Honda Car Forum

Hi:
I'm looking to buy a new car, and the choices have boiled down to an Accord EX
or a Passat GLS (both 4 bangers with automatic).
Any opinions, is the Passat worth the 2K premium?
TIA
Frank

Get the Altima.





How to turn off 'Maintenance Required" light:

1. Hold trip/reset button on dash
2. Turn key to "ON" or start engine
3. Hold button til light goes out

Passat is a GREAT car to drive around in the springtime with the windows
down. :-) If you hang over at the VW newsgroups for a few days, you'll
find that most new VWs are really good for driving around with the
windows down. Even in the middle of winter, and rainstorms, and when you
want to lock up your car, and overnight.

Don't you just hate it when you come out in the morning and find a
'street person' sleeping in your Passat because the window won't go back
up ? ?

We dumped our GTI after a 'short fling' and moved to a Honda, or two. :-)

Check the resale value of the New Beetles that are flooding the used
carlots. There's gotta be a reason that people are unloading them so
cheap...

'Curly'

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FBoll wrote:
> Hi:
> I'm looking to buy a new car, and the choices have boiled down to an Accord EX
> or a Passat GLS (both 4 bangers with automatic).
> Any opinions, is the Passat worth the 2K premium?
> TIA
> Frank


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FBoll <fboll@aol.com> wrote:
> Hi:
> I'm looking to buy a new car, and the choices have boiled down to an Accord EX
> or a Passat GLS (both 4 bangers with automatic).
> Any opinions, is the Passat worth the 2K premium?
> TIA
> Frank

The maintenance premium dwarfs the 2k price premium.

Andrew

I have a 2000 Passat V6 Wagon and a 9 month old 03 Accord EX-L.

They are both very nice cars, but with very different personalities.
The Passat V6 is strong and smooth. I think it has about 190 HP. My
car is extremely quiet, comfortable and handles very solidly. I've
driven cross country a couple of times and it was a joy.

The Accord is noisier and has a firmer ride. I find the 4 cyl
performance is very good, in most circumstances as strong as the V6 in
the heavier Passat. It feels more sporty and agile, though as I said,
I've been impressed with the Passat handling as well (dodged two deer
that jumped in front of the car at the very last minute while I going
80+ mph without the slightest hint of a loss of control).

I have friends who have the 4cyl turbo and report that it is a great
car. I chose the V6 because it was smoother and quieter than the 4 cyl
in the Passat.

The Passat is certainly not troublefree and I'm assuming the Honda
will be cheaper to maintain / more reliable. I've never been stranded,
but the Passat certainly has had to have its share of time at the VW
dealer. And the Honda gets ~ 34 mpg on the highway using regular gas;
the Passat uses premium.

Tom

On 23 Feb 2004 16:58:07 GMT, fboll@aol.com (FBoll) wrote:

>Hi:
>I'm looking to buy a new car, and the choices have boiled down to an Accord EX
>or a Passat GLS (both 4 bangers with automatic).
>Any opinions, is the Passat worth the 2K premium?
>TIA
>Frank

>>Hi:
>>I'm looking to buy a new car, and the choices have boiled down to an Accord
>EX
>>or a Passat GLS (both 4 bangers with automatic).
>>Any opinions, is the Passat worth the 2K premium?
>>TIA
>>Frank

VW's are not good cars. My sister-in-law bought a 2001 Beetle and within 9
months the door panels started coming off, the power locks went out and it
started getting a lot of rattles. The driver's side fog light also fell out
from underneath the car, completely unprovoked. I had a 1990 Passat GL and it
handled really well, but it stayed parked needing work more than I drove it.
From what I understand, they haven't gotten much better.
J Hebert
jawshhh20@aol.com

>VW's are not good cars. My sister-in-law bought a 2001 Beetle and within 9
>months the door panels started coming off, the power locks went out and it
>started getting a lot of rattles.

That's because the Beetle is assembled in Mexico. It's a fact that cars from
there have higher rate of problems.







How to turn off 'Maintenance Required" light:

1. Hold trip/reset button on dash
2. Turn key to "ON" or start engine
3. Hold button til light goes out

"He Hate Retards" <drpimpdaddi@aol.complaint> wrote in message
news:20040223153249.25181.00000228@mb-m07.aol.com...
> >VW's are not good cars. My sister-in-law bought a 2001 Beetle and within
9
> >months the door panels started coming off, the power locks went out and
it
> >started getting a lot of rattles.
>
> That's because the Beetle is assembled in Mexico. It's a fact that cars
from
> there have higher rate of problems.

My wife (then girlfriend) had a 96 Jetta that ate an alternator and two
wiring harnesses due to a dealer-installed A/C system. Factory A/C systems
had the H-D wiring harness; the dealer-installed AC cars had the lite duty
harness (which was later discontinued). The first one that got burned out
was a warranty replacement, the second one and alternator were paid for with
apologies by VW Corporate when the dealer told us to F-off despite us
demonstrating that they created the problem by installing A/C without
replacing the wiring harness.

I won't touch a VW with a 100 foot pole from now on. I personally think
they're for people with Audi attitudes but a lesser budgets. I also find
they're rude, aggressive drivers - "Ich bin ein autobahn fahrer" or some
other fantasy.

>> That's because the Beetle is assembled in Mexico. It's a fact that cars
>from
>> there have higher rate of problems.
>
>My wife (then girlfriend) had a 96 Jetta that ate an alternator and two
>wiring harnesses due to a dealer-installed A/C system.

That's because the Jetta is also built in Mexico.


Factory A/C systems
>had the H-D wiring harness; the dealer-installed AC cars had the lite duty
>harness (which was later discontinued). The first one that got burned out
>was a warranty replacement, the second one and alternator were paid for with
>apologies by VW Corporate when the dealer told us to F-off despite us
>demonstrating that they created the problem by installing A/C without
>replacing the wiring harness.
>
>I won't touch a VW with a 100 foot pole from now on. I personally think
>they're for people with Audi attitudes but a lesser budgets. I also find
>they're rude, aggressive drivers - "Ich bin ein autobahn fahrer" or some
>other fantasy.
>





How to turn off 'Maintenance Required" light:

1. Hold trip/reset button on dash
2. Turn key to "ON" or start engine
3. Hold button til light goes out

"TL" wrote, among other things

> I have a 2000 Passat V6 Wagon and a 9 month old 03 Accord EX-L.

> The Accord is noisier and has a firmer ride.

I can hear myself breathing while driving my '04 4-cylinder Accord. Don't
anyone get the impression it's noisy! To me, the car is a joy to drive.

Howard