I saw it happen flying ATL-DCA-ATL this week. Usually, the gate agent doesn’t care (like you said, you could be the first person onboard after they announce Sky and there are already 10-15 people in regular economy), but this time I had 2 separate gate agents tell people they needed to wait.

It happens all the time on Delta.

35%? Haha, try 0.00001%

Literally never.

I’m seeing $18,407 for a ‘13 Jetta with all options and that mileage.

I don’t think people taking the buyback are “suckers” at all. If you turned your car in, you’d receive more money from VW than you paid for it in the first place.

Per the settlement terms, VW had 10 business days to notify users that their documents were complete, then 10 business days to extend an offer letter.

Yes, but the claims website was active starting in late July, and VW themselves bragged about having over 300,000 registered users by mid-September. There is no excusing their complete failure to plan for the large volume of buyback claims they received.

That, and VW’s attorneys made a comment during a 3.0L update hearing in September to the effect of “we’ve had over 300k people sign up on the website, the response has been overwhelmingly positive.”

As long as it runs and drives under its own power, VW does not care at all about condition, so you are fine.

VW doesn’t care about the condition of the cars, as long as the cars run and drive under their own power, they are acceptable under the settlement terms. People have turned in cars that barely run or were in major accidents without issues.

Even when you manage to get through after the hours of waiting, every claim representative sings a different tune. There is no clear information from VW, just more obfuscation, which is quite possibly my greatest frustration with this entire process.

The report referenced in this article is almost 2 weeks old. This is old news.

Huh? The RS4 doesn’t have timing chain issues. It does suffer from carbon buildup, but otherwise the entire drivetrain is bulletproof. There are supercharged ones running around with nearly 700hp on the stock engine.

Well kept E36 M3 = $10-15k.

I bet the Accord is just as fast as the BMW around a circuit.

An S2000 is also a better buy than a 20 year old, slow 3 series that breaks a lot.

He’s paying nearly $.50/mile in maintenance for a car that is as fast as an Accord V-6. Why.

But it’s not a chicken vs. egg scenario

I don’t think it’s that bad at all, but I am (9 times out of 10) in the Pre-Check line, which is 5-10 mins tops and doesn’t involve shoe or laptop removal.