The mileage adjustment is designed to “backdate” your mileage to what they assume it was at in September of 2015. For the purposes of this calculation, they presume you drive 1042 miles per month (the equivalent of 12,500 miles per year). So whenever you sell you car back, they will take the number of months that have…

Does it still count if the mispronunciation is so prevalent that the company itself has given up and just accepted the mispronunciation?

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but why would the DNC have records on peoples’ Social Security Numbers and Passport numbers at all?

How can you post that quote without also including the very next line?! It makes it SO MUCH WORSE:

Yeah, the total package of compensation seems pretty fair to me. I am planning on keeping my car for as long as possible, and then selling it back just before the deadline in September 2018. That will result in me owning my car for 6 years, putting about 60k miles on it, and then selling it back to VW for about $500…

Your argument on the buyback price seems reasonable enough, but where you lose me is that you should get the full additional $5100+ too. What are those additional damages for? When you are making your case to the judge for the damages, what is your explanation for why you deserve that additional $5100+? Can you point…

How much compensation do you think you should receive?

Why is it relevant when the miles were put on the car? You think that owners should get unlimited free miles after September 2015?

We get penalized unfairly for the additional mileage that is now accumulating after Sept 2015.

Our offer takes a hit because we have a manual (thanks, NADA).

If your wife likes the car, why do anythig right now? You have until September 2018 to sell it back, and the buyback price doesn’t drop at all in that time, unless you exceed 12,500 miles/year (and even then it doesn’t drop too much). Drive the car for another two years without any depreciation, while also paying down…

The fact that they are only paying trade-in initially irked me too, but I think that they more than make up for it when they back-date your miles. You can basically drive your car without any depreciation at all for the next two years, as long as you drive less than 12,500 miles/year.

I’m selling mine, but I am going to wait as long as possible to do it. Since they are paying the same amount whether you sell it back now or in September 2018, and they are spotting you 12,500 miles/year in the mean time, the buyback is just way too good of a deal to give up. The way the mileage calculations are set…

This is incorrect, the mileage adjustment is based on an assumed mileage as of September 2015. When you sell your car back, they take the current mileage, and then subtract 1042 miles for every month that has elapsed after September 2015 (which is the equivalent of 12,500 miles/year). If you sell your car back this…

Nuts, isn’t it? I can’t believe they actually designed a system that encourages people to keep the cars on the road for two more years.

The buyback price was developed based off of the NADA “clean trade-in” value in September 2015. I haven’t seen anything that says the car actually has to be in “clean” condition, though.

I posted this in another thread, but will post here too - I know that using the bought-back TDIs for a spec TDI racing series is suggested in jest (we all know VW would never actually do this) but consider this:

I don’t think you should be taxed unless your compensation from VW is more than your adjusted basis in the car. For most people, their adjusted basis is what they paid for the car in the first place. It could be lower if, for example, you used it for business purposes and previously took depreciation deductions for…

Yeah, I am curious about that too. I would guess that, at the very least, your insurance would have to pay you the full VW settlement amount (less your deductible), because if there is a standing offer from VW to buy your car for that amount, the insurance company is going to have a real hard time arguing that it is…

Two things I find incredibly interesting about these calculations: