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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: kniterider on 28 October 2003, 20:16
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seems rather quite on the mk4 front!, hope any mk4 members find the uk mk4 website a good nosey for any things we cant cover on here but hey dont dessert us!, after all bet this was where you all found the link for it!, i use the mk4 web site for a few things but only go on there when i need to find something out! always on here for the people and the banter! so come one wheres all the mk4 golf gti member gone on here?, hope theyve not all gone on holiday to FRANCE! lol
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to be honest im quite pissed of with my golf this is what has been happening to my golf since i purchased it in june
electric sunrrof f******
timing belt on its way out
electric window pooped out
lights on the dash stopped working in july
when they did fix leccie window doorlocks mysteriously fu**** up
key does not open drivers door
alarm goes off constantly
waited two weeks for service light to be reset
waited a further two weeks for my airbag to be sorted
reverse lights been coming on when selecting first gear since spetember still waiting
interior trim falling apart
and this is what i can remember
give me a mark 1 anyday >:( >:( >:(
oh and have used more oil than a frigging juggernault
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Maaaaan, you sure there isn't a Peugeot badge hiding under the VW one!!! LOL!!
Sorry to hear you're having grief with it buddy. You still under warranty?
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begining to wonder m8...as we speak its in to get these things sorted but will have to wait and see
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hope vw sort all them there problems out partner!!!!!!!!!, lol
yeah i know some mk4s have had probs but as these probs get fixed and ured there gonna live on to be the same as a mk1 is now hey when the mk9 comes out the mk4 is going to be well old! all faults should be fixed and shell be a classic!
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the only probs ive had with mine are the usual, passenger window regulator gone(window fell into door0 and leaky boot cause washer pipe fell off internal plumbing to wiper!) other than that mines been fine dosent use a drop of oil, well in six months any way! sorry to hear your avin bother
get vw to sort it!
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my window fell into the door also another common fault im led to believe if golfs are so good why can they make one when nothing goes wrong...as for vw i bought mine through a vauxhall dealership so at the moment i have to wait like a muppet untill vauxhall vw and the warranty company fight it out argh!!! >:(
thinking of selling her getting a family car and buying a mark 1 for the weekend too much hassel
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I've had none of the faults you guys are experiencing, but with the mileage I pile onto mine (42k since July last year) I'm guessing a few will rear their head.
I had two things go wrong within a month of getting the car - Had a brand new drivers seat fitted after it kept clonking going round bends at speed (no weight jokes please, I'm a sensitive type!!)
The other was a new set of carpets, after the original set were ruined by a cinked air conditioning drain tube leaking fluid INTO the car!
That said, my driver and passenger windows now drop to different levels, and the drivers one has become a bit noisy, so I think I'll be seeing my dealers friendly face before November is out!
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yeah that sounds like the window regulator on its way out!, this is my 1st winter with me mk4 and im sh!tting it about opening windows if theres been a bit of ice! dont wanna snap me regulators. there is a metal clips set now available to replace the plastic ones which snap ( check uk-mk4s website) this happened is u.s and vw recalled 800,000 cars and replaced plastic clips withmetal ones, vw uk say there isnt enough of a problem to recall all mk4s! pants i say, i got stung ?130 i think when mine went, yet the part was on ?63! some people have got new metal clip sets from vw so they may be available now, about 330 and well worth it, totally ruined my day when my window fell into my door!
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kniterider the window ruined my day when i was flying down the damn motorway and it fell in the door then i had to drive 200 miles home with no window i can honestly say my knackers were freezing
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Kniterider , Can you let me know the full e-mail address of the website where you can get hold of metal window regulator clips. My Mk4 GTI 20V non turbo has just dumped my drivers door window into the door and I want to fix the problem so it never happens again !
I've only just bought this car and joined the website and was over the moon with it till this happened , seems like many other MK4 owners have sufferred the same fate !
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yep common mk4 fault, go to your nearest vw garage and ask them to order a set, some one on the ukmk4 site got them from vw so they should be openly available, ill scan the mk4 site and try to get the part no.s, and check the parts when you get them, if there plastic dont accept them and ask for the metal ones.
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Thanks Kniterider , went to my local VW dealer , had a good moan at them , which made me feel better.
Had a look at the regulators they had in stock and they had been modified with cast metal parts around the clips so I took the plunge ......? 59 quid each including VAT , which I thought wasn't too bad.
So I asked them why the price had seemed to come down from what I had seen quoted on this forum and at Euro car parts ( ?80 ) and they said the reason was because they had commisioned so many to be made, due to the fault ................ that's an admission of being at fault if I ever heard one !
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good glad you had a moan at em! its about time they recalled all the mk4's and replaced with metal clips! (as usa did!), well aleats theyed addressed the problem by selling the modified regulators! that reminds me must get mine done!