Meh

I think i said it somewhere else but I’ll say it again. VW should not be permitted to depreciate these cars past September 2015. After the scandal broke owners like me were unable to trade in at all to VW, and other dealers were happy to offer 25% less that what we owed and say they were doing me a “favor.” I was…

I’m in the same boat. To those that say this is nonsense consider families like mine. Our TDI was our only car in Sept of ‘14. We were working with VW to trade it in before it hit 60k. Then the news dropped. VW refused to execute a trade, other dealers lowballed even declining KBB and Edmunds values. We STILL can’t…

If I wanted to “wear the pants” and not make decisions jointly, I’d have skipped getting married. But I love my wife. So. We make decisions together. We both pay the bills. True, she’s not nuts about pick-ups like me, but chances are she’ll ride in it, drive it, depend on it, buckle the kids up in it, and of course…

You’d be required to submit title with the car at buyback. VW would assert, as had toyota after the frame rust buyback, that you bought the car aware of the issue and settlement and therefor would not be subject to buyback or compensation. Likely a fix, however.

NPR is reporting “Breyer ordered that the details of the agreement remain confidential until it is finalized — likely sometime this summer... The judge also said drivers who have leased the vehicles in question will be able to end those leases.”

I have a 2013 Jetta Sportwagen TDI. Got the works and admittedly, paid way too much at purchase so I’m sour about that. Also had a few nagging reliability issues, so sour there, too. All said and done, the car has been ok. I’m not enamored. Days before the scandal broke we were looking at trading the car in to our…