wikedgolf
08-04-2004, 10:44 AM
Volkswagen Golf Rallye G60 safety defect
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This Volkswagen Golf Rallye G60 was one of only 5000 ever built, they were hand built in Belgium in 1989-1990 to rally specification. Cost as new £20,000. Powered by an 1800cc supercharged engine, four wheel drive, ABS braking, on 205mm tires.
This car had done 70 000 miles at failure, had always had it's servicing done on the due date, always by Volkswagen Approved Agents. It had cash lavished upon it throughout it's brief but much cared for life.
The caused of this accident was fatigue failure of a driveshaft of a constant velocity joint on a rear wheel. It now begs the question of Volkswagen. As most models of Volkswagen appear to be fitted with the same shaft type. How many more are likely to fail in this manner? Fatigue failure is a silent and in this case undetectable killer.
linky
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.bailey19/home.page1.htm
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.bailey19/fatiguefailureheader.jpg
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.bailey19/rallye1.gif
This Volkswagen Golf Rallye G60 was one of only 5000 ever built, they were hand built in Belgium in 1989-1990 to rally specification. Cost as new £20,000. Powered by an 1800cc supercharged engine, four wheel drive, ABS braking, on 205mm tires.
This car had done 70 000 miles at failure, had always had it's servicing done on the due date, always by Volkswagen Approved Agents. It had cash lavished upon it throughout it's brief but much cared for life.
The caused of this accident was fatigue failure of a driveshaft of a constant velocity joint on a rear wheel. It now begs the question of Volkswagen. As most models of Volkswagen appear to be fitted with the same shaft type. How many more are likely to fail in this manner? Fatigue failure is a silent and in this case undetectable killer.
linky
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.bailey19/home.page1.htm