2017 Nissan Sentra SR... TURBO/MANUAL

RicerX

I dislike VW because I was a former owner of a 2001 Jetta Wolfsburg, and it was the biggest hunk of garbage I have ever spent money on. The cars are great for their first 30k miles, and quickly show the corner-cutting put into building (plastic oil dipstick tubes, shitty electronics, etc).

I owned that car 2.5 years. It was VW certified with 28k miles on it when I bought it. From 28k to 80k, I went through a center console, glove box, four power window switches (three driver's door, one rear passenger door), a trunk release (the actual hardware - rigged it with zip ties and a spring from a bic click pen and it lasted longer than the factory hardware), a coolant temperature sensor, four mass airflow sensors, bank 2 o2 sensor, an engine wiring harness, rear brake caliper hardware, two front wheel bearings, and a transmission and clutch (trans failure was at 31k miles, btw).

It was cheaper for me to get out of the car into a more expensive (at the time) Sentra SE-R Spec V (2004 model) than to keep driving and fixing it.

I don't know how anything is from model 2010 going forward, but any VW I've seen with age has had quality problems. I have had things break on my Nissans, but I have never been concerned with being able to get to where I need to go when I turned the key. There were several times when I turned the key to start my Jetta and I had plans for someone to come get me along the way just in case. That's just unacceptable for a car with that age and mileage to me. I would say I might have had a lemon, but I had several friends with that generation Jetta and GTI that had several significant problems as well.

I hate it because the car was a BLAST when it worked. I loved it. But when it broke it was never less than $400 to fix. That was a tough pill for a poor college kid.

JARblue

Then you must never have experienced ESCL or CSC failure on the Z

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RicerX

Correct, sir! hahaha good call.

Luckily, for the most part, if those things failed, they failed once and a fix was remedied. ECSL was recalled, and CSC either had an aftermarket alternative or workaround (Z1). Those were really the only two major problems with the Z.

No one had an answer for my why Jetta ate four MAFs in 60k miles. No one had an answer for why the guts of an ink pen served as a better trunk release mechanism than the factory junk (seriously... the replacement I rigged up lasted until I traded the car... around 50k miles or so from the time it broke). No one had an answer for why my clutch plate broke and shot through the transmission while my car was in cruise control on the interstate.

I had a bit of PTSD with that car I think...

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UNKNOWN_370

My homeboy had a 98 then upped it to an 01 hoping it would he a better car cuz he in fact was a VW fanboy. Car sucked just as bad. He went into another car company altogether in 2004.

I feel the GTi is way overrated as a performance car. It's more like an extra fun commuter. The understeer is ridonculous and under aggressive cornering it pulls away from you...

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