Unreliability

Maintenance and Repairs

I’ve lurked this sub for some months now, love seeing all the R’s about and there’s clearly some intelligent people on here but I wonder if anyone can help me out. I have a 2018 lapiz blue golf R, bought in December last year. To say it’s my pride and joy would be an understatement. Since owning it I’ve installed a full racing line induction kit with the matching turbo inlet pipe, DVX+ recirculating valve, vag sport res delete and some beautiful oz leggera 18” wheels. All sounds good doesn’t it? Well 4 days in to me owning the car the slave cylinder went and subsequently wrecked my entire clutch and flywheel, no biggie though it’s covered under warranty, that was fixed and off I went. 3 months later the water pump and thermostat went, I’m getting a little frustrated at this point but I knew those 2 systems were prone to failure on most m/t vag cars so again fixed under warranty (my warranty company must love me, shout out assurant car cover, they’ve never left me stranded so far!) all was well for another 2 months….until Monday morning at 5:45am. On my routine drive to work I was met with a warning saying the 12v battery wasn’t charging and to pull over safely. I obliged, lifted the bonnet to be met with what looked like a scene from Texas chainsaw massacre…but with oil. Turns out the crankshaft pulley has blown its seal, on the auxiliary side of the block, and the subsequent oil spray had made its way on to the serpentine belt, hence the battery warning and the rough idle afterwards. Like I said I love this car, and most of you are probably thinking “well it’s under warranty, so what?” But I am sick to death of this s**t truly. It’s done 46k miles…what the hell is going on?! Do I keep going with this at the disgust of my wife?! Or do i get it fixed and trade in?!

Posted Jul 9, 2025, 6:00 PM UTC

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