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I bought an FSI and it is a nice car but I did do some research on the auto box reliability.
The FSI with "Tiptronic" has a 6 speed Aisin (Aisin Seiki Co Japan) transmission. The gearbox is 'sealed' with no fluid change on the maintenance schedule.
My Golf blew its Aisin box at about 112k - before i bought it thank goodness. The job sheet said "slamming into gear"...... replace transmission.....etc...
I was told they are prone to failure, the valve body warps and this must be replaced with a new one from VW, the part is around 2.5k and the full job is about 5k+
Apparently the DSG is less expensive to fix at about 3.5k for its 'typical' failure.
Its a shame that VW have not solved their auto reliability issues. The 01M in the mk4 and most later mk3 models was notoriously unreliable (stated on Wikipedia) and difficult to overhaul I was advised.
Still they are excellent cars when everything works !
I bought an FSI and it is a nice car but I did do some research on the auto box reliability.
The FSI with "Tiptronic" has a 6 speed Aisin (Aisin Seiki Co Japan) transmission. The gearbox is 'sealed' with no fluid change on the maintenance schedule.
My Golf blew its Aisin box at about 112k - before i bought it thank goodness. The job sheet said "slamming into gear"...... replace transmission.....etc...
I was told they are prone to failure, the valve body warps and this must be replaced with a new one from VW, the part is around 2.5k and the full job is about 5k+
Apparently the DSG is less expensive to fix at about 3.5k for its 'typical' failure.
Its a shame that VW have not solved their auto reliability issues. The 01M in the mk4 and most later mk3 models was notoriously unreliable (stated on Wikipedia) and difficult to overhaul I was advised.
Still they are excellent cars when everything works !
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