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I don’t have experience with the Tiguan specifically, but my experience with various other modern VWs is that they are the fusion of German engineering and Chrysler quality. I recently had a Jetta that failed state inspection because it had a CEL on for a radiator fan that was working normally, but had to be replaced for about $1100 to get the light off. Just about every VW my work has ever sold needed a catalytic converter and cheaper aftermarket ones never worked good enough to keep the CEL off, dealer parts only. Aside from normal mechanical problems, those are the other kinds of things you might run into. It just seems like they need dumb repairs that don’t make sense.
Since about 2000, VW has just been making a different kind of car. It was like when they switched from RWD air-cooled to FWD water-cooled engines in 1975 and left the old ways behind, for better or for worse.
Yes, when VW went watercooled they blew it, totally, although that Diesel bug was pretty neat. Wouldn’t have the rest of them though, not my style. If I want a complicated a German car, I will just buy a Porsche. I have owned both air and water cooled Porsche cars with horizontal engines as well as Aircooled VWs with goofy 40 horse motors, and now that I have none of that stuff, I don’t miss them at all although neat cars to drive, the frequent repairs are not worth it. Sold my 57 oval window sunroof beetle about a year ago and swore off european cars forever after that. Sometimes I when I see a late model 911 or something in traffic I have to just tell myself NO I cannot go back down that dark path I walked for to many years.
[quote=”andrewbutton442″ post=132425]Yes, when VW went watercooled they blew it, totally, although that Diesel bug was pretty neat. Wouldn’t have the rest of them though, not my style. If I want a complicated a German car, I will just buy a Porsche. I have owned both air and water cooled Porsche cars with horizontal engines as well as Aircooled VWs with goofy 40 horse motors, and now that I have none of that stuff, I don’t miss them at all although neat cars to drive, the frequent repairs are not worth it. Sold my 57 oval window sunroof beetle about a year ago and swore off european cars forever after that. Sometimes I when I see a late model 911 or something in traffic I have to just tell myself NO I cannot go back down that dark path I walked for to many years.[/quote]
For reference Porsche are owned by VW 😉
The tigian runs of the pq35 platform which is the same platform vw use for most of the small to midrange cars from the golf passat audi a3 and q3 to the altea’s toledo’s and leons which i work on.
The platform Is a tried and tested as our the engines, sure there extremely complicated to work on but honestly there just a few years ahead of other manufacturers. and a lot of the complications are due to not having either the correct tools or the correct information, We get a sizeable chunk of work from other garages who have bodged repairs due to using incorrect methods that have cost the customer a lot of money.
It’s apples and oranges thought if people want to compare build quality from 30 years ago then sure it’s gone down hill but so has merc bmw bentley and every other car manufacturer.
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