aja8888
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In my previous 2005 Passat wagon, the BSM was done at 60K. Then I drove it 70K more miles and sold the car. The new owner has it now at ~150K and it's running fine, except he told me recently the transmission is shot.
Why???bump....
I think VW wants to have sales in this country to maintain its international brand rating and status. Other than that, not a huge corporate goal. I am sure, like OH states, they are doing well, especially with China sales.
On another note, the longer a car company can hold off on a recall, the more cost effective it is. How many people do you know that will bring their Cobalt in for the GM recall? If VW was to crater at this time on the BSM issue, how many would actually roll into a dealer for that recall?
You mean the ignition key falling out causing the air bag not firing problem in an accident that involved 13 or more (possibly 26) deaths, I assume. Even NHTSA sat on their hands on that one since the deaths started being reported a decade ago.It usually takes blood on the highway to get NHTSA to force a recall. The GM airbag thing involves I think 11 cases. With over a million vehicles involved @ $$$ Airbag + labor, it could get quite expensive and thats why GM is attempting to skid on this one and say its the "old GM" problem, not theirs.
From what I read, claims or potential claims made in the pre-banruptcy years are not the responsibility of the current GM company (New GM). The old company exists but probably have a mile long list of claimants that will probably never be paid.Isn't the current GM, LLC or whatever they are called today, skated out on the old company's responsibilities, and those have fallen on the US gov't? Seems like I read that somewhere.
I agree with this. From a strategy perspective, this makes the most sense. I'm just glad that mine was 100% paid for. I was one of the lucky few, but by the same token, it did cost me the value of an extended warranty.And those still on the road are between 8 and 10 years old. Ours turns 10 this year. It has 267k km on it and is starting to feel its age.
Mine is converted but assuming it wasn't converted and it tooefed at this point in its life, it's unrealistic to expect any kind of recall at this stage. Old cars quit on the highway for any number of reasons, and a balance shaft drive fail is no different. The HPFPs on common rails cause the same issue: dead on road. The problem is that this is happening still to new cars, hence all the NHTSA attention. That, plus there's way more of them. Yet VW still has not issued a recall, probably because there's no specified series of "bad ones". They die randomly, and the replacement parts are identical.
VW missed the boat on the BS issue, because there is a redesigned module, that should have been part of a recall. But it would have been one hell of an expensive recall. Assume (at VW shop rates) about $2500 per unit, for 10,000 cars (assuming some attrition), that's $25m. It was probably better policy to deal with it on a one-on-one issue. Ours was replaced by a VW dealer with 75% participation by VW Canada, at 181k km (about 110k miles). It required months of negotiations.
At this point VW will laugh at anybody trying to get reimbursement for this issue.