Since owning the Fabia I was always meant to believe that vag were bullet proof and never go wrong apart from usual wear and tear and intervals etc..

But since owning a skoda I've found that there's more " common problems" than any other car vag and dare I say impreza

My query is has skoda ever took responcibility and fix any free of charge or recalled any as I've found the following so far and waiting for a reply from skoda on:-

Turbo siren

Left steering for no reason

Leaking rear door

Boost pipe popping off

Window deciding to do what it likes

Gearbox issues

Egr blockage /problems

Expansion tank problems

These are just from this forum has skoda ever sorted or recalled any of these problems back??

As after a few months of ownership these niggly problems are starting to get on my nerves tbh as little problems lead to big ones and lots of money

Corrected typo in title

Every car has its common faults, how else would they make money? If they were fault free then there would be no money to be made in it

If there were massive issues with the fabia (when they were under warranty) then there would have been skoda recalls for the problem parts.. like the injector recalls for octavia vrs pd 170 etc...

All cars have there slight reliability issues but put it this way VAG cars are always worth repairing whereas with ford/vauxhaul/fiat etc... uv got to think is it worth me spending X amount on this car when its guna be worth F all in a couple of years...

The engines themselves are pretty bomb proof its when they start putting sh#te on for emmisions like egrs + dpfs + egr coolers etc.. thats why VAG has become less reliable.. but its happening to all manufacturers so the grass def isnt greener on the other side m8

Not to mention brake switches (very common)

Coolant temp sensors

Crappy console bushes

Sticking rear calipers

Snapping load wires/alternator wires

Thinking about it fabias are pretty ****e actually.

Not to mention brake switches (very common)

Coolant temp sensors

Crappy console bushes

Sticking rear calipers

Snapping load wires/alternator wires

Thinking about it fabias are pretty ****e actually.

Agreed yeah I agree with previous post every car maker has its faults but I've never had that with vw BMW even my imprezas had minimal faults apart from 2 major hg problems but had been driven Hard and had good milage on but they were m reg a 54 plate shouldn't have so many problems as surely by now the Ammont of money they spend on r@d they would have relised these problems as do thu not research the car for a year before putting into production?? Surely some of these would have been notified???

cost of rectification vs cost of re-call

you would have thought they would have learned by the time the fabia 2 and citigo came out.

Have a look at this GOLF 5 forum.

http://www.volkswagenforum.co.uk/f33/

Seems this VAG product has a few problems too. How many of these issues you list have affected your own car?

142.5k miles and from that list all mine suffers from is the turbo whine, even that isn't to noticeable and only in the first few minutes of driving. *touches wood*

Really cannot fault VAG vehicles and I've owned a few, they've all been TDI's

Forgot to mention crap turbo's as well. Cant belive how many fail before 80,000 miles.

How can ford make 100psi transits which are quite nippy for a van! That get ragged and abused everyday for over 180k miles, yet the turbo is still fault free??

Look at the stripped teeth on the flywheel that the transit is known for, that's not a cheap fix so it's all well and good preaching that brand x doesn't do this but each and every one of them has issues. You pay your money and take your pick.

Genuine production and design issues are *sometimes* fixed eg the Teves MK60 ABS unit on cars with ASR, VAG eventually stepped up and offered a free fix after they got sick of the media attention, same with the HG on the MPi and to some extent the coil packs on other engines. 80k out of a turbo isn't unreasonable though I agree it's not ideal.

Im not saying the transit is perfect, well known for flywheels, fuel pumps (cost over £1000 to replace) wheel bearings and others.

Just pointing out that the turbos seem solid so why dont vw use them? Are they running lower bar or somthing.

I see what you mean about the mk5 golfs also!

When I had the type 2 camper, I used to get sick off being told how "they don't build them like they used to" usually followed by "How old is she?"

The reply was always "Registered in 1976 .............................. but most of her is 1996 / 1997"