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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Agreed. All the complicated stuff on the mark4 1.8t is just fragile.
It seems like the early, mid 1990s stuff is just more reliable. Then at some point it seems like VW wanted to be more like audi and that other even more expensive one that no one can afford.
Right now I am driving a barrowed 1996 jetta TDi and it goes great. I offered to buy it several times over the years buy our friends don't want to sell it.
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I have owned and worked on VWs all of my life. The automatic transmission aren't great. The rubberized coating on interior buttons start to come apart after five or so years. The newer direct injection motors had some metallurgy issues with injector lobes. The 1.8t motors had carbon issues with very high mileage. Most problems that VW has get an actual recall, even for body rust up to 12 years old. TDI motors, especially the ALH are insanely reliable. Plenty of TDI owners proudly drive around with 400,000 miles on them with the confidence to go across the country. Once you actually learn them well, you'll realize that the people who think that they are unreliable either have never owned one, bought one used after somebody else trashed it or bought one new having a common problem which is now covered under a recall with updated parts.