VW undoubtedly make a fantastic driving car, unfortunately they also make cars with inbuilt manufacturing faults which they then refuse to acknowledge once the car is out of warranty. If this was only a small percentage of the cars made it may not be an issue but there are far too many cases of owners having to foot ridiculous repair bills for mechanical failures on low mileage fully dealer serviced cars. My own experience was with my MkVI GTI with 79000km's and which had only ever been serviced by VW dealers, when the timing chain tensioner fa...Read more

Bought our Mark6 golf 7 months ago and it is by far our biggest regret in our lives (honestly) I have just traded it in and come home to a vodka on the rocks to celebrate!!!

Let me start off by saying we bought into the golf knowing about the common clutch pack fault with this model. When we bought privately for such a cheap price we thought we would take a risk! The clutches had been replaced 2 years before we bought it so we figured it would be fine...

The car had 73000kms on it when purchased.

I went over this car with a fine tooth ...Read more

Purchased a Golf GTI MK6 2012 Auto and have had her for two weeks. Recently dropped her off for the 70,000km service ( only has 66000kms with full-service history) and found out that the rattle noise from start-up is not my cam tensioner as I have the revised version where the original was a design fault ( can cause the chain to jump teeth engine damaged occurs) but it is a non-return valve that is inside the cylinder head. To get to this part you have to either have the whole engine out then the head off to access it if it fails due to a des...Read more

We bought this Golf wagon as a more economical daily driver for my wife instead of the VE Commodore sportswagon she's been using. It does everything well; very responsive yet very economical, light and pleasant to drive, quiet, comfortable and remarkably spacious. It also has huge front brakes. Handling is excellent and despite being front wheel drive it has a great turning circle. The cargo space is incredible for a car of this size. The technical features are comprehensive and user friendly, as are the controls and instruments. Only thing lac...Read more

I own 3 - Mk 6- 2.0litre 2x Manual models 1x Auto
I look after all of these cars myself ( Own Automotive Workshop )
Firstly the overall package is wonderfull If you into Highway work, BUY the Manual So much better performance & fuel economy. The automatic on the other hand is a much better bet for city driving. There is a lot talk about the reliability of the DSG trans. Service religiously every 40,000 km. The system is quite aggressive on transmission oil and can easily burn the additives in the oil. I've had a problem with all 3 cars wit...Read more

Let start off by saying, the little 1.4L Twin Charged engine has great power and punch for how small it is, and the sound system and a few bits of tech are cool. It stops there.

I bought mine at 76xxx Kms, one owner with full VW service history. So very lucky under warranty, I got the timing chain done which was at 80k kms! The car would always throw up defect faults, everytime I started it, but VW always said there was no errors!

Now, to the dry clutch 7spd DSG gearbox... Do NOT buy a auto Golf mk6. Ever! It was the worst gearbox I have ...Read more

What a piece of junk this car has turned out to be! bought my car brand new and noticed early on that it made a grinding noise when I started it and acceleration was shuddery. Reported issues to Volkswagen during early servicing but they said nothing was wrong with it. Fast forward five years I'm told it needs almost 10 grand of work done and Volkswagen will only agree to cover 50% of parts under their good will claims. If I'd done average km's then this issue would have happened while the car was still under warranty but Volkswagen don't care ...Read more

I bought my Golf TSI Comfort Line in 2009 brand new, thinking that it will be hassle free, etc. I was wrong! Problems started after the first service, shuttling, losing the power, stopping in the middle of the road, doesn't start, power exceeding on downhill, you come to your car and all the windows down but only one is up. All were very scary. Everytime when I took the car back to the dealer they said "Couldn't find anything, nothing is wrong, a little software error, etc. until the big news hit the media about the poor lady dying on the highw...Read more

Monopolising on their single outlet status in 2009, deceptive, obfuscating, unhelpful, expensive, patronising liars. I bought the vehicle in Victoria, as these grubs could not match the price - their quote was some $3000 more, including allowing for a flight Devonport-Melbourne, and the ferry trip back. I had them install the MDI for iPhone at the first service. (4700+). It stopped the standard 3mm input plug from working, has never worked properly, and despite several attempts to fix it they never did, but always assured me 'this works with o...Read more