Thirded - I couldn't have put it better myself.tractorman wrote: Don't believe the "legendary" VW reliability thing - it's a legend based on the Beetle vs other 60's cars
Actually, I'm glad that everything in life isn't as reliable as a VW, it'd be chaos if it were.
Bought my son a Mk4 VW Polo a year ago, it was a major bargain and irresistable at that price. It came with a pack of history, showing that in its 88,000 mile history it had had a LOT of problems....
He's done about 2,000 miles in it, and in that time it's had two engine management faults, a replacement starter motor (this is now the third it's had) and now it needs a replacement gearbox, which will cost us around £800 all in to do.
By modern car standards this simply isn't good enough, I'd expect any modern car to do 150 - 200k before needing things like starters and gearboxes.
We'd have bought a Micra for him if this hadn't come available at a silly low price (it was a friend of my wife's, they virtually gave it to us). At least a Micra would have been reliable!
You will always get those who say that their VW has been perfectly OK, but that also applies to almost any other manufacturer these days, it's certainly not been my experience and there's an army of others who will agree!
I feel strongly about the myth of VW reliability - can you tell?