I'm thinking he has an early 2000s Passat. I know it's been a while. He bought it new, and had a lot of problems, mostly build and design issues. I remember the window regulator issue, as it occurred enough times that they got pretty adept at jamming his rear windows in the closed position.
He told me that he heard all sorts of complaints from other owners about the window regulator issues. What amazed me was that they rarely had any in stock in the States, and if there were none, it was usually a couple of weeks before they could get any. Dan Sent from my iPad > On Dec 26, 2013, at 9:32 PM, Curt Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thats probably the nicest complaint I've heard about them. I'm shocked by how > quickly they drop support for older models. 10 years is about the limit. > Fortunately the TDI specific stuff is in demand so the aftermarket has picked > up pretty well. > > TDI guys especially complain about lack of any diesel knowledge in the > dealership which is weird because 25-30% of all the cars are diesel. Stuff > like injection pumps getting replaced for a dirty fuel filter are common. > Then the IP is mistimed and the car never runs right again. There are TDI > Gurus that buy cars from the dealership for pennies after the dealer > mechanics screw them up (and the dealer takes them on trade) and flip for > good profit. > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 20:12:37 -0500 > From: Dan Penoff <[email protected]> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] VW Diesel ute > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > When my brother had a Passat he said that VW would routinely not have stock > on what he considered fairly common items, like window regulators (which his > Passat went through like popcorn at a movie theatre.) > > That is, they wouldn't have them in stock in-country! They would have to > come from Germany or Mexico os someplace like that. 2-3 weeks in many > instances. > > Dan > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
