Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars?
by kjkjadksj on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:58AM
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VWs and Audis of that era were notorious for the electrical system getting haunted by ghosts. Forums are littered with threads of perplexing symptoms, engine codes, voltage readings, often no solutions either for most of these threads from userbases that are competent enough to swap engines or transmissions themselves.
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Re:Who makes the most reliable new cars?
by UniverseHacker on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:59AM
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As a longtime VW forum guy, those issues are mostly from people not knowing what they are doing and usually involve extensive water damage to the electrical harness- that can be prevented with proper maintenance. For example, there was a design flaw in some of the coolant reservoirs that cause coolant to leak into the wiring harness. If you know about this, you can look for it and catch it early or prevent it.