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A 525tds was my first car. Only ever had two problems with it. Heater fuse kept blowing- turned out the previous owners install of the head unit used eletrical tape which over time lead to a cable shorting out on the din cage. Water pump died - oem impeller was plastic. The replacement was metal
Pros: reliable, metal impeller replacement
Cons: heater fuse blowing, plastic impeller
Vehicle:
BMW
For me, the Golf is one of the best all-around vehicles on the market today, offering a very reasonable price point for its capabilities. I have taken my Rs to the track one day and then embarked on a 4,000 km road trip the next. I put over 100,000km on my first R (Mk7) in under a year. It saw the drag strip every Tuesday, AutoX events every Wednesday and Saturday, and HPDEs once a month. The only maintenance issues I had were a water pump replacement at 110,000km and a faulty driver's side window switch at 40,000km. Outside of that, the car didn\u2019t miss a beat.
Pros: reasonable price, great capabilities
Cons: water pump replacement, faulty switch
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 100000 km
I have a 2011 it has 125K miles stage 2 tuned still running the original water pump....
Pros: original pump durable
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 125000 km
OEM ones with version letters later than, IIRC, M at the end of the number and certainly all the later double letter ones have no issues.
Pros: no issues, reliable
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Scirocco
I've had my 2010 GTI for about a year now. I've taken it from 103k to 109k, Only issues have been plastic hoses and the water pump. Other than that its been totally fine.
Pros: mostly fine
Cons: plastic hoses, water pump
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 109000 km
We've had a 2009 GTI since new and now has 110k. In the last 16 years, we've replaced 2 water pumps, one dsg mech unit (under warranty), abs unit, pcv valve, rear main seal and in the past year, timing chain and guides as preventative maintenance.
Pros: preventative maintenance
Cons: replaced water pumps, abs unit
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 110000 km
I have no idea how there isn't a class action against VW for those shoddy waterpumps tho. Had to do it on my one and literally every VW owner I've spoken to has had it be a problem
Cons: shoddy quality, common problem
My GTI’s water pump shat itself around 60k kilometres too :( going strong since but it’s a very common fault unfortunately
Pros: going strong since
Cons: very common fault
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Golf
Mileage: 60000 km
Fuckt this shit why can’t VW the fix the root cause of the problem which is the goddamn shitty plastic waterpump?
Cons: poor plastic quality
This has happened to my husband. He drives 2021 m340i with 17k miles. Water pump exploded last night.
Cons: water pump exploded
Vehicle:
BMW
Mileage: 27359 km
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