Yeah, VW specialist says "pound sand" so tuck your tail and head home.
I've had a few speeding tickets in my life -- literally three. Two I paid, but the third was bull, well, technically bull. Officer straight fabricated.
It was Easter Sunday, east of Stockton, driving up to the mountains. I was driving a '93 Saturn SL1.
There's this long straight downhill stretch and I thought I'd see if the the old 85 HP Saturn could do 100 MPH. I think it got it past 90! Wee!
At the bottom of this hill is a sweeping 90 degree turn to the right, and the highway flattens out. As I'm approaching the curve, a U-Haul flashed me. There's a know "speed trap" up ahead, and CHP patrols there with airplanes. I slowed the car down and flipped on the cruise control.
I drove a bit more than two miles, and at the end of two miles a CHP lights me up and writes me a ticket. They got me from the airplane.
Well to get a speeder from an airplane legitimately, they've got to have fixed marks painted on the ground and they'll use a stopwatch to calculate your speed. The plane can't pace the speeder.
Plus I knew I was driving exactly the speed limit on cruise in the marked portion of the highway.
So I go to court, and make my case. I admitted that I "may have" been carrying a little bit of speed on the downhill, but that the U-Haul flashed me and I checked my speed and set cruise in the marked section.
The airborne officer, on the other hand, testified he clocked me doing 80 something inside the first marked mile, and 80 something else in the second marked mile. The officer who pulled me over didn't testify because he just took the report of the airborne officer and pulled me over.
I didn't have much of a fight. I was definitely speeding, but not where they said I was. But that doesn't take away from the fact that the officer perjured himself.
I was OK with it, I earned it, but that doesn't discount the officer's actions. i figure he knew what a speeding car looks like, even if it's not where he's set up to patrol, so he honed in and made up the numbers to fit the ticket.
If we had dashcams back then I'd have been off the hook.
If I had a TDI to turn in that had collision damage, but it was "operable" in the road legal sense, dang skippy I'd try to return it, and not just shrug my shoulders when the first buyback specialist (and that guy on the TDI forum) told me "No!"
I don't know why you'd have to go "west coast" "east coast" or any other ridiculous label nonsense but go ahead down that rabbit hole, share your superior bigoted opinions with us all here.
Nycali, good for you showing signs of perseverance and not surrendering like a wimp in the face of the false authority of the buyback specialist who is only there to act as a conduit of the settlement.
West Coast out.
...Mark
