{"id":293,"date":"2015-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:02:12","slug":"volkswagen-dsg-recall-are-you-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micksgarageblog.org\/volkswagen-dsg-recall-are-you-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen DSG Recall &#8211; Are You Affected?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/drivingspirit.com\/storage\/volkswagen\/volkswagen-dsg.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"241\" src=\"http:\/\/drivingspirit.com\/storage\/volkswagen\/volkswagen-dsg.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honestjohn.co.uk\/news\/miscellaneous\/2013-03\/massive-dsg-recall-in-china\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> Honest John Article, Volkswagen are set to be hit with massive recall costs due to problems with their famous DSG gearbox.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;\">&#8220;384,181 vehicles<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;were recalled&nbsp;to replace defective gearboxes that may result in the loss of&nbsp;acceleration.<\/span><br \/><br style=\"background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;\" \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #434343; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Swiss, SunSans-Regular; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;\">Models include the Golf, Magotan, Sagitar and Audi A3&#8243;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cost to Volkswagen is initially estimated to be $600 million, not exactly change you find at the back of the sofa!<\/p>\n<p>This could spell an end of people&#8217;s affection for the German brand and may see consumer&#8217;s look east when purchasing their next car considering the increased warranties and impressive reliability ratings associated with Korean and Japanese manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know if you are affected and if it will change your opinion of Volkswagen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen DSG Recall &#8211; Are You Affected?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Volkswagen DSG Recall - Are You Affected? 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