German cars definitely have better built interiors, the Giulietta we have feels decidedly low rent. But the oily bits are decent, except for how they have laid out things like the filters which makes it hard to service.
I was in a Cupra Born the other day and it was like the MKVIII, lots of hard plastics and scratchy feels.
If you've ever had to drain a washer fluid bottle in a MKVIIx Golf, you'll take the lay out comment back. It's an awful assembly that routes through all the dead space in the engine. Classic example of design by designer not mechanic. Still don't know why they don't provide a drain plug and provide an owner accessible point. Well, I do but I don't like it.
Why not just pump or syphon the water out?
What happened in the end but it would have been easier to just put a hole at the lowest point in the system.
