I just read through this thread and I try to understand you guys but I don't.
I feel like we are so under compensated that it's ridiculous, and I am just shocked that more people aren't upset over it.
Here is what my real costs are: (financially and emotionally)
1) Before I bought the VW I spent hours researching this vehicle. After spending hours researching it, reading articles on it, watching videos on it, I end up buying one. That time is now lost. The car I planned on having for 10 years is going to be gone. Hours wasted on research. No compensation for that.
2) I spent hours at the dealership dealing with a greasy slicky car salesmen. I had to sit through a process of some pawn shop looking finance manager pitching one of those worthless warranties to me. (that alone should be worth a thousand dollars having to listen to that crap) No compensation for that.
3) I had a car that I really liked that I lost when I traded it in on the Volkswagen. I can't get it back. If the volkswagen were not available, then I would have been able to keep my car that I had until I bought a different car from a company that did NOT LIE OR DECEIVE ME. Losing a car that I liked buying and then being duped into a fraudulent transaction should be worth a ton. No compensation for that.
4) Hours, and I mean HOURS, spent on reading this stupid dieselgate crap. Seriously, do you all think your time is worth nothing? Basically, for the past year, we've been frozen on what we could do on these cars. VW throws the dick at us, keeps us hanging in the balance for a year, and then gives us the least amount of money they can to try and silence the masses, and sadly, it does.
5) And now I have to do most of this stuff again. I have to do research for another car, deal with another salesman, another manager, jerked along for hours at a dealership as those blood suckers try to take another dime out of me. Where is the compensation for that?
I have spent hours, literally tons of hours, reading about this crap that we have to deal with. Hell, I spent hours trying to understand the formula that they are using to give us the "settlement." No real compensation for that.
I should be compensated for having to try to explain this mess to my wife, my co-workers, and everyone else who doesn't really understand this fiasco.
Is your time worth so little? Did the being kept in limbo not bother you? I cannot imagine anyone ever wanting to buy a Volkswagen again. This is like marrying a woman and then finding out she's banging the entire neighborhood, along with giving you the lovely gift of an STD, and then her saying she's sorry by paying for your medical care. This is how they define making you whole again?
At minimum, they should be taking our cars, fixing them, giving them back to us for us to do whatever we want along with giving us the value of our cars in cash.
I did a modification one time on a new car I had a long time ago. I think it was some type of cold air intake or something. Anyhow, something on the car, transmission maybe, broke and the company denied the repair because i had modified the car. At that time this was a huge bill that the company made me pay because they denied the warranty because of a part that didn't matter. In essence, they didn't do a 2,000 dollar repair only because they could find a reason not to. I have heard of stories like this many times through the years. But here we have a company that did so much worse. They put tons of modified parts on, lied to the government, lied to us, screwed their own dealers, and then want to make it right by giving us this trickling of money?
I read the comments in this thread and I think most of you have it all wrong. From how your comments read, I think you owe Volkswagen a big thank you for all they've done for you. They give us tough love.
