Scirocco Central

Fishbones wrote:My mother died this year, I've been forced to retire from my "cool" job, my eldest daughter is suffering in various ways, same for my youngest daughter, my wife is stressed out, in constant pain due to a medical issue that can't be resolved & I have been diagnosed as terminally ill. But let's not get into my private life in a way to explain my frustration & disappointment (of life in general actually). I just want something to go right before I die. Capiche?

xjay1337 wrote:Maybe I'm more tolerant.

xjay1337 wrote:I get annoyed by other people being too lazy to do some basic research and wanting to be spoonfed.

So far from what the OP has told us I can see nothing wrong at all with anything VW have done.

Phil wrote:

xjay1337 wrote:I get annoyed by other people being too lazy to do some basic research and wanting to be spoonfed.

So far from what the OP has told us I can see nothing wrong at all with anything VW have done.

The chap who had his front wing dented and the leather on his seats ripped on his 3 month old roc during was also told he'd be looked and take it back in for repair. He told them that it was no longer the brand new car he purchased as it was spoiled. He was given a full refund and money towards a new VW.

He was looked after by VW - this is pretty basic service in comparison considering the seriousness of the fault.....

Phil wrote:I'd be as p***ed off as you in all honesty. As far I'd be concerned this could have been a loss of life fault, the fact it wasn't is nothing short of a miracle which shouldn't be downplayed, which giving you a courtesy car and saying sorry doesn't quite cover. I'd be telling them where to stick their apology

Fishbones wrote:I think you'll find that other people are making it more of an issue than I currently am. Yes, it's a major fault - one no-one has encountered before, it's being put right, no problem. All these "chill out" remarks are all well & good but if this had happened to anyone else I do wonder how calm they'd be, especially if it happened in normal driving circumstances. Lucky for me it didn't but the feedback I get from VW is that they're taking this VERY seriously. I also am a little amused how the advice of "give it time" and "wait & see" has been forwarded. Yes, of course I am but terminal illness has no time table and I just want something to go right this year in enough time for me to be able to enjoy it.

Fishbones wrote:It shows how other people perceive things that don't impact on them with little or no understanding of the life changing implications of such things. The stress caused by this could, effectively, end my driving capabilities. Possibly without the car for a month. If it happened to you in the state of health I am in then you would react exactly like me. I don't need telling there are more important things than material things - try living not knowing for sure that you'll wake up in the morning before you spout "no big deal". How little of the big picture you see,

Fishbones wrote:Again, you indicate that you don't get it. It's not being without the car per se that is life changing, it's the effect mentally that things like this have on my MS in particular. Regardless whether the steering failed in my drive or on the motorway *that* will (and has) had an effect for the worse. I see people keep saying "ah but it didn't happen on the motorway so don't stress" which is easy for anyone to say. Would it be so easy to dismiss the possibility of a loved one that missed the bus and had to catch the next one escaped death because the first one happened to crash? Hypothetical, yes, of course, but I'm sure it would be something they mentioned to one or two people along the way. "No big deal" they might reply but it wouldn't change your own viewpoint would it? To you it would have been a thankful lucky escape - to everyone else maybe no big deal.

"I'm not the most empathetic person" - at least you understand that.