2007 Volkswagen California reviews

Volkswagen California 2007

I purchased my California camper from a dealer here in Auckland NZ. It had 40,000km . I have since had it in the garage for a lot of its life, 3 months. The manifold has had to be replaced, cracked. Appaerntly they are defective in this 2.5TDI 175 BHP model. Not according to the VW company though. The electric side sliding door is in the workshop for about the 4th time now and again tomorrow to try to get it sorted out from not opening and closing properly. So far the dealer is footing the bill and should do so at this low kilometers. I have lost total faith in it and will sell it on and finally go to an Asian, Korean, Or Japanese made vehicle. I am getting sick and tired of buying European and having things always going wrong with them . I love the way they drive but Reliability is non existant. I have owned 19 European cars in 18 years and most were very unreliable. This is my third VW Transporter. THe first Autosleeper, bought in Britain and was shipped around the World with us on our 80,000 mile travels. Fantastic except the Harmonic Balancer was defective at 80,000 km. The 4 Motion VW 2.5 tdi I last had approx 4 months ago was good but only had 3500km on it before I sold that, only in the Garage once for a fault. Good luck all you Transporter and European owners.