I currently have an early MK3 scout manual and it's been great but I'm looking at newer cars

Alot of newer cars and all post 2019 4x4 cars seem to be dsg

Read a lot online about reliability issues with mechatronics etc ,some say certain box types are better than others but in reality what sort of percentage fail ?

Looking at keeping car long term

I currently have a DQ250 (six speed wet cutch) in my Golf, and had the same box in my previous Octavia - both 100% reliable 👍

Also have a DQ200 in our Polo (seven speed dry clutch, not that you'll see one of these in a Scout) - faultless over the 40k+ miles and seven years we've had it 👍

Gaz

Good to know ,I think the bigger cars have the 250 / 381 boxes ?

Vag must of sold hundreds of thousands of cars with those boxes in I just don't want to get burnt

They have had 100,s of thosands of sales of DQ381.s. Thousands and thousands of MCU failures world wide within Warranty or out of warranty. What a shame that they choose to ignore that and it is left to other companies to refurbish MCU,s or improve them. It is a lottery sadly, even if the failures are 5% of those manufactured. Tough if you get one of the 5%.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Evolution13

Aye not a cheap fix or something I could do myself so it's putting me off a dsg