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Yeah, his main issue was with Volkswagen as a company, as well as him believing that they were producing poorly engineered vehicles. He did say that he thought it was a good car. He makes some good points, but he comes across as being a grumpy conspiracy theorist.
In any case, I have had two Jetta (2006 model and the 2012 model that I still have). With the 2006 model I had to take it in under warranty for an ABS issue (the brakes would sometimes do a really light ABS style pulsing action when I was braking -sounds worse than it was, it was barely noticeable). They fixed it in 1 day and it was fine after that. The second issue was that the accelerator pedal started to make a clicking sound when pressed to the floor. The car was out of warranty by 2 months but they did a good will and replaced it at no cost. With the 2012 model it has been fine, except one of the rear door locking mechanisms has started to play up and I suspect the module will need to be replaced. It's now well out of warranty so I will have to pay to have it fixed (annoying timing with the wait for the Tiguan underway). My experience has been pretty decent, not amazing, but definitely not bad.
I do have a friend who had the same model 2006 Jetta as me (147FSI). When it was about 4.5 years old the DSG failed and VW refused to do a good will on it (1.5 years out of warranty). He tried to claim that it was a known issue but they refused to do anything for him, and used the argument that he didn't have it served by them and that the third party may not have serviced the DSG properly. It cost him quite a few grand to fix, before selling it and vowing to never by a VW again. It certainly made me think twice before buying my second Jetta. The trouble I had was finding a car that had the same power and driving dynamics at the same price point, so I settled for another Jetta anyway. Pretty much the same thing applies to my purchase of a Tiguan. Other manufacturers in this price point have under powered engines and nothing exciting in the tech department.
I have to say that in this day and age, a 3 year warranty is pretty poor. Mitsubishi were offering a 10 year limited warranty, and Hyundai offer a 7 year warranty. VW need to catch up. Now that VW have fixed price servicing, the best advice I can give anyone is to service it through VW, because if anything fails outside the warranty period, you'll have zero chance of them doing a good will if you haven't serviced the vehicle through VW.
In any case, I have had two Jetta (2006 model and the 2012 model that I still have). With the 2006 model I had to take it in under warranty for an ABS issue (the brakes would sometimes do a really light ABS style pulsing action when I was braking -sounds worse than it was, it was barely noticeable). They fixed it in 1 day and it was fine after that. The second issue was that the accelerator pedal started to make a clicking sound when pressed to the floor. The car was out of warranty by 2 months but they did a good will and replaced it at no cost. With the 2012 model it has been fine, except one of the rear door locking mechanisms has started to play up and I suspect the module will need to be replaced. It's now well out of warranty so I will have to pay to have it fixed (annoying timing with the wait for the Tiguan underway). My experience has been pretty decent, not amazing, but definitely not bad.
I do have a friend who had the same model 2006 Jetta as me (147FSI). When it was about 4.5 years old the DSG failed and VW refused to do a good will on it (1.5 years out of warranty). He tried to claim that it was a known issue but they refused to do anything for him, and used the argument that he didn't have it served by them and that the third party may not have serviced the DSG properly. It cost him quite a few grand to fix, before selling it and vowing to never by a VW again. It certainly made me think twice before buying my second Jetta. The trouble I had was finding a car that had the same power and driving dynamics at the same price point, so I settled for another Jetta anyway. Pretty much the same thing applies to my purchase of a Tiguan. Other manufacturers in this price point have under powered engines and nothing exciting in the tech department.
I have to say that in this day and age, a 3 year warranty is pretty poor. Mitsubishi were offering a 10 year limited warranty, and Hyundai offer a 7 year warranty. VW need to catch up. Now that VW have fixed price servicing, the best advice I can give anyone is to service it through VW, because if anything fails outside the warranty period, you'll have zero chance of them doing a good will if you haven't serviced the vehicle through VW.
I took delivery on 11 March 2017.
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