turbo2turbo
06-04-2012, 05:14 PM
Hi all B7 owners, how are you finding the B7,
1. does it drink oil like the B6?
2. does the DSG box still have the jerkiness and mechatronic problems
3. does the electric hand brake still have randomly sticking on problems
4. do the turbo's have the sticky vanes problem
sorry if this sounds a bit negative, but i've had passats over the last 10 years and love em, had a 2001 b5.5 130 tdi did 200k and had very few problems, then i upgraded to the 2006 B6 and had all the problems listed above from 60k up to 150k as did quite a few of our drivers (taxi) after having so many problems with the B6(always serviced at vw every 10k) i got rid and went back to a 55 plate B5.5, when i got this 55 plate it had 61k it now has 110k and is still going strong , in 12 months time it will have 200k, i always change my cars around this mileage, and want to stay with vw but dont want to go down the B6 route so hoping the B7's are better any input from owners would be very helpful thanks
1. does it drink oil like the B6?
2. does the DSG box still have the jerkiness and mechatronic problems
3. does the electric hand brake still have randomly sticking on problems
4. do the turbo's have the sticky vanes problem
sorry if this sounds a bit negative, but i've had passats over the last 10 years and love em, had a 2001 b5.5 130 tdi did 200k and had very few problems, then i upgraded to the 2006 B6 and had all the problems listed above from 60k up to 150k as did quite a few of our drivers (taxi) after having so many problems with the B6(always serviced at vw every 10k) i got rid and went back to a 55 plate B5.5, when i got this 55 plate it had 61k it now has 110k and is still going strong , in 12 months time it will have 200k, i always change my cars around this mileage, and want to stay with vw but dont want to go down the B6 route so hoping the B7's are better any input from owners would be very helpful thanks