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 cause 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.
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