2001 Volkswagen Golf review from North America

Oxygen sensor had to be replaced within 5k of my time with it.

Now the EPC light is on.

Drivers door doesn't lock like the others when I push the lock button, but it will if I click unlock and then lock again quickly.

Check engine light clicks on and off consistently.

One tire had a hole in the valve, had to have all new tube put in.

Check engine light enjoys clicking on and off just to irritate me. I find that it mostly goes on after it's rained. When it didn't click off I had it checked, they tinkered on it and claimed that they had fixed the problem. On the drive home it clicked back on again. I called as soon as I got home, had a bit of a raging fit at the poor person who just makes the car appointments. Brought it back in and they changed the oxygen sensor. The light has continued to click on and off since.

The most recent and as I was reading seems to be a consistant problem in all VW cars. Which is the EPC light comes on and then I cannot move my car into any other gear no matter how hard I push my foot down on the brake. Which is just great because I don't want to have to have it towed to the morons that I bought it from. I'm going to try some of the tips on how to get it out of park that I read for the Jetta.

I'm starting to miss my manual Geo.

Why the heck can't they make the Golf like they used to!!!??? My first car was a 84' golf and I ran that thing into it's grave. I don't see wanting to own one of these past 100k I'm just going to keep trading them in for newer models every few years. Which seems extremely unnecessary. If I wasn't such a VW lover...grrrr.