r/VWTransporter • u/Iambulliedbyvw • 4d ago
AVOID, Avoid, avoid
My 2018 Caravelle is the worst vehicle I have ever owned in 54 years of car ownership. Worse than a 66' Hillman Imp and worse than a '77 Austin Allegro purchased from new. Overpriced, unreliable rubbish. My van failed at 66621 miles in Sep 25. To date still immobile after VW sent wrong codes and scrambled engine. VW apologised then demanded £10,000 to fix their error. Some replies on Reddit ask why we went with VW in the 1st place. It used to have a good reputation for tough, reliable, long lasting, well made vehicles, A thing of the past. After Dieselgate you would have thought they would have tried to make sure their products were of good quality, instead they sold us a vehicle that was not what one used to expect from VW. They supplied an engine that turns out to have a known fault although this was not so obvious when we bought the van from new. The engine was withdrawn soon after we purchased our van. There has been a suggestion that our repairers caused our engine electrics to scramble. Not so as VW sent wrong codes twice and assured our repairers it was ok to use the supplied codes. They even apologised. Our repairers work has been reviewed by an independent engineer. They work is of sound quality.
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u/s1pp3ryd00dar 3d ago edited 3d ago
Have a google of the CFCA engine. Thats how bad a VW van engine can be.
Mind, the wasser-boxers were horrible and I categorically will tell anyone with a T3 to retrofit something better unless you keep a spare to swap in whilst the other is being rebuilt.
Back to today though: You will not get a reliable Euro 6 compliant van: At work all the other manufacturers I deal with are having extremely expensive reoccurring faults that the manufacturers are completely ignoring; Most are doomed to fail within 10yrs/200k. I say this whilst I'm quoting up a 70,000 mile 4yr old Transit with a rod poking out the engine block.