Scirocco Central

Hi Everyone,

My 2012 Scirocco has low compression on cylinders 2 & 3 and after getting my trusted mechanic to look at it, he can see that one of the pistons is cracked.

I’m trying to build a case study to go to VW with, as it’s unacceptable that a less than 6 year old car with only 60k miles on the clock can have this bad an issue where it needs a new engine and is going to cost thousands!

If any one has had this issue before and has any sort of evidence of it being fixed etc. Can you please email me on jordanhewitt30@yahoo.com

Thanks everyone and here’s to hoping lol

Jordan.

Did you buy your car from a VW dealer? Your rights under the sale of goods act (if you bought it pre-October 2015) or consumer rights act (thereafter) will be against whoever sold it to you.

You may also have more options if you bought it using any form of credit.

VW tend to play hard ball with this one (they've never admitted there was a fault, as such). So for instance if you bought yours from a dealer they may expect both you and the dealer to contribute something towards the repair, if they offer anything at all. (I suspect the fact yours had been running for 6 years and did quite a few miles, presumably without an issue, means they may not come forward with any sort of offer willingly!)


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I recall VW had some recalls relating to the engine software. Check to see if your car had them applied.

skyblues11 wrote:I recall VW had some recalls relating to the engine software. Check to see if your car had them applied.

Good shout. Think this was done automatically providing serviced at a stealer's, but worth checking.


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