I heard from a friend (mechanic) who has another friend which is VW dealer, don't dare to go office and everyday headache because got fucked upside down by customers everyday.
Even received plenty lawyer letters. Think he's gonna give up VW dealership soon.

These conti are designed to fail. A water pump in a Japanese car is made of solid aluminium, can run well into 300-400,000km range.

Conti water pump is made of plastic housing, even rotor blade too
How could you use plastic in a place of high heat, constant pressure and vibration and expect it not to fail ??
So their engineers have planned the failure of material ahead, the water pump sure fail right about 5years.

Mechatronics unit controller board which is an electronic board constantly get cooked by hot temperatures 80-100°C due to hot gear oil you think can last how long ?

I have a fren owned a E250 W212 facelift, spend RM60k to repair although bought new and service center say those parts doesnt cover under warranty... fulamak..
In general, German always push the latest tech into their cars, it is common to have certain amount of reliability issues, and German spend more cost in interior and need to cut cost else where, thus you can find plastic parts under the hood. Not only save cost but also reducing rattle sound. Plastic and rubber have less rattling sound then metal..

I have nothing against conti car, really nice to drive and refined.. just that you need a lot of love to own one... and it constantly broke my heart.. hahah

Hi, what was the repair needed for that model which need rm60k ya? My sister do had this car from brand new and im kinda interested to buy it from her.

My experience it is easy to claim warranty under mercedes sc than honda sc. Honda sc treatment/warranty claim are different from each sc, some sc are known to help customers really well for warranty claim etc

currently driving a wet clutch vw, 180k++ km ledi, no problems so far for the transmission, never change the clutch yet n oni do gearbox oil change rm600 every 60k km, soon will hav to change clutch but duno can last until how many km

Jetta ?

golf gti

Bro dont worry wet clutch very solid. Not like dry clutch. Maybe can hit 300k. So for golf gti what have you changed ? Is there something like timing chain tensioner... Mechatronic or maybe waterpump you replaced before ? These things like wear n tear easily expire

yup its super bulletproof, no issues so far for the gb, i expect it to last >200k++ km before needing to chnge the clutch, nope never change the gb mecha before, my car is a 2011 car

things i changed so far are mostly wear n tear parts
- engine mount
- tensioner, vbelt
- ignition coil, spark plugs
- water pump n hoses n tank
- suspension
- oil gasket
- charcoal filter

non wear n tear parts that spoiled n i replaced
- radiator fan
- turbocharger

Thanks for sharing. Will consider golf gti my next car. Yours is GTI mk6 or mk7. The engine is using a belt not timing chain right ?