[Vwdiesel] Window Regulator

[W3wjr at aol.com]

I have a 98 Jetta.  At 100K miles and 6 years old they replaced the DS Rear 
regulator for free. 

1 year, and 12K mile later (this morning) I called VW direct again. 
This time the DS front regulator has the outer jacket of the cable broken, 
causing the cable to have a lot of free play, which makes the window jump and 
grind when closing it.
The PS Rear don't do anything at all.

VW said "Were sorry your having problems, but we feel there comes a time when 
the customer has to take financial responsibility in there own repairs, and 
again were sorry, but you will have to take it to the dealer and have it 
repaired without our assistance."

I agree with them to a point, but why has 3 of 4 regulators going bad in this 
time frame? Its bad engineering.
The only reason the DS front is not bad is nobody ever sits there!

Time to start calling junk yards, the 98 a3's should be starting to show up.

In a message dated 11/23/2003 9:16:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
hillsgrove at adelphia.net writes:
> Check with the dealer, I got a letter some time back on my 96 Passat
> TDI (it is now dead thanks to my daughter) stating that window
> regulators would be covered regardless of mileage.  Check before you
> buy.  Hayden