1998 Volkswagen Golf review from Greece

The car started from the very beginning to show problems like uncontrollable re-opening of windows while closing them, strange sounds from the cockpit etc.

The most serious was that when starting the engine in cold weather, the whole car started 'trembling' for a couple of minutes. It was obvious that the engine was undergoing tremendous mechanical pressure. After spending two weeks having the problem inspected by the local dealer, they decide that we must change the ignition control unit, the fuel distributor and the other ignition parts. To my surprise the problem didn't stop, while at the same time they changed their policy and they were trying to convince me that the motor's behaviour was normal, according to German standards!!

After examining the situation by having a little local poll of Golf drivers, I verified that the same problem also happened to others and although they explained the fact to their dealers, each time, a quite different explanation was given to them!!

I was very disappointed buying this car and you have to consider that it cost a lot. The local dealers are not able to even define what is going wrong with the car, if you have any serious or rare problem.