Buying a car with your heart or mind

Grumpy_chap

daveyjp said:

Skoda dealers are generally far better at customer service than VW and Audi.  In my experience VW/Audi will happily sell you a lemon and then simply forget you ever existed when a problem arises, which is why I now avoid VAG products.

You can't have a Skoda and at the same time avoid VAG products.

daveyjp

Grumpy_chap said:

daveyjp said:

Skoda dealers are generally far better at customer service than VW and Audi.  In my experience VW/Audi will happily sell you a lemon and then simply forget you ever existed when a problem arises, which is why I now avoid VAG products.

You can't have a Skoda and at the same time avoid VAG products.

I know.  I'd now avoid them all.  The history of their engineering is a litany of inherent design faults.

plumb1_2

daveyjp said:

Grumpy_chap said:

daveyjp said:

Skoda dealers are generally far better at customer service than VW and Audi.  In my experience VW/Audi will happily sell you a lemon and then simply forget you ever existed when a problem arises, which is why I now avoid VAG products.

You can't have a Skoda and at the same time avoid VAG products.

I know.  I'd now avoid them all.  The history of their engineering is a litany of inherent design faults.

Can you expand on these design faults please 

Goudy

VAG, like all manufacturers have had their moments, like the timing chain fiasco.
They continued to punch out chain links on a worn cutting machine which soon caused owners a problem and then took rather a long time to acknowledge the issue.

Getting caught with their pans down due to the emission testing workaround hasn't helped them in some peoples minds either.

Me, I have owned VW's in the past but lately I just can't see the quality in their products they are so happy to tell everyone about.
I do like the ID3 and if it was 6 or 7 grand cheaper I might be really tempted, but not becuase it was a VW, it could have a Dacia badge and I would still like it (then it probably would be 6 or 7 grand cheaper).

Back in the 80's and 90's, I would say their tag line of "if only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen" perhaps wasn't far off. 
The Mk2 Golf and the Corrado (even that was too expensive) were in my opinon far better than their rivals, like the Astra and Calibra.
Now they aren't really any different to nearly everything else. They just know they can charge more.