I’m considering getting a used Volkswagen Eos as a daily driver. I read a lot of people complain about Volkswagen’s reliability. I wonder if it is true. I’m planning to own it for 3 to 4 years but I will put about 70k miles on it considering my current driving habit. I am shopping for used one at …

These are mostly rated as below average by Consumer Reports with the exception being the 2010 and newer which are average. One concern that seems to keep cropping up on http://forums.vwvortex.com/forumdisplay.php?786-Eos is the roof leaking and other issues with the folding hardtop. It could last wi…

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Those folding hard tops are FULL of parts to break, become misaligned, etc. Friend had his new BMW totaled after a 5 mph bump in a parking lot.

Conservative Reports has a bit of a love/hate relationship with VW. They almost all get excellent scores on their drive rest, and many have decent or better reliability for the first few years. Now comes the problem. The cars older than that are mostly quite unreliable, but there are at least two…

My wife has had good experiences with VW. Her first car was an '85 Golf she drove till it ended up dying in 2010. Two years ago she bought an '08 Jetta, and the only problem its had was the trunk latch breaking.

My guess is that you would have some issues along the way and that other brands would be somewhat better if reliability is a major concern. Although it’s a small sample size, I’ll point out that my friends with Audis and VWs have tended to have intermittent electrical glitches that have been hard t…

Friends and relatives with VW’s mostly have had good or better reliablity but those are 2008-2009 Jetta’s and my Brother’s '09 GTI (previously owned an 85 Jetta) Others likely haven’t been so lucky. An independent VW shop could give you some insight into what kind of repairs the Eos most commonly ne…

I checked maintenance and repair cost estimates on Edmunds. They estimate repair costs for 2011 MY EOS at $3200 over 5 years. This compares to $2200 for the Accord coupe and Camry sedan. The extra couple hundred bucks a year might be worth it to you to have a more distinctive car. CR repair ratin…

VW’s aren’t really designed to last a long time. I’m not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, just that lasting years and years and miles and miles, it’s not their forte’. They are more for the driver who likes to buy a car, drive it, enjoy it for a few years, use it up, and when/if problems…

Is used Volkswagen reliable?

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missileman May 14, 2014, 6:01pm 8

I would not use the words used Volkswagen and reliable in the same sentence. “Money pit” comes to mind as being more appropriate.

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Is used Volkswagen reliable?

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