you anwsered you own question. My golf was at 235 000 miles, and still going fine, no rebuilds. and who's to say it stopped running at 235 000 miles, thats just when I sold it. I owned it for 3 year and nothing went wrong on it. I don't know what site you were on, but carsurvey . org suggests differently. I bet you havent even own a vw...