I have a hard time believing I'm the only special snowflake in this regard. Sure, maybe. But I do agree the incidence rate on Passats is far lower than the other models.
VW "helpfully" performed a fuel test prior to the warranty work and confirmed it was fine, so no misfuel here.
3/4 ain't bad.
In 75k miles I have lost faith in the longevity of the vehicle. The failure modes of the common issues like the turbo or fuel pump generally result in metal contamination from catastrophic failure, which means expensive repairs of lots of expensive downstream components. A...
Anecdotal, of course, but this confirms a fear I've had with this whole buyback thing looming. I think that a great majority of these "goodwill" fixes we've been seeing from VW for known issues or problems just outside of warranty are gone, gone, gone.
Why do a goodwill fix to get a car...
I reserved a Tesla Model 3 the day they were revealed and hope the stars align and it's delivered before the clock runs out on the buyback. I'm very excited to switch to an EV. I need close to a 200 mile EPA range so at the moment that spells Model 3 or Bolt.
Yep. Section 9 of the long form notice, defining class exclusions, includes:
• Volkswagen’s officers, directors and employees and participants in Volkswagen’s internal lease program; Volkswagen’s affiliates and affiliates’ officers, directors and employees; their distributors and distributors’...
I recall reading something in the class exclusions that referenced VW employees, dealers, etc etc. not 100% but I would be surprised if dealers qualified as eligible sellers.
You're greatly over estimating the amount of effort VW is going to put into this. If your car starts, has a clean title, and isn't obviously missing a bunch of parts, you're done. You think they're going to take every one of them back to the shop and check the ECU for non-factory tunes? Not a...
Same. I'm very pleased with the timing of this, provided Tesla can find a way to stick somewhat close to their schedule (big if at this point but I'm optimistic). I'm in California and reserved in-store prior to the reveal.
When I started looking around for comparably priced cars to the Passat...
I'll accept a buyback because the math makes it pretty difficult not to.
Current plan is to keep driving my '14 Passat until close to the end of the settlement period in 2018. At that point I'll have hit about 120k miles, which is when I was going to get rid of the car anyway. I don't have a...
They could. I think the real problem is the reputational damage. This whole event has soured the entire population on diesel passenger car technology. People just aren't going to buy them, so the case for VW to continue trying to compete is pretty weak from a business perspective.
Provided, of course, it is all done in a single, useless thread of endless commentary on anything tangentially related to the topic. Because, you know, we wouldn't want to organize information and discussion in a way that is actually beneficial and useful.
There should have been a dedicated section to talk about this 9 months ago. The blind insistence on pushing all communication into a single perfectly useless thread is mind-numbingly dumb.
Then locking that thread because apparently there are no possible valid points of discussion any more...
I lost a HPFP in my 2014 also. Thankfully mine passed the fuel test so I didn't have any problems with them denying coverage for the repair.
I've heard some have been successful getting this expensive repair covered under their comprehensive insurance coverage if there is evidence of...
You can, but all conversation has to be in The One Giant Thread Where Discussion Is Allowed.
It's something like 342,000 posts now. Completely worthless in terms of information or trying to follow the conversation. But, at least we won't have lots of threads.
No clue. I'm sure they went by whatever their repair script told them to do. I've ran a complete tank through it at this point, no problems yet. I'm sure VW is at least as motivated as me to not have another $6k repair done on their dime, so I'm fine with assuming they did things correctly.
I...
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