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Originally Posted by pylon
Look at what happened on VW 1.8T's in the early 2000's. An other words bullet proof engine, was blasted with a Brand wide recall because of an ignition coil problem caused by a supplier. Once the recall was done, the engines were just as reliable as anything out there, but it really hurt VW in reliability ranking for a couple years.
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Holy revisionist history pylon
That part was subject to design change several times. In fact, revisions A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P and Q all failed.
Finally revision R actually worked, and they performed the recall and on several different engines too.