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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
Water pump you will want to raise the engine to gain access to the water pump. I suggest you use a metal impeller replacement and not a plastic one like the factory original.
Pros: metal impeller replacement
Cons: plastic factory original
Vehicle:
Volkswagen Corrado
I had a 2012 VW CC EA888 that went through 3 water pumps in 10K miles. The latter two covered under the 1st’s repair warranty. The repair shop on the third one went with a non-OEM metal water pump instead of the OEM plastic variety. I paid the difference which was I think about $80 and that pump held.
Pros: metal pump held
Cons: OEM pump failed
Vehicle:
Volkswagen
Mileage: 10000 km
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
Here’s my experience with the 2019 for what it’s worth:
Bought a 2019 with 5.0, xlt with 20k miles for $41k in Aug 2022.
-Water pump and vct’s replaced at 50k miles.
-New engine at 98k miles due to oil consumption (2 dealerships and 4 months later). Replaced in Aug of 2024
-102k miles the trans started acting funny, fully grenading at 112k miles. Replaced Feb of 2025
-126k miles and the transmission cooler fails midway through a 3hour trip with the pop up camper and family in tow.
Cons: transmission cooler fails
Vehicle:
Ford
Mileage: 50000 km
The water pump was defective as well upon diagnostic. Leak in coolant as well. 2022 with 20k miles.
Cons: defective, coolant leak
Vehicle:
Ford Bronco
Mileage: 20000 km
The part they had sent to replace for a recall leaked all of the coolant out. Luckily the tech caught it and ordered another part.
Cons: leaked all coolant
Vehicle:
Ford Bronco
Had my water pump go out around 29K miles this past winter. My coolant was very low and my heat was working properly. Luckily I was still under warranty. Keep an eye on that water pump. They’re notorious for failing.
Cons: notorious for failing, coolant low
Vehicle:
Ford Bronco
Mileage: 29000 km
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