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We have had the little beast for over a year and firstly we just had a lot of Agro from the dealers and all their **** ups! Excuse the pun. The drive is sometimes fun but the backache just isn't, it is just too stiff a ride for me but all small cheap cars will be the same. The MPG is reasonable but no where near the quoted. Very noisy little engine and a lot of road noise although the throaty thrum of the engine can be a bit fun to listen to sometimes I tend to tire of the noise after a while.
7 Months in we had the water sloshing problem so had to get that sorted but it took two trips to the dealer who did sort it and was not the same as the one we got it from and were very nice about it but still did not listen when I told them about it and that it would be the Sills as advised on here. The first time I took it in it was the coldest day so the water no doubt had frozen. The second time it was still making the sloshing when I took it in and made a mechanic come out with me in the car so that I could show him and he knew straight away that I was not talking rubbish.
Since then there has been occasions when the car refuses to pull off at the lights and the automatic brake thing when you are on a slight incline will not release.
The gearbox can be very moody and some days will just not want to play nice, will struggle on almost all of the gears and feels rough.. The dealers said it never did it with them so maybe just me being picky but other days it is as smooth as silk.
The car has had it's first service now and everything seemed to be running great and had three weeks of the gearbox behaving, but at the beginning of the week it all started again and was worse than before now feeling like there was sand in the transmission and refusing gears quite a lot. But it gets worse, I was driving on the A3 on Wednesday when all of a sardine I get the warning ping, which is the same sound for temperature outside as low fuel, but anyway I look to the dash to see the ABS and ESP (Little skiddy thing) lit up but car still appeared to be handling fine. Anyway when I arrived at my destination I called VW and they told me that it was probably just dirt on the sensors which is plausible but VW's of all shapes and sizes are actually known for dodgy ABS pumps, my dad had the same with an Octavia and cost a lot to put right. Well car is booked in but will not get a courtesy car which is a pain and the next date that any of the three dealers I called would either be 20th Sep, 14th Oct or 2nd Nov so I have to be without a car, well not exactly because the car actually belongs to my partner and have finally decided to get something of my own some old banger as I do such high mileage for work so it will probably be a Ford KA or something equally bland and simple. I spoke to several of my colleagues and they have all owned Volkswagen and vowed to never again, which is sad really because I know they can be good and that all brands will have a lemon here and there and sadly we seemed to have ended up with one and also sad that it was our first Volkswagen too. I do however think that if you want a cheap car maybe there are some out there which will not be as expensive but will not hold their value. Looking at the Lupo or Arosa for instance, just because they are of the VW brand you can't even pick up a high mileage one for less than £1000 so good news if you are worried about resale value. But looking at the UP! second hand on the market it is after a year holding good value where as the Skoda Citigo of similar spec and mileage pales in comparison so maybe I would if second hand hunting go for the Skoda. Sadly for a second car this time around it has to be a real banger.
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7 Months in we had the water sloshing problem so had to get that sorted but it took two trips to the dealer who did sort it and was not the same as the one we got it from and were very nice about it but still did not listen when I told them about it and that it would be the Sills as advised on here. The first time I took it in it was the coldest day so the water no doubt had frozen. The second time it was still making the sloshing when I took it in and made a mechanic come out with me in the car so that I could show him and he knew straight away that I was not talking rubbish.
Since then there has been occasions when the car refuses to pull off at the lights and the automatic brake thing when you are on a slight incline will not release.
The gearbox can be very moody and some days will just not want to play nice, will struggle on almost all of the gears and feels rough.. The dealers said it never did it with them so maybe just me being picky but other days it is as smooth as silk.
The car has had it's first service now and everything seemed to be running great and had three weeks of the gearbox behaving, but at the beginning of the week it all started again and was worse than before now feeling like there was sand in the transmission and refusing gears quite a lot. But it gets worse, I was driving on the A3 on Wednesday when all of a sardine I get the warning ping, which is the same sound for temperature outside as low fuel, but anyway I look to the dash to see the ABS and ESP (Little skiddy thing) lit up but car still appeared to be handling fine. Anyway when I arrived at my destination I called VW and they told me that it was probably just dirt on the sensors which is plausible but VW's of all shapes and sizes are actually known for dodgy ABS pumps, my dad had the same with an Octavia and cost a lot to put right. Well car is booked in but will not get a courtesy car which is a pain and the next date that any of the three dealers I called would either be 20th Sep, 14th Oct or 2nd Nov so I have to be without a car, well not exactly because the car actually belongs to my partner and have finally decided to get something of my own some old banger as I do such high mileage for work so it will probably be a Ford KA or something equally bland and simple. I spoke to several of my colleagues and they have all owned Volkswagen and vowed to never again, which is sad really because I know they can be good and that all brands will have a lemon here and there and sadly we seemed to have ended up with one and also sad that it was our first Volkswagen too. I do however think that if you want a cheap car maybe there are some out there which will not be as expensive but will not hold their value. Looking at the Lupo or Arosa for instance, just because they are of the VW brand you can't even pick up a high mileage one for less than £1000 so good news if you are worried about resale value. But looking at the UP! second hand on the market it is after a year holding good value where as the Skoda Citigo of similar spec and mileage pales in comparison so maybe I would if second hand hunting go for the Skoda. Sadly for a second car this time around it has to be a real banger.
