VW Touran ABS/ESP Recall? VW's Ticking Timebomb!

bluewuss

Like many others my ESP fault came on after 3 years and 1 week. VW are still refusing to pay fully but are prepared do the work for £ 600. As it appears that other Touran have this fault how do we get VW to admit they have a known safety problem and at least pay the full cost of this replacement?

tourandave

My Esp light is on, Going to the dealers tommorow for diagnosis. I am hoping for a VW goodwill payment as out of warranty dealer advised it was a common problem.

andy8442

Hi, I've contacted Watchdog about this and they are preparing something on this topic, I'm also drafting letters to all the major motoring mags. It's all over the web is this fault. My own rough little poll suggests 80% failure on pre 07 models!

What are VW waiting for? Somebody to crash and be hurt?

harveybobbles

Yeah, a bit like Audi were with their !!!!!! CVT boxes circa 2001/2002

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

andy8442 wrote: »

The car is now an MOT failure, so the Ministry of Transport think its important enough to work correctly.

Yes but that doesnt mean they were dangeerous throughout.

By your reckoning every car on the road is dangerous as the law of logics means all are likely to be in a condition they would fail an MOT at some point.

The cars are no more a ticking timebomb than any other on the road.

tomstickland

ABS and ESP are not critical. I've never owned a car with them.

andy8442

tomstickland wrote: »

ABS and ESP are not critical. I've never owned a car with them.

The unit that has failed controls the whole braking system. I would say that what quite important!

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

andy8442 wrote: »

The unit that has failed controls the whole braking system. I would say that what quite important!

No it controls the ESP/ABS. The brakes still work.

hewhoisnotintheknow

do a protest on saturday morning in the dealership about it, all the thickos with their clapped out cars will be in there wanting their 2k off a stupidly priced car on finance, that will buck the dealer up

andy8442

I would but the dealership went bust earlier this year! I'm aiming higher with this anyway, total collapse of the VW empire!..... No not really, just maybe get them on Watchdog.