scottysize
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Little background before my story, I found a 2015 Ram EcoDiesel in March that I bought and parked the Passat TDI. I haven't driven the car since then until a few weeks ago...
So here's what happened to me today: My check engine light came on a few weeks ago. All I wanted was to drive the car around town to make sure it'd get to the VW dealer in October? I thought,"Great. Now I have to get this stupid light fixed before they'll take the car back." I drop it off today and the Service guy just called me to tell me what the problem is. The temperature sensor in the AdBlue otherwise known as DEF tank is bad. They want $1600 to fix it. Hold on, let me tell you how I heard it in my mind;
"You have a part that belongs to the equipment used for emissions that is bad and we want you to give us $1600 to fix the part that is on the system that we are buying back your car because it won't pass emissions without us cheating."
My answer obviously was a resounding, NO! Not only no, but H E double Hockey sticks, NO! I asked the guy what would happen if I didn't fix it. He said he had no idea. The only thing he knows is that they are docking us for miles and checking to make sure it's in good working order. He doesn't know what good working order is. I told him that the car had only been to them since it was new and they have done all the maintenance on it, so I've done my part right up until today. I'm not fixing a part of the system that is being recalled. Nope. Not me.
Needless to say, I'm taking the car home without replacing the $1600 part. I going to park it back in the driveway where it was until they give me the buy back appointment. Then I'm going to take the car back and collect my check.
So here's what happened to me today: My check engine light came on a few weeks ago. All I wanted was to drive the car around town to make sure it'd get to the VW dealer in October? I thought,"Great. Now I have to get this stupid light fixed before they'll take the car back." I drop it off today and the Service guy just called me to tell me what the problem is. The temperature sensor in the AdBlue otherwise known as DEF tank is bad. They want $1600 to fix it. Hold on, let me tell you how I heard it in my mind;
"You have a part that belongs to the equipment used for emissions that is bad and we want you to give us $1600 to fix the part that is on the system that we are buying back your car because it won't pass emissions without us cheating."
My answer obviously was a resounding, NO! Not only no, but H E double Hockey sticks, NO! I asked the guy what would happen if I didn't fix it. He said he had no idea. The only thing he knows is that they are docking us for miles and checking to make sure it's in good working order. He doesn't know what good working order is. I told him that the car had only been to them since it was new and they have done all the maintenance on it, so I've done my part right up until today. I'm not fixing a part of the system that is being recalled. Nope. Not me.
Needless to say, I'm taking the car home without replacing the $1600 part. I going to park it back in the driveway where it was until they give me the buy back appointment. Then I'm going to take the car back and collect my check.
