May be you have been lucky, I have a E250 CGI now 9 weeks old & just covered 15k!
Auto box goes into "N" of its own accord normally on a motorway & have to drift to the hard shoulder & shut down & restart. Wipers keep going off in the sunny weather but usually fail when it rains! adaptive headlights automatically dip at the slightest hint of light in the other direction so going down a country lane in the dark , if the car detects a house with an outside light they just dip out! leaving you unable to see where the road goes! The dipstick keep blowing out & oil goes everywhere! there are horrendous rattles in the drivers door & dash & wind noise. the seats are like sitting on cardboard! 250 miles is the max I can travel before I have to stretch & regain some feeling in my cheeks! Never attempt a quick 3 point turn bacuse when you select drive the throttle doesn't allow you to accelerate for about 3-4 seconds! & the fuel tank is so small if you doing 8-900 miles in a day it usually needs 3 fuel stops! a real pain & when its hot & done 3-400 miles in the morning it then gets almost impossible to drive in traffic as it gets very very jerky! possibly to do with the blue efficency injector issue.
The wierdest thing of all is when you pick up a client they say WOW its a Merc but after 200 miles they are normally wiggling in the seat with a numb behind! soon change their tune.
Fortunatley the Merc goes now as its done its miles so heres for another passat hopefully for a few weeks.
The Passat 2.0TDi DSG High line was a far superior car & I could drive 400+ miles before a break & 900 miles between fuel stops! come back Passat.
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