No doubt the leak would be slow to appear on your driveway, what with the big belly pan and its thick sound insulation absorbing most leaks before anything can hit the ground. ?
Any "25-point inspection" would have to include removing that pan. ?Even just changing the oil means removing the pan. ?Even if the mechanic didn't both to actually check the transmission the fact that the foam in the pan was filling up with tranny oil would be hard to miss! ?(In other words, you don't have to check all "25 points" if you want to cut corners ?-- just check the pan and if it's clean and dry then obviously nothing above it is leaking, at least not grossly leaking. ?But if the pan shows evidence of leaks above and the mechanic doesn't bother to track down the leaks, that's pretty incompetant.)
If I were you, I'd take the car to an independent garage right away and have someone assess how much tranny oil has soaked into the belly pan insulation. ?If there is a quart or more absorbed there, it will be obvious, and it will be powerful evidence that the "inspection" was bogus, maybe even fraudulent.
I don't have the Consumer Relations number handy, but the vw.com website is sure to have it.
Mike
----------
From: Suemccowan@...
To: ev_update@...
Subject: Re: [ev_update] clutch and transmission advice
Date: Mon, Jun 5, 2000, 6:54 PM
toggle quoted message
Show quoted text
The drip has been going down into the foam on some pad
underneath the van so we would have never seen the leak on the driveway.
