YardingMaster
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A couple years ago my wife and I were shopping for a vehicle. We hadn't planned on buying new. We stumbled upon the 2014 TDI Jetta which we really liked because of the mileage. On our test drive, I was seeing well over 50 mpg at speeds of around 60-65 mph with the AC off. This blew my mind. Aside from hybrids, nothing else came close to this number...
So we talk it over and decide this is a good purchase a fully loaded TDI and say to the salesman ok let's do it. Now, somehow we were talked into doing a lease and purchasing afterwards. I forget now the exact reason we went that route but maybe it was the lower monthly payments and the option of not having to be stuck with it if we didn't like it. In any case, we leased the damn thing...
Here's where we may have really messed up. My wife insisted on putting money (8 grand) down on it. It was money she wanted to dedicate to this car and not be kept in the bank, and it kinda made sense to me. Also, it lowered our payments and would make the purchase afterwards a lot cheaper. I wish we hadn't done that now because we cannot terminate lease without giving that $8k up is what we're being told.
What really ticks me is that we got this car purely based on the mileage it achieved. And that turns out to be completely fraudulent and will go down after the "fix". Btw, anyone have an idea on what mileage will be afterwards????
So now it looks like our only option is to make the remaining 8 lease payments, and then buy the vehicle. Our restitution will still only be half of what a purchasers restitution will be. Long story short, we'll get $3400 off the total amount we agreed to on a car bought only for the economy, which we were lied to about and will now be less. Seems legit!
Just wanted to know if anyone else is in the same boat, and if I'm looking at all of this correctly. Probably a pretty rare situation.
When looking at this car's fuel economy, I apparently should've remembered the lesson that if it's too good to be true.....
So we talk it over and decide this is a good purchase a fully loaded TDI and say to the salesman ok let's do it. Now, somehow we were talked into doing a lease and purchasing afterwards. I forget now the exact reason we went that route but maybe it was the lower monthly payments and the option of not having to be stuck with it if we didn't like it. In any case, we leased the damn thing...
Here's where we may have really messed up. My wife insisted on putting money (8 grand) down on it. It was money she wanted to dedicate to this car and not be kept in the bank, and it kinda made sense to me. Also, it lowered our payments and would make the purchase afterwards a lot cheaper. I wish we hadn't done that now because we cannot terminate lease without giving that $8k up is what we're being told.
What really ticks me is that we got this car purely based on the mileage it achieved. And that turns out to be completely fraudulent and will go down after the "fix". Btw, anyone have an idea on what mileage will be afterwards????
So now it looks like our only option is to make the remaining 8 lease payments, and then buy the vehicle. Our restitution will still only be half of what a purchasers restitution will be. Long story short, we'll get $3400 off the total amount we agreed to on a car bought only for the economy, which we were lied to about and will now be less. Seems legit!
Just wanted to know if anyone else is in the same boat, and if I'm looking at all of this correctly. Probably a pretty rare situation.
When looking at this car's fuel economy, I apparently should've remembered the lesson that if it's too good to be true.....
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