« Reply #5 on: 29 March 2009, 10:55 »
I bought my GTI last year and as it was coming up to 3 years old the dealer just gave me 3 months VW extended warranty on top of the remaining warranty. I looked into extending that and decided against as like the OP the cost vs the cover wasn't great. I'm sure the cover on VWs was a lot better a few years ago and VW have downgraded their warranties, as I don't remember issues like this from some of my other cars although most have been newer and had a longer chunk of factory warranty left so I may be talking rubbish.
I wasn't overly impressed with the VW used car warranty past the 3 year mark and it doesn't give you much confidence on VW UKs expectations for the car!
I think the rubbish warranty situation on top of the fact the car needs a cam belt at 4 years makes Mr Chung's comment seem like quite a good option!!! Shame that I personally couldn't stretch to a 09 model and certainly not at mk6 GTI prices!!!
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