Reuters had access to a message published on Volkswagen's intranet site in which brand chief Thomas Schaefer admitted partial and early retirements are planned.
Thing is the new EA888 is quite reliable. For the amount of power and fuel economy that it makes it’s great. All three of those cars are reliable enough that I wouldn’t worry about the minute differences of which one is slightly more reliable.
I’ve been driving an EA888 powered car in some form or another since 2017 (mk7 Golf, now a B9 A4) and the only issue I’ve had is the Golf having a turbo going out from a bad production batch, replaced under warranty.
Yes and timing chain. I’d rather have the 2.0 gen 3 or later over anything modern Toyota is putting out simply because it has all of the tech refined (reliable) after generations of modernization AND it puts down serious power.
I had a 2013 VW CC and the EA888 wasn’t all that good for me. I had to spend $1400 one time to fix leaks everywhere, $700 on a new radiator bc the car would leak coolant like crazy, was leaking again after only a 2 years since the leak fixes, burnt oil, and my gas mileage was crap even though I had replaced all the ignition components, often ran fuel system cleaners, ran premium gas, and drove fairly slow/moderately. Plus the car had enough shit break that could only fixed at the dealer that I went japanese and traded it in
Thing is the new EA888 is quite reliable. For the amount of power and fuel economy that it makes it’s great. All three of those cars are reliable enough that I wouldn’t worry about the minute differences of which one is slightly more reliable.
Did they fix the oil consumption issues?
Seems fixed for the Gen 3 EA888
I’ve been driving an EA888 powered car in some form or another since 2017 (mk7 Golf, now a B9 A4) and the only issue I’ve had is the Golf having a turbo going out from a bad production batch, replaced under warranty.
Yes and timing chain. I’d rather have the 2.0 gen 3 or later over anything modern Toyota is putting out simply because it has all of the tech refined (reliable) after generations of modernization AND it puts down serious power.
I thought they had water pump issues.
Is that still going on? I remember it being an issue over a decade ago
yes
Lmao damn
I had a 2013 VW CC and the EA888 wasn’t all that good for me. I had to spend $1400 one time to fix leaks everywhere, $700 on a new radiator bc the car would leak coolant like crazy, was leaking again after only a 2 years since the leak fixes, burnt oil, and my gas mileage was crap even though I had replaced all the ignition components, often ran fuel system cleaners, ran premium gas, and drove fairly slow/moderately. Plus the car had enough shit break that could only fixed at the dealer that I went japanese and traded it in
that was an older generation of the ea888, different from the mk7 and mk8
Makes sense lol I expected worse to be honest, I heard so many bad things about VW that I was fully counting on needing a few water pumps