7500 miles
Why sell before it's even properly run in?
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Ian,
You have email. DD.
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DD - Thanks.
"Why sell before it's even properly run in?"
Reasons;
1. Shoulder surgery for SWMBO 3 months ago means she struggles to get in and out of it and reach the seatbeld, also quite wide so tricky to park meaning her shouder has to do more work.
2. Been off the road for 5 weeks in last 3 months including two new headlings and a roof system error that took three weeks to diagnose and in fixing it they damaged the car! They found damage in 2 places and I found a third, and the roof still was not working properly when it came back (hence the second headlining). She has no faith in the roof working and with no way to put it up manually . . . . . . . (VW no longer supply the emergency plastic cover that keeps the rain out while you wait for the recovery service).
3. At 30k a year and 30-35mpg it is not economical for me to give up the Honda and run it as mine.
4. Air conditioning packed up - no cool air!
So much for VW reliability!
Nice car to drive but this has been off the road more in total than all the other cars we have ever had put together (including one Renault, one Sierra which we ran for 10 years, a Morris Minor which was 11 years old when we sold it, and two others which have each passed 90k).
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Just got an e-mail from SWMBO . . . .
" Had 10 goes to fasten the seat belt this morning and it took quite a while before I could release it at this end. Considered ringing VW assist but it now seems to be working."
She has been driving it for a year (less the time VW have had it) so I don't think it is user error.
I pity whoever gets the car!
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Why sell it? - I'd be suggesting to VW that they bought the car back with that litany of faults.
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Why sell it? - I'd be suggesting to VW that they bought the car back with that litany of faults.
I guess they would buy it back at market value - their dealers valuation was not that complimentary!
So much for VW strong residuals!
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So much for VW strong residuals!
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I thought that there was a wait for these, but I work for a large company who have a contract with sixt to supply hire cars. They have an office on our site due to the volume. They now have several EOS's in the fleet and are hiring them out, sometime in lieu of focus / golf, at the same rate.
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EOS - 12-13 week wait
Corsa - up to 8 (yes - eight) weeks wait!
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I would think the 12 week lead time on an EOS is because they are batch built RHD and built to each customers spec. A base model is just that with dealers heavily incentivised to sell extras. The Volvo 70 series was the first to use this type of technology allowing a platform to be buillt around the customer and the ablity for a RHD to follow a LHD car etc.
Where as most production lines still require a certain amount of down time to reset machines etc when switching between RHD and LHD.
A waiting list in this case isn't the same as demand. Although the two usually go together.
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It only had three faults - one of them twice!
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