Diesl
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Dec 3, 2012
- Location
- Chicago
- TDI
- '78 Golf Diesel (long gone); 2012 Jetta Sportwagen TDI w/ DSG
How to spend the dealer-only gift card?
One could buy a set of tires, but those do age in storage as well. Motor oil is a possibility, but then you need to store oil for the next 100,000 miles ($50/load, oil change every 10k miles). Stock up on silly hats, T-shirts and key chains? How much are roof carriers?
Worst case, waste it on crazy-priced dealer maintenance: $190 for a brake flush, $200 for a power steering flush, or $225 for a coolant flush! The $86 TDI oil change is the bargain on that list...
From what I read it has the same 1 year limit, since issuance, NOT since when you received it![...]
The $500 card for the dealer is the challenge if you don't want to ever spend money at the dealer (does that have a 1 year limit as well?).
One could buy a set of tires, but those do age in storage as well. Motor oil is a possibility, but then you need to store oil for the next 100,000 miles ($50/load, oil change every 10k miles). Stock up on silly hats, T-shirts and key chains? How much are roof carriers?
Worst case, waste it on crazy-priced dealer maintenance: $190 for a brake flush, $200 for a power steering flush, or $225 for a coolant flush! The $86 TDI oil change is the bargain on that list...