If anyone recalls, I posed a question concerning the eligibility of a TDI bought after the settlement date. Upon my understanding of the language we bought 2 more TDIs. A 2009 Jetta for my son and a 2013 Jetta that we would have kept and had repaired if we were wrong about its eligibility for recall. VW bought them all back, no eligible seller was identified so we got the full restitution for each one. With the proceeds we bought a 2017 Golf Sportwagen outright and my son bought a 2004 Jetta TDI and banked about $4000. I thought that I'd miss the mpgs but our Sportwagen gets high 30s consistently and occasionally (when Kathy drives) low 40s. I do miss the torque. I wish we could have found a 4 motion but we were pressed for time because if we didn't have a replacement when we sold back, we would only have my 1997 TDI which I still own with 225,0000 miles on the odometer and still running strong. Now, if the EPA were serious about emissions they would have allowed us to keep the 2009s and bought back every TDI built before that. In the meantime I watch so many diesel pickup trucks "burn coal" as they spew black soot from their "stacks". Real cool dude, nice ride for hauling groceries.
Toyota, Ford, and Chevy and I'm sure a few more had recalls because their defects resulted in immediate death and injury yet they wiggled away with a fine that was way less than VWs. VW owned their issue and promptly settled. In the sleazy world of corporated chicanery I chose to stick with the one that came clean. (puns intended)
Toyota, Ford, and Chevy and I'm sure a few more had recalls because their defects resulted in immediate death and injury yet they wiggled away with a fine that was way less than VWs. VW owned their issue and promptly settled. In the sleazy world of corporated chicanery I chose to stick with the one that came clean. (puns intended)