Is a VW Golf a good used car?
Reliability survey, it received a good reliability rating of 90. As a whole, this generation of golf should be more reliable than the ford focus, seat leon (2020-present) and mk8 volkswagen golf, but less reliable than the honda civic and toyota corolla. In a nutshell: across its generations, the golf is generally a well-built and popular car, but recurring issues include dsg/automatic gearbox problems, timing-chain failures on some petrol engines, dpf and fuel-system issues on diesels, electrical and infotainment faults, and water-ingress or trim niggles on certain .