Very Very disappoint with my new Golf 6 and Dealer

[hooba]

Proof the Golf's Quality Control is up to scratch.

[brisgtimkv]

A coupla' weeks in a Toyota (Corolla?) should cure you of them for life...unless you're an automotive philistine...Toyotas most valuable market.
Obligitary intanet anecdote...Mum was set, as in off to sign the papers, to buy an Echo a couple of years back. She was asking me what I though before she did. I STRONGLY encouraged her to stop at the VW dealer on the way and have a drive of a Polo...never made it to the Toyota dealer...

quoted for truth. i had to endure one for two weeks (insurance loaner following the murder of my beloved mkv, which was faultless over 60k km). i can live with a crappy interior, i could live with it consuming more fuel than a 2.0 tfsi pushing out 188kw. what i couldn't live with is that its passive safety (brakes, handling) were worse than the 90s 1.3 'rolla i used to drive in my younger days, as was the interior. if only had the budget for one, i'd buy a polo, a mkiv, a renault, anything else. i would rather set myself on fire and beat it out with a hammer than be stuck with one as a daily. the only car i've driven that's worse is a tiida. i wouldn't even park the thing in the garage, hoping that somehow it would burst into flames during the night and i'd be spared driving it to work.

[b0son]

Toyota is what you buy when you have no expectations from the car, nor any desire to put any thought into the selection process. It is the around-the-house tracksuit of cars.

[kaanage]

Toyota's senior designer once stated that the product of a car's individuality by its appeal to the mass market is a constant. Obviously, they're after the highest mass market appeal...

Back to the thread's subject, what is the current situation with your car, bm2amb?

[Corey_R]

Back to the thread's subject, what is the current situation with your car, bm2amb?

Probably none. ETA for the ECU was 4 weeks. I believe it was ordered on the 23rd of December, so we're still about 2 weeks away from having a conclusive update.

[Cossor]

Toyota is what you buy when you have no expectations from the car, nor any desire to put any thought into the selection process. It is the around-the-house tracksuit of cars.

So on retirement, after many years driving company provided Commodore, bought 2002Corolla. Excellent country service. Did have to have front wheel bearings replaced under warranty. Unremarkable transport

As finances improved, lashed out for 118TSI (MY11). a lot more fun to drive.

BUT tyre roar on local coarse chip bitumen roads only a bit less than Corolla. Will have to wait till tyre replacement time, so can fit quieter tyres. In fact, my daughters mkv Golf diesel trendline is quieter. Has michelin tyres.

[Transporter]

Please, stop posting off topic, this thread will get a major clean up when OP gets back to us with the update. It means that all off topic posts will get deleted.

[Ohmang]

After reading this thread what I can't get over is the time it takes for the ECU to get here... 4 weeks for a part? How big is this thing? It must be coming over by sea freight on a parts run from Germany. - NO DICE!

If it is small enough to be air freighted (ie less than 50KG) it should have been here 2 days MAX.

I would get onto VW australia about this point - how big is the item that is coming over to be replaced. 4 weeks for a component from a major company these days is ridiculous. I hope you have written a letter to VW australia. Phone calls don't count for much. They have to reply to a letter.

Could it be the fact that they have none in stock? - No chance... VW pumps hundreds of thousands of cars out each year.

I work in the medical imaging sector and if parts for a camera / xray machine need replacing and is in stock overseas, it is on next flight via fedex and we are talking large items - rings for CT scanners and xray tubes etc - 100's of kilos each.

[AJW]

Sorry Sea freight takes around 2months just like your new car.
I use Fedex & UPS from UK and Europe nearly every week on electronic and mechanical parts.
It can be anywhere from 3days to 8days.
The Fedex freight can stop in at least 4 places before it gets to Sydney.

[GolfAtom]

Gee, I hope the problem is the ECU...what if the part gets here, they install it and the problem still doesn't go away?! For a quick test couldn't they swap in an ECU from another Mk6?