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    and people moan about fiat build quaility

    at least my diff dont sheer the rivits off and fire them out of the casing hey volkswagen

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    Sheeet, that's not good!
    Is it a case of just putting new rivets in?

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    Quite a simple looking diff too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sicskate View Post
    Sheeet, that's not good!
    Is it a case of just putting new rivets in?
    its a case of doing what vw should have done in the fist place and bolting using a replacement bolt kit all this trouble for the sake of vw cutting corners on rivits

    aparantly its a common problem with small engined vag cars

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    Yea this is a very compn thing and it's on most new vws my bros threw the diff out of the casing in the end

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    its not like vws are even a cheap car even a base golf is what 13k ish now

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    Common fault, I've heard of it before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shorty2289 View Post
    its not like vws are even a cheap car even a base golf is what 13k ish now
    Yeah and a GTi is nearly £30k, total dogshit

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    pretty sure this is what happened to my mates old polo gti

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    vw's have had chocolate boxes since the mk4 polo and the mk3 golf, my mate's mk5 tdi spat its diff out at 35k.

    if only everything in life was as reliable as a volkswagen

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