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I am going to sell it back but will wait until the last min. I think it's fall 2018. I'm all registered with the settlement so I rather get a few more years out of it. It is sort of a bummer that all these cars will just be crushed.
My car (a VW Jetta Sportwagen) has been very reliable. The only negative I can say about it is that maintenance is expensive. For instance, to flush the DSG transmission costs some obscene amount.I find it very strange that VW got into this, as they're primarily German, and the Germans are very straight shooters. When I was in Germany for a visit, none of them would even jaywalk. Coming from the NYC area, I couldn't take it. I so wanted to walk across the road when I was not supposed to. I forgot that the 3.0 L still has no settlement.
Have you guys seen the pictures of people turning in stripped cars?My other car is a Leaf that is getting off lease in April. I will be replacing it with a Bolt. After that I'll figure out what to replace the VW with.
Lol, reminds me of visiting my sister in Hamburg, we were checking out an "alternative" part of town, lots of folks with tats, etc... it was weird watching them all wait for the light, nobody even thought of jaywalking. Drivers are very unsympathetic though, I was walking along a road in the country and the cars that went by didn't move over to give me room, not an inch. My sister said you're not really supposed to walk there so the drivers just barely avoid hitting you. One nice thing was the bike-only routes, you're not even allowed to walk on them, if a bike hits you it's the pedestrians fault because they shouldn't be on the bike path. Really nice people though... I was also kinda shocked to hear Germans would even think of doing something like cheat on emissions.
I was visiting a friend in a small town in Germany. It was an early weekend morning waiting at a stop light with several strangers with not a vehicle in sight. We were talking about this and he said to me, "if you start walking across, everyone will follow." So I looked both ways and started across, before I put my second foot down, everyone was crossing the street against the red light!
At the start of this case VW claimed that other major automakers did the same, but this important detail seems to have been muffled.
VW seems to be the only auto company that offered diesels in smaller vehicles and I always wondered how they could do this while nobody else could figure out how to do it cost effectively. Seems like a big hint that may not be true, or maybe it is wrt other classes of vehicles. One thing is for sure, their duplicity allowed them to corner the market on smaller diesels. I think Dodge/Cummins is currently being investigated for similar issues, so who knows...