Started my Golf R SE this morning and coolant started leaking on the driveway. Lift bonnet and a critter (probably a possum as the stools were too big for a rat) had chewed a hole in the coolant hose that exits from the front of the engine cover and almost through the expansion tank overflow hose. Rang my local dealer and guess what?, none available in Australia and it will be at least 2 weeks to get them from Singapore! Rang local Audi dealer and they couldn’t help as they come from same place.

I’d imagine there a LOT of Audi/VW/Skoda cars with the same pipes yet VW Australia is happy to leave a customer stranded for two weeks because they keep insufficient stock. Rang VW Customer (I don’t) Care and of course they blamed COVID which I consider a poor excuse.

I modified a hose from Burson’s to keep me going as I need my car for work but I think that VW Australia need to seriously get their act together and stock sufficient levels of these sorts of parts.