Bought my CPO 2017 GTI back in June with about 34k miles, it was an off lease car and super clean.
First 6 months were problem free, only thing I had to do was just an oil change. Dealer changed the DSG fluid, threw on OEM pirellis which are awful and basic things before they put it up for sale. I enjoyed the car a lot, but then started seeing a small coolant leak around September.
Didn't think much about it nor did I fill it as I wanted to watch the speed it leaked, which was very slow. I live in the NJ/NYC metro and don't drive too often except for when we visit my in-laws in Upstate NY, typically I save this time for installing mods and doing service.
So it's now got about 40k miles on it, I am still here up north and the car took forever to heat up one morning. Usually I get heat within a mile of driving, I drove about 5 miles and the oil temp was 160 and the coolant was only 158, which was super strange. But as I turned the car off and came back later to go somewhere, it was fine.
Finally I made an appointment and dropped it off at the local dealer here and just a call this morning, welp no surprise it's the Water Pump, they're replacing the thermostat as well. I told them about my sunroof creak and will apply a "modification" to fix the creak.
Said it should take about a day or two since they need to order parts. I'm not mad since it's a CPO but I never had a car with such an early failure in it's life, I don't feel that it's unreliable as any other car but to be honest, it's not like a completely brand new engine they just came out with.
Kinda amazes me that Germans cannot get cooling system reliability down like the Japanese (I had owned a E39 at one point).
*****Update*****
Hey everyone, Happy New Years Eve.
Got my car back last night from the dealer, extremely nice and friendly people. Did not question my visual mods and they replaced the following below with part numbers added.
06K121011C - Water Pump
06L121111M- Thermostat
06L121131- Union
and they listed G13 Coolant but didn't mention if they just topped it off or flushed the system?
Failure happened at 40k miles.
They said they performed the "sunroof recall" but it still makes a tiny bit of noise, I will do the gummi stuff most of you have mentioned and report back. The service writer said to come back when it's warmer and they'll be able to look at it better.
Other than that, pretty straight forward. Just had to pay my CPO deductible of $50
First 6 months were problem free, only thing I had to do was just an oil change. Dealer changed the DSG fluid, threw on OEM pirellis which are awful and basic things before they put it up for sale. I enjoyed the car a lot, but then started seeing a small coolant leak around September.
Didn't think much about it nor did I fill it as I wanted to watch the speed it leaked, which was very slow. I live in the NJ/NYC metro and don't drive too often except for when we visit my in-laws in Upstate NY, typically I save this time for installing mods and doing service.
So it's now got about 40k miles on it, I am still here up north and the car took forever to heat up one morning. Usually I get heat within a mile of driving, I drove about 5 miles and the oil temp was 160 and the coolant was only 158, which was super strange. But as I turned the car off and came back later to go somewhere, it was fine.
Finally I made an appointment and dropped it off at the local dealer here and just a call this morning, welp no surprise it's the Water Pump, they're replacing the thermostat as well. I told them about my sunroof creak and will apply a "modification" to fix the creak.
Said it should take about a day or two since they need to order parts. I'm not mad since it's a CPO but I never had a car with such an early failure in it's life, I don't feel that it's unreliable as any other car but to be honest, it's not like a completely brand new engine they just came out with.
Kinda amazes me that Germans cannot get cooling system reliability down like the Japanese (I had owned a E39 at one point).
*****Update*****
Hey everyone, Happy New Years Eve.
Got my car back last night from the dealer, extremely nice and friendly people. Did not question my visual mods and they replaced the following below with part numbers added.
06K121011C - Water Pump
06L121111M- Thermostat
06L121131- Union
and they listed G13 Coolant but didn't mention if they just topped it off or flushed the system?
Failure happened at 40k miles.
They said they performed the "sunroof recall" but it still makes a tiny bit of noise, I will do the gummi stuff most of you have mentioned and report back. The service writer said to come back when it's warmer and they'll be able to look at it better.
Other than that, pretty straight forward. Just had to pay my CPO deductible of $50
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