a bit of salt; A few people report a similar problem then all of a sudden a whole car model is condemned. Bit like Imprezas and MAF failures, which funnily enough Honest John doesn't even mention. Yet he mentions a clutch on the alternator on later models - Impreza alternators don't have clutches :wonder: Charge rate is regulated via the voltage regulator :rolleyes:

The 4 people I know with vw/seat/skoda's have had problems with them, one a low mileage 2ltr TDI leon, injector failure just outside the 3 year warranty, 900 quid to replace :eek:
One just bought a vw from the main dealer, 2 weeks later and piston through the block :(
The skoda owner only had one issue with injectors at 140k miles, not bad for a 3 year old car ;)
The last one is a vw bora, no engine issues, just the rest falling apart lol

VW reliability is a myth.

Tony:)

The more and more that things are built to a price, the more potential for it all to go tits up.

This kind of thing will happen more and more in the future as margins are squeezed.

Look at Mercedes, they used to build them like tanks! nowadays they are ****e, the amount of them we see with rust and bits of trim loose inside........

At leaset Toyota acknowledged the fact!

+1 I've had the misfortune to own a Golf and a Polo and both were utterly unreliable with constant faults. My 03STI on the other hand has covered over 80,000 miles, 45,000 of which at over 400bhp and (touch wood) I have not had a single problem of any description whatsoever. I'm not saying Subarus are the best thing since sliced bread, but it does irritate to hear this myth about VAG reliabilty perpetuated over and over...