Comments | osi: crap window

osi

crap window

Jun 07, 2003 14:21

so the driver-side window fell into the door as we were driving back to the hotel after searching for some breakfast... now we're at a vw dealership in atlanta while they fix it. very cool of them to squeeze us in. of course we need to have it fixed, as the weather in the southeast is rainy this weekend ( Read more... )

Comments 5

gba June 7 2003, 12:35:05 UTC

peter you are a nerd, has anyone ever told you that?

osi June 9 2003, 11:31:36 UTC

not nerd, but i get geek all the damned time.

fr00tie June 8 2003, 07:10:06 UTC

the same thing happend to me on the passenger side on the way to the mall one day.. apparantly its a "thing" that happens. and when i went to another vw dealership after i got it fixed they asked me if i had the other window done too because eventually that one would do it too..

karybdis June 8 2003, 08:02:11 UTC

As Fr00tie said, it's a known issue. The driver side went south on me the morning of a drive out to Disney. I was still under 24k miles so no cost. Then the passenger's side went out on the night of returning from a St. Augustine trip. At that point, I took $200 with me to VW, because I was at 55k and figured it wouldn't be covered. Even so, there was no charge because it was a "known problem". Just something about 4th gen watercooled VWs overall since you're in a Jetta and I'm in a New Beetle- and our cars are from two different countries of construction.

osi June 9 2003, 11:33:42 UTC

kinda screwy.. the tech said that there are plastic clips in there that break all the time (that's what the initial sound we heard was).. he replaced both front clips with metal (so the passenger shouldn't have the same treatment).. makes ya wonder how/why that got put into so many cars!