Issues seen in the 1st week of a cars life on the road!

[Mr_F]

Just reading the other thread from naa and wondered what issues people have seen on a brand spanking new car from a VW forecourt?  Since had 4k+ trouble free miles apart from an annoying rattle that I haven't had time to re-seat the air vents.

I'll start:-

Oil Pressure Sensor, Towed back to dealer and fixed rapidly!

[p3eps]

My current Golf hasn't have any problems really apart from the bonnet sitting slightly out of line.  The mechanic opened it, and twisted it a little.  Fits perfectly now.

My previous Golf ED30 however....

On the second day of ownership, the passenger door deadlocked itself!  They kept the car for almost 2 weeks and gave me a Polo whilst they fixed it.  Whilst fixing it, they totally wrecked the inner door card.  I got the car back, but had to wait another 2 weeks for a new door card.  They also swapped over the front grill as it had a massive scratch on it from new too.

Other than that - I had no problems for the 20 months ownership until some tw@t ran into me and wrote it off!

[Jonny_D_1987]

My golf is 3 in February and dont even ask me about my issues. Its been into volkswagen several times and ive just wrote a 4 page letter to the UK Director, seriously pissed off.

[SRGTD]

My current Golf hasn't have any problems really apart from the bonnet sitting slightly out of line.  The mechanic opened it, and twisted it a little.  Fits perfectly now.

I also had a slightly misaligned bonnet (and grille). Fixed quickly by the dealer. Other than a slight intermittent buzzing from the passenger side of the dashboard (I turn up the stereo volume so I can't hear the buzzing!), no problems in 5 months of ownership.

[naa]

Think Sat Nav has now been fixed.  I think I mentioned before that when I picked up new car I was told that the Sat Nav unit in it was faulty - the screen kept flickering.  The garage ordered a new one which they fitted on Wednesday.  Unfortunately, when I went to pick it up later in the day I found the screen just showed white not the colour screen and the display in front of the steering wheel didn't display navigation when it was set. 

I was given a courtesy car, and to their credit, the garage fixed the problems and delivered it back to me (127 miles) today. 

Other problem was the steering wheel was slightly misaligned - down on the right - which is hopefully now fixed.

Can't believe that a car can be shipped with these problems.  Don't VW do quality control any more?

My very first Golf - a GT TDI - some years ago - broke down on first drive when I was 150 miles from home - the coolant hose had become detached.   

[p3asa]

I hope they brought it back on a trailer?!?
I know what I'd be doing if I had a GTI or GTD to deliver 127 miles away   

[mfl]

Air-conditioning compressor died after 2 days, in the middle of an aussie summer  then took them 3 weeks to replace.