>> Ford hammered them on the test bed when they first came out. The put on
>> 100k in a matter of months and found few issues. VW said the same. Whether
>> either held up to real owners I don't know, but they seemed happy to go
>> ahead and sell them.
There is a difference in pre production units, to units made with vendor mass produced parts (when the procurement bean counters have their fingers in the pie) in real use.
The early Ford units failed because of a stupid external coolant pipe.
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