It's believable that they lasted that long. One of my coworkers (who refuses to accept that anything American, not just cars, made since the '70s is anything but crap, and says that only BMW and Mercedes are worth buying,) has a '91 jetta and complained that the factory clutch only lasted 175k miles. We all called him an idiot.
His defense for the argument was that "My borther-in-law has a BMW that has the original clutch and has 225k miles." He's also a compulsive liar and has stated that "Volkswagen is German for 'Ford' " and that "VW was great at first but it went downhill when Hitler died and the Jews took over." He also told me that I don' tknow how to drive because I had to replace carbon-metallic brake pads after 30k miles and the front pads on his Stratus lasted 125k.
The moral of the story is that VW's factory-installed friction material lasts for a long time, and Bill is a Nazi/idiot/compulsive liar.
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