Golf MK6 2.0 DTTDi DSG

Good, very good apart from the damned rattles from the doors

In 1999, I bought a Golf Mk4 GTTDi 2.0 litre. After 18 months and 9 dealer visits to repair faults and to try and stop the door rattles (which never happened) the car was part exchanged at a £7000 loss to me. In the intervening years my Nissan Almera Sport + diesel ate up the 140,000 miles I asked it to do with aplomb; got my sanity back, no rattles, ever.
In 2010, I bought a Golf Mk6 GTTDi DSG 2.0 litre. Does lightning strike twice?? Yup, it does. How could I have been such a fool to go back? Why don't we ever learn from our mistakes?
OK, so I'm a little dramatic but it seems once a Golf, always a Golf. A year later, the car is in the dealership for the 4th and last time only because I wrote to VW finance wanting out of the deal (on lease) and sent a copy to the dealership. The man said to me that if the car needs 4 new doors to stop the rattles, that's what it will have! Huh!! We'll see.
Reliability is perfect, so far and I'm well satisfied with the car apart from those damned rattles. As far as the DSG box goes, far superior to an ordinary auto and I have had to adapt my driving methods to accommodate the box and I do believe that I am getting to be converted to the DSG.
At the end of this week I will know if I'm keeping the car or walking away as this time I have my money and not spent it all in one go on a Golf like I did before, so maybe I did learn something. Let you know what happens.

UPDATE 1

Right then, after 4 visits to the dealer, them having it for a total of 8 days, the last time for 4 days, each time telling me that the rattles have been fixed, guess what they told me this time? Yes, the rattles are no more, dead, deceased, no more, forever banished to the old cars in the sky. Hurmph, I thought and you'll never guess the damned rattles are STILL there, not so much or so loud, but still there none the same.
So, by my reckoning the garage mechanic who road tested the car with me and agreed that the rattles were bad and no wonder that I'm complaining must either be deaf, incompetent or satisfied that the rattles are now not annoying to someone who will always listen to loud music with a beat box in the boot. That is not me.
The Jetta that was given to me as a courtesy car was so quiet, I had to tap the dash just to make sure it was still there so it can be done Volkswagen, you can make cars the do not rattle.
What's next? Good question! Spent the last few days doing some investigating of my own an I'm suspecting that it's coming from the door handle, the only bit they have not touched.
I really do not want to blow the car away but it looks like the car will never be quiet and I can't put up with that so I will be going back to the garage and I may just well hand the keys back to them along with the log book and walk away from it all, then battle for my deposit back. Not sure what way to go at the moment, let you know later.

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