The Itty Bitty NOVA VW Committee

[ViPER1313]

It had several small issues like Taylor’s and a few larger ones, the main one being a leaking transmission that required 5 visits at 2 dealerships to remedy.

Visit 1 - “that’s not transmission fluid, it’s engine oil from an oil change that never happened”

Visit 2 (after they cleaned it up) - “it’s leaking, but not enough to warrant a repair”.

Bitched out service manager and DM, told him my 150k mile Ford didn’t leak a drop of transmission fluid and my 3k mile VW shouldn’t either.

Visit 3 - put dye in trans to verify leak. No loaner.

Visit 4 - verify that, in fact, it was leaking . Bear in mind this was obvious from just looking at the trans case. No loaner

Visit 5 (after waiting a month for parts to come in while I still had the car) - remove / rebuild trans. It took the better part of a week and I did get an loaner.

After the transmission was rebuilt, the car had an intermittent no-start issue (which was almost certainly caused by the repair job). I gave up on that one after 2 visits (could not reproduce, no action taken) and sold the car.

Edit: this was in addition to a visit for the airbag light (my fault there), a visit for rattles and a visit for an air box that ate through my top radiator hose. 9 or 10 service visits total.