Tranny Died
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I've got a friend who's 05 Passat turbo is in Valley Imports as we speak to get another engine installed and she babies the car. She's sick to her stomache because VW may not take care of the engine under warranty because she is missing one or two oil change reciepts.
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I've owned a few German cars (3 bmws, 2 audis, 1 vw) and will say this:
- they tend to last a long time
- they tend to put up with hard driving really well
- they need a lot of regular maintenance, or else they start feeling like a non-German car (stuff stops working right, etc)
- they develop annoying quirks that slowly drive you mad, because the car is otherwise perfect
- unfortuneately, nothing else drives quite like they do, so you're kind of stuck putting up with it once you decide that's what you like.
Also - never buy a German car with an automatic transmission. Automatics are extremely rare across europe. It's only on the high end models (7 series, A8, etc) that automatics are the only gearbox... everything else defaults to a manual transmission.
At least us german car owners can snicker at Italian car owners - those guys are the real rich idiots who fix more than they drive
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weshole;177126 wrote:
I've got a friend who's 05 Passat turbo is in Valley Imports as we speak to get another engine installed and she babies the car. She's sick to her stomache because VW may not take care of the engine under warranty because she is missing one or two oil change reciepts.VW's got to be one of the worst. EVERYBODY has problems with them.
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Sorry to hear your luck, i cant ever afford a new benz, but... i have owned 2 190e mercedes' 85 still have. and an 86, used for parts, also had a 87 bmw 325is, loved that car!!, awsome, wish i still had it, that tranny went out on that,:icon_puke_l: my fault revved her above 3500 in neutral(apparently a bug no no with a zf4hp-22, no pressure bypass system in it):D rebuilt it and it is still going again, however it has a new owner, i wish id never gotten rid of it.
i have had very good luck with them, but than i do all the work on them myself, cant afford dealer repairs. lol
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