VW is to buy back the car they sold you. Not the clapped out POS people made them into. Your buyback should suffer in price just as they would on the open market.
VW is not crushing these cars. Not all of them at least.. Despite what people and the EPA would love to see, its not happening. Sorry.
Wrong-O. Show me where in the settlement it says that.
They're buying back a car they once sold, and has been owned / maintained / modified (within reason) / used.
Under your interpretation, lack of (dealer) maintenance would be a deduction, lack of any maintenance records whatsoever would be a huge deduction, just reading your signature leads to all kinds of questions how they might theoretically devalue your car.
Again, we're talking about a straight VW for VW seat swap in this case, not slapping in a bench seat from a 1975 Datsun pickup truck.
(EDIT) I was just thinking back to when I sold my TSX back to an Acura dealer, after 6 months of owning it. I bought it used with 8,000 miles on it, CPO. It had been a service loaner. Naturally, it had been maintained at the dealership while they had it, and it was in great condition. As it turned out, I really disliked that car. When I approached a local dealership to inquire about buying it from me, the CPO was very important to them. I had installed nice looking Enkei wheels on it, to get away from the traditional Acura 5-spoke look, with Bridgstone Driveguard run flat tires. Thankfully I had the stock wheels bagged up in the garage, because the dealer placed more value on stock wheels than aftermarket (so he could resell it as a CPO -- stock wheels is a requirement). I had my one oil change done at a local Honda dealership, so technically (to him) it was serviced within the Honda/Acura family. He didn't catch that the replacement windshield was OEE, and I wasn't purposely deceptive about this; it didn't cross my mind and he didn't check. Point being, this all factored in to the negotiations as to how much he would pay me for the car, and this is exactly NOT the situation with the VW settlement. I suppose the settlement could have included a checklist with standardized deductions for modifications, wear, lack of records, etc., but it doesn't. It's a straight buyback amount with certain criteria (some fuzzily defined) to be met, and nothing more should be read in to that agreement (by either side).