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Old 12-14-2020, 06:01 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Xist View Post
So, German cars are reasonable as long as you invest in regular maintenance.

What about Fiats?
The only German car I've owned a long time was that 2003 TDI. I sold it after 10 years / 245K miles to a friend of the family. It is still running today

After about 200K miles stuff on the interior started breaking - pretty common for any car that has been heat cycling in the Alabama sun for years.

My brother had similar luck with a Jetta sedan TDI of the same vintage.


My 2014 Jetta Sportwagen is too young to have issues. To date the only repair was the sunroof seal - replaced under CPO warranty. (I hate sunroofs)
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