Juddian:
Sounds like a normal MAN to me, not really tough enough for fleet fodder, the VW input is showing lots of bling short on durable, my only surprise is that you didn’t have a brake malfunction spurious warning and the interior door handle didn’t snap of in your hand…i bet you never looked at the roof light switch and window switches behind the parking brake, at least one of those would ave been snapped off and if the roof lights worked a minor miracle.
First MAN I’ve had that’s this bad. I’ve driven old (pre-TG) MANs that have been in better shape than this one.