Volkswagen Polo 1.4TDI Review

Report on a new V W Polo 1.4 Petrol - 59 reg. Metalic Black hatch very good from driving point of view. Very responsive steering & good brakes. Engine suffers on hills & you need to be back in 3rd gear or you loose speed. We are however having a problem with flaking paintwork around bonnet edge. This is on the drivers side at the windscreen end. There seems so be 3 different places where the bonnet paintwork edge has been "touched up" during factory final inspection. 2 areas are at the windscreen edge & another around the front edge where the V W grill badge is located. One of these areas is now flaking off close to the drivers wiper blade & arm, but we have not caused this damage ourselves. More fragments flake off the more we drive the car. Estimated mileage to date is 1,500 miles. V W seem reluctant to accepting a faulty paintwork warrenty claim. We have checked several other new unregistered V W cars at our local dealership & have found 2 cars where there is signs of rough paintwork "touching up" around the edges of their bonnets. These were a Fox & a Golf. Has anyone else experienced this rather unfortunate problem. This is our 1st V W ownership, & the UK based V W's unhelpful customer care response to our problem has made us wonder if we have made a wise choice of car purchase. Finally, we felt we could not recommend any V W cars to our freinds, because of what looks like a commom paintwork manufacturing problem. Please send any helpful replies to support our claim to :- jquick@onetel.com or call us on 07825 382428. Thank you. John Quick. (posted 20th July 2010).