JKC_NC
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Nov 9, 2009
- Location
- Raleigh
- TDI
- '15 Passat TDI DSG | '15 Passat TDI SE Manual (sold 7/2018) | '10 Jetta Wagon TDI manual (sold 4/2015)
I have a 2015 NMS TDI SE manual, stock, 31k mi. Bought in Apr 2015 new, $25K OTD, cash. My buyout price is $27-28K (buy + restitution). My restitution for fix is ~$7.2k.
I bought the car for the room/economy. I'm 6'6" and have 12 & 14 yr old kids growing to match.
I have a ding in the passenger front quarter panel...about a 3x3" crunch on the wheel well that a kind hit-run lady gave me while parked the week I bought the car. I saw the lady shifty-eyed and quickly pull away, but didn't 'catch' her in the act and didn't fully understand what had happened until it was too late. I had a $700 estimate to fix the ding, but never did it, and I never made a claim.
I had been planning to keep the car until 2018, sell back, and buy used same model for about $11-15k, sans the ding and drive on until my kids are out of the house.
But...I'm starting to consider the fix...I KNOW how the car has been driven - I'm the only driver. I KNOW I've added Power Stroke Silver EVERY tank since new. The reasons I got the big car still stand.
What are your thoughts for my situation...keep the car for the long haul with ding and get 7K restitution, or sell it back and *hope* I can find a replacement on the cheap.
I am not financially strapped...and am starting to think that getting the car for $18K is a pretty good deal, and that the $3-5K I *might* be able to capture by trading is a fool's folly.
Your thoughts? I really want Oilhammer's thoughts on the wisdom of keeping an ea288 fixed orphan for the long haul (likely just ~200k mi, realistically).
My commute has recently changed from 22 miles/day to ~68 miles/day, but this might change again.
Thanks for your collective wisdom.
Joe
I bought the car for the room/economy. I'm 6'6" and have 12 & 14 yr old kids growing to match.
I have a ding in the passenger front quarter panel...about a 3x3" crunch on the wheel well that a kind hit-run lady gave me while parked the week I bought the car. I saw the lady shifty-eyed and quickly pull away, but didn't 'catch' her in the act and didn't fully understand what had happened until it was too late. I had a $700 estimate to fix the ding, but never did it, and I never made a claim.
I had been planning to keep the car until 2018, sell back, and buy used same model for about $11-15k, sans the ding and drive on until my kids are out of the house.
But...I'm starting to consider the fix...I KNOW how the car has been driven - I'm the only driver. I KNOW I've added Power Stroke Silver EVERY tank since new. The reasons I got the big car still stand.
What are your thoughts for my situation...keep the car for the long haul with ding and get 7K restitution, or sell it back and *hope* I can find a replacement on the cheap.
I am not financially strapped...and am starting to think that getting the car for $18K is a pretty good deal, and that the $3-5K I *might* be able to capture by trading is a fool's folly.
Your thoughts? I really want Oilhammer's thoughts on the wisdom of keeping an ea288 fixed orphan for the long haul (likely just ~200k mi, realistically).
My commute has recently changed from 22 miles/day to ~68 miles/day, but this might change again.
Thanks for your collective wisdom.
Joe
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