I honestly don’t think they care. The tech who was standing nearby when I made a joke to my service advisor telling him it was the first time I’d been there in 3 years NOT for a thermostat housing leak on this car just started laughing hysterically and said “yep, we fix those basically no matter what.” Service director has said the same to me. Obv your dealer may be dicks.
Not surprising.
So do i just reply to that thread of my info and all or go on that link and fill form first?2015 GTI 63k, at 45k brought it in to get it pressure tested and it passed twice. Vw refuses to cover it under warranty because it passed even though you could visually see dried coolant dripping down the block. Service advisor said “I gotta be honest with you man, it kinda looks like mud to me”, what a load of bs. Didn’t pursue any future action because the tech who did the pressure tests goes to my church and my uncle personally knows him.I top up the coolant every oil change at 5k, no biggie.
Add me to this list of failed thermostat housings. I went in because my car threw a CEL yesterday and they said it was the intercooler. Don’t remember exactly what he said but they cleared it and then JUST as they pulled the car out of the garage, the CEL came back on. First mechanic couldn’t figure out what was going on, so an older guy hopped in and noticed coolant and ran diagnostics again. Fortunately for me, I’m at 58850 miles and still covered under the powertrain warranty. They didn’t even seem bothered that the car is modded.
Any idea if this part fails within a year, do they replace again, even if out of warranty?
And no, I didn’t bother reading through all 23 pages of this thread to find that answer to that.
