The Diamondbacks and the county have been arguing for almost a year over who is on the hook for the $187 million that the building needs for repairs

Bad faith breaches are absolutely a thing and exactly how one would assert the “spirit” of the Consent Decree is being breached. It may not be living document in that it’s not subject to change, but it’s absolutely a living document in that it’s subject to the bad faith acts of the parties to it.

Repair? What? I’ve already sold my Touareg’s doors, interior and tail lights on Ebay.

The Touareg is one sweet looking car, though.

It depends on if you like the mods. The noted ones won’t decrease performance or reliability. The ARB bumper set is around 3 grand total. The rack and tent is another couple grand. It is a good deal if you want to overland as these are the upgrades you would want for overlanding and it is less than 5k over market for…

I feel your pain and I certainly don’t blame you for trying to maximize your deal but I think that you are being a little disingenuous. You are going to be trading in your car NOW for what it was supposed to be worth over a year ago. Even without the scandal, your car wouldn’t have been worth $27k today.

“that you went and looked up old posts of mine.”

“Would you consider losing $4500 in two months a good deal?”

I am interested to hear about any cases as well.... for this very reason. My wife wants to keep hers as long as we can... but I was concerned so I talked to my insurance company.

I made the BuyBack Offer argument, but of course the local agent won’t concede anything at all... and they won’t let me talk to the…

Assuming you don’t wreck it.

State Farm has told me, if it is totalled before the buyback, then I get fair market value.... which is alot less than the buyback.

Woo hoo! time to shop finally!

...wow.

“Smoking doesn’t kill. Except for the 1/3 of smokers that it kills. It kills them. But no, smoking doesn’t kill.”

Semi-Autonomous is really the worst of both worlds. I’ll happily have a fully autonomous vehicle someday but having something that can only do 98% of the job and then I have to be prepared to somehow snap back to attention, asses the situation, decide what to do, execute, for the 2% of the time when it can’t do the…

Agreed, figuring an average of $3,000 a year of depreciation waiting until 2018 makes it that much more of a sweet deal. I figure at that time I’ll be selling a 6 year old car maybe worth $12k (pre-scandal) for $24k to VW.

Plus there’s restitution money on top of the buyback value.

I was thinking the exact same thing as you about the mileage. It seems like it makes tremendous sense (economically, not environmentally!) to hang onto my car till the 2018 deadline. But it does seem only fair to allow car owners time to evaluate the fixes VW will do and whether it’s a good idea to take the repair…

That is actually a good point. I like to get things done, but in reality there isn’t much of a rush.

I live in a city and only drive about 500 miles a month on my car, so each additional month I wait reduces my mile basis by 542 miles. If I wait until August 2018 instead of September 2016, I will reduce my mileage by an extra 12.5k miles. I actually will net an additional $1,470 by waiting two more years to turn my…