10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
1 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
1 / 0
Average Mileage:
12,000 miles

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problem #1

Jan 292009

GTI

  • 12,000 miles
Car was involved in frontal crash, hitting another that was stopped in the road. Car was going between 20 and 30 mph. Airbags did not deploy causing driver to hit nose on steering wheel. Not broken but severely bruised.

- Blue Island, IL, USA