Reply With QuoteYeah as I read somewhere, it's 'ridiculously overengineered'
Will get it replaced under warranty, but might have to wait until I go in for a service or have a lot of spare time
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Engineers really didn't think to make the cup holder reliable did they.
I'd take the thing back to the dealers and get them to replace it.
Last edited by Servo; 06-11-2009 at 02:48 PM.
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Yeah as I read somewhere, it's 'ridiculously overengineered'
Will get it replaced under warranty, but might have to wait until I go in for a service or have a lot of spare time
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The CD player/stereo display has stopped working this morning. tried turning it on and off many times and still no luck. Its happened before, but turning off and on has fixed it, this time hasn't worked.
I know it's a common fault from what I've seen.
Anyone found a remedy without booking it in to the service centre??
UPDATE: fixed at the moment - after some light pushing on the plastic surround it came back again.
Last edited by seangti; 07-11-2009 at 09:56 AM.
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EDIT: Removed 'bad mood' posting
Took car to the dealer this morning, the oil leak was just the underbody protective wax stuff melting, melbourne's heatwave would have contributed to this.
They fixed the cupholder
They lubricated the driver's door seal, seemed to get rid of the creaks while driving, but coming up the bumpy laneway back to work, the door was creaking like a MF. Sounds like it's gonna fall apart. I guess I have to live with it, my expectations of quality must be too high!
Last edited by tooch; 16-11-2009 at 11:31 AM.
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Not sure if this is happening to anyone else but when I normally start the car to warm up it revs around 1000rpm and then I hear a tick / click and it drops to 800rpm. It does it a few times, does anyone know what it could be? BTW this also happened before I reflashed the ECU.
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Yeah that's normal mate, I think it's some kind of idle control valve or pollution control type thing.
Mine idled a bit rough this morning when I started it though, misfired for a couple of seconds and then came good
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I thought it was something like that.
Mine's done a few weird things, like jerked crusing at 100km. I thought it was just the boost but when I tried to replicate the same thing it didn't do it. Another time I've let it idle and it reved an extra 500rpm for no apparent reason and then went back to normal. Left me scratching my head.
Now every now and again I'm getting a low whistling sound. Can't really isolate it cause it comes and goes not sure what it could be?
Last edited by Servo; 14-12-2009 at 01:11 PM.
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I had the engine coolant warning light come on the other day so I topped up the resevoir with about 100mls of distilled water.
3 days later the warning light came back on so I took it to Kloster VW yesterday and they found a small crack in the radiator.
New one should be in mid next week.
At least I still have 5 months left of my warranty.
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ahhh there are so many people with cracked Radiators. I need to get mine replaced outside of warranty after it's already been done once. I might see if VW can acknowledge a problem and replace mine as a known fault. Wish me luck.Originally Posted by cliffo
Last edited by FL00DY; 08-01-2010 at 09:15 AM.
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I would wish you luck but I just shelled out $300 for a new radiator due to the same issue.... I tried to push the known fault angle as well to no avail.
Are there any aftermarket radiators for these cars? Not going to need one for hopefully a couple years now but if its going to keep happening might be worth replacing properly next time (and I am certain there will be a next time)
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