I'm sure they have forums for them too...just saying.
This.
I am personally sick of the very, very vocal minority that continues to come here, and squawk, and bash VW. If you don't like it, or have anything positive to contribute, move on. Either discuss facts and solutions, real data, or failure and prevention analysis.
If you don't own a VW, and don't like their cars, why are you here?
Also - how long is long enough? 120K obviously isnt. is 150K? I've seen people mention wanting warranties to 250K. Really? A mechanical part, you want warrantied to 250,000 miles?
While I understand the concern for a high repair bill / vehicle life ending expense, the fact is, no manufacturer, not VW, MB, Chevy ford, toyota or anyone, will warranty a mechanical part like a fuel pump to 250K miles. While I feel 150K would have been a more reasonable number, at what point do we say it's enough, or isn't?
The problem isnt the pump taking a crap at 150K miles, its the damage it does to the fuel system afterwards, and the associated cost with repairing it. The failure is catastrophic from a monetary standpoint. This is a poor design, where failure wasn't taken into account. There should be / should have been some filter system (like the 2 micron) that catches the carnage before it finds its way into everything. There isn't. There won't be. No company is going to spend R&D money on such a thing for a previous generation vehicle, across 4 model years (or so).
If you don't like that, sell the car. If you don't like VW and their new models don't "excite", buy something else. If youre willing to take the 0.5-1.0% risk that this is shown to be, then drive the car.
Do your jurisprudence, add lubricity additives, and whatever else you feel you need to.
What would actually be helpful? A Mileage tracker for CR TDI's 09-14 (and beyond) with documented trouble free miles, coupled with data on what breaks , and when, at 120K and beyond. This way we could generate our own failure analysis (bathtub curve) and what to expect, and as a community, develop our own preventive maintenance suggestions.
I'll start. I drove my 2011 DSG JSW for 116K miles. I had no problems, other than a single glow plug. Traded it in on a 2015, becasue I liked and wanted it. High mileage data is important to understanding failures at 120k, and beyond.