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BlueHen

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Not trying to start a flame war, but the recent lemon threads on this forum have seemed to be skewed toward the German plant (i.e. R's)..
 

BlueHen

Drag Race Newbie
Location
Delmarva
I've owned a German built B4 Passat TDI, a Brazilian built Mk4 Golf TDI, US built NMS Passat TDI, and my current Mk7 Mexican-built GTI.

The German car had the most problems: door handles and power windows constantly breaking, foam blender flaps in HVAC system disintegrated after 5 years, wheel center caps fell off, etc - diesel engine was bulletproof

Brazilian car: no issues, other than very slight oil weeping

US car: no issues, though oil reports showed lots of metal wear and going up at 40k so I traded it

Mexican car: only issue so far was a bad coil pack, which I place on the supplier
 
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