UBUGME
Veteran Member
I chose the fix + $. I love both of my TDIs.
My dad used to drive a 1983 Mercedes 340D when I was a kid. He used to brag back then about the MPG he was getting.
My first Diesel was a decommissioned Austrian Post VW Golf 1. I bought it back in 1998 when I moved to Austria. I loved that car. We drove from Spittal an der Drau to Venice Italy and had to fill it only twice.
When I moved to the States, I bought a 1989 New Beetle TDI with 36K miles on 2004. Drove the car back and forth between Jacksonville, FL and Columbus, OH I don't know how many times and had it till 2014 with 246K miles on it. I sold it to my son for $1000 and it is still running.
I replaced the Beetle with a 2010 JSW TDI in 2014. This is still our main family car. Just two weeks ago, I bought a 2013 Jetta with 53K on it. This is now my wife's car.
Here is why I'm keeping the car:
a. I don't have extra cash to buy other types of Diesel vehicles that are extremely expensive for me like BMWs and Mercedes or Jaguar XE 20d.
b. I don't live in a farm, do construction or have a landscaping business, so buying a Diesel truck would be out of the question. Also, they are expensive.
c. The Chevy Cruze Diesel, is after all a Chevy, and I don't trust that brand since I have owned an HHR and it made noises that nobody could figure out where they came from.
d. I like European cars and VW is all I can afford.
e. I like being different. Owning a diesel car makes you stand out. Normality is the curse of the weak.
f. There is an obscene amount of self help on this forum and others that I can utilize to do repairs and get information.
g. There a good options for aftermarket parts with vendors like ECS Tuning, ID Parts, fixmyvw and others.
I am planing to drive the cars till they can't no more. My only concern is that, if there is no fix, the Government is gonna make me get rid of them if I don't do the buyback or there is no approved fix.
My dad used to drive a 1983 Mercedes 340D when I was a kid. He used to brag back then about the MPG he was getting.
My first Diesel was a decommissioned Austrian Post VW Golf 1. I bought it back in 1998 when I moved to Austria. I loved that car. We drove from Spittal an der Drau to Venice Italy and had to fill it only twice.
When I moved to the States, I bought a 1989 New Beetle TDI with 36K miles on 2004. Drove the car back and forth between Jacksonville, FL and Columbus, OH I don't know how many times and had it till 2014 with 246K miles on it. I sold it to my son for $1000 and it is still running.
I replaced the Beetle with a 2010 JSW TDI in 2014. This is still our main family car. Just two weeks ago, I bought a 2013 Jetta with 53K on it. This is now my wife's car.
Here is why I'm keeping the car:
a. I don't have extra cash to buy other types of Diesel vehicles that are extremely expensive for me like BMWs and Mercedes or Jaguar XE 20d.
b. I don't live in a farm, do construction or have a landscaping business, so buying a Diesel truck would be out of the question. Also, they are expensive.
c. The Chevy Cruze Diesel, is after all a Chevy, and I don't trust that brand since I have owned an HHR and it made noises that nobody could figure out where they came from.
d. I like European cars and VW is all I can afford.
e. I like being different. Owning a diesel car makes you stand out. Normality is the curse of the weak.
f. There is an obscene amount of self help on this forum and others that I can utilize to do repairs and get information.
g. There a good options for aftermarket parts with vendors like ECS Tuning, ID Parts, fixmyvw and others.
I am planing to drive the cars till they can't no more. My only concern is that, if there is no fix, the Government is gonna make me get rid of them if I don't do the buyback or there is no approved fix.