by Parts-Dealership » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:45 pm
I HATED MY BEETLE.
I owned 2. The 1st one I owned was a 2001 GLX Turbo. It had many problems with the mass air flow system that recirculates the air for the turbo system. I began Better Business Bureau Lemon Law preceedings and the night before my arbitartion date, someone from VW called and offered me a brand new 2002 GLX as a substitute they knew they goed to lose, and didn't want the car classified as a lemon .
That brings me to car #2. I got rid of it about six months ago. It was problem free in the beginning. Then it seemed as although everyhting went wrong. inside a period of some months the car started to blow fuses and have different issues. The biggest issues included:
coolant system failure, to get stuck in park on many instances, stalling usually, etc.
In my opinion, the new beetle is the most unreliable car made. I could understand one lemon, but not two in a row, from two different model years.