Has anyone seen a 7 years old car with this amount of rust?
This car is my 2011 VW GTI from Thailand. I’m the only owner/driver. Drive perfectly, love the car, never have any accidents, never flooded, and never took it into a paint repair shop (except 1 time by the dealer, more to it later).
I saw some small amount of rust developed few years ago, but I can live with it because I don’t want to take it into a paint repair shop. However, the rust develop faster than I thought, now when I touch them, the metal body broke! Pictures attached.
Here is the fact;
Interesting thing is my wife's car, Suzuki Swift, which is 7 years old too. It has approximately the same mileage, always park next to my car, use the same water to wash, and wash about 1 time a week too, has no rust at all. Pictures attached. Basically it’s used in the same environment as my car.
My parent car, Nissan Teana, is 7 years old too, which is over 1xx,xxx KM, always park in the same area, use the same water to wash, wash about 2-3 times a week, has no rust. I don’t have a picture of this car.
During 7 years, my car was serviced at a VW local dealer, except 1 time in 2017 that I took the car to another well-known VAG service shop in Thailand (non VW authorised shop) to replace ABS sensors and oil change.
The local VW dealer is very helpful, because they saw the rust developed on my car too, so they try to claim for 12 years rust warranty for me. However VW denied the warranty, because I took the car to service once with a non VW authorised shop!
I think it’s obviously a defected car, and by denying the rust warranty because of one service record is not fair at all. Not to mention that my local VW dealer saw the rust developed long time before that service at non VW authorised shop.
Still love the car and thought maybe I’m not lucky to get a defected car, but I’ll not buy another VW anymore!
This car is my 2011 VW GTI from Thailand. I’m the only owner/driver. Drive perfectly, love the car, never have any accidents, never flooded, and never took it into a paint repair shop (except 1 time by the dealer, more to it later).
I saw some small amount of rust developed few years ago, but I can live with it because I don’t want to take it into a paint repair shop. However, the rust develop faster than I thought, now when I touch them, the metal body broke! Pictures attached.
Here is the fact;
- The car has 77,xxx KM on it.
- It’s washed about 1 time a week.
- It’s always parked under a shade.
- About 1cm X 2cm paint came off the rear bumper, in less than 1 year after I bought the car. I took the car back to VW dealer where I bought it and they repaired it for me.
Interesting thing is my wife's car, Suzuki Swift, which is 7 years old too. It has approximately the same mileage, always park next to my car, use the same water to wash, and wash about 1 time a week too, has no rust at all. Pictures attached. Basically it’s used in the same environment as my car.
My parent car, Nissan Teana, is 7 years old too, which is over 1xx,xxx KM, always park in the same area, use the same water to wash, wash about 2-3 times a week, has no rust. I don’t have a picture of this car.
During 7 years, my car was serviced at a VW local dealer, except 1 time in 2017 that I took the car to another well-known VAG service shop in Thailand (non VW authorised shop) to replace ABS sensors and oil change.
The local VW dealer is very helpful, because they saw the rust developed on my car too, so they try to claim for 12 years rust warranty for me. However VW denied the warranty, because I took the car to service once with a non VW authorised shop!
I think it’s obviously a defected car, and by denying the rust warranty because of one service record is not fair at all. Not to mention that my local VW dealer saw the rust developed long time before that service at non VW authorised shop.
Still love the car and thought maybe I’m not lucky to get a defected car, but I’ll not buy another VW anymore!
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