Ok. Can anyone profer an explanation as to why we have many 'naija used' of the above cars (2006-2009 model especially) on sale on nairaland?

Are they problematic?? Or it's just a coincidence that many people want to ''upgrade'' & hence wish to sell these cars? :/

I personally love the simple, yet not too simple interior & luvly exterior of these cars especially the passat. & hey, they r volks brands, so they r cars i would expectowners to hold on to for a long time. Its quite ''insulting'' to see a clean naija used 2008 jetta going for the same price as a toks 2003 corrola.

So house, any user experience or general comments about these cars?

I sincerely apologise to anyone who maay feel offended by this thread especially the dealers advertising these cars here on NL. But this is an auto section where we should educate ourselves about cars, which also includes problems we may experience with any brand of car & most importantly, ways to prevent them & troubleshoot on our own without having to resort to the many incompetent mechanics here in naija.
So, its quite possible that both potential buyers, current owners & even dealers may benefit.

Thanks.

@POSTER,
I guess the reason is that 9ja mechanics are not competent in fixing
newer cars as in they are more computerized,full of electro,new cars
are too sorphiscated for our mechs,e.g our mechs are more confident in
fixing carberators as oppose to fuel injector.

euromilion:

@POSTER,
I guess the reason is that 9ja mechanics are not competent in fixing
newer cars as in they are more computerized,full of electro,new cars
are too sorphiscated for our mechs,e.g our mechs are more confident in
fixing carberators as oppose to fuel injector.

You have a point, but other new model cars within d Jetta (main ''culprit'') class such as the Nissan Sunny, Toyota Corolla, e.t.c dont seem to follow the same trend, tho it appears some Honda Civic owners are also eager to dump them.

Perhaps they get easily bored with the cars :/