Oh, I forgot to mention the rear-enders in Bugs, the 99% of owners who didn't take their POS in to have the braked adjusted weekly, as they needed.
No doubt. I haven't looked under the hood of a new Bug, and I don't relaly have any wish to. I would like to play with one of their diesels, though. It'd power a genset and backhoe right nicely.
No, and I'll bet no VW you owned did, either. ;)
But, as a subset of the population, VW drivers were always known for their crazy driving and total lack of maintenance. Anyone who wasn't/isn't a VW freak knows that. Only those who did their own work kept up their Bugs at all, it seemed.
-- If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. -- Samuel Butler