God, I’d LOVE to be a washed-up 25 year old millionaire.

Yeah, I know. That’s why lessees (myself included) aren’t swapping components in our cars. But if I owned the car, I would take the opportunity to sell my sports seats and 17 inch wheels. As a lessee, I am just thrilled I get out of the lease early, since I haven’t needed this car for the last year. This has worked…

I wouldn’t want any dealership employee or transportation trucker having to sit on a milk crate, or being stuck jumping a dead car, but short of that, the condition of these cars doesn’t matter to these people. It isn’t their property/problem beyond having to help VW store them for some amount of time.

It sounds like the historic reality of situations just like this.

I’m sure he’ll being feeling that burn all the way to the bank after he sells off all those parts.

Define “Deal with.” Do you mean they have to find a place to park them until VW picks them up?

The dealership doesn’t care and, more importantly has no say in the matters of the lawsuit.

If it wasn’t the owners doing it, it will be the employees of whichever dealership these cars are stored at until VW picks them up.

Nah, but there will be more specific verbiage in the legal documents outlining what constitutes an acceptable vehicle.

Yeah, the tire tread struck me a noticeably fresh for a car being stripped. He shouldn’t gone with some steelies instead of clean stock wheels/tires.

Next thing you know, he’ll ride a motorcycle!

It won’t affect the dealers much at all. Dealers may have to house the cars for a short time, while VW figures out where to put them all, but the dealers have no skin in this game. Dealers are simply a location to help facilitate the buyback process.

Same. I just had my lease inspection done today (DON’T TURN IT IN WITHOUT AN INSPECTION! They are still having the lease inspections done at the dealership, even if you don’t schedule one yourself.) and I was thinking, “If I swapped the seats for non-sports package, would it come back to bite me if/when VW/Audi found…

No, you’re still crazy.

How is this different than the employer expecting you to answer emails when you’re at home?

Interviewer: I see here, Mr. Garland, you currently ride the bus. Tell me about that.

Because the boss insists that everyone be present for that one meeting where they talk about something that can’t possibly be done via a conference call and has the super important PP slide deck with all of the impossible-to-understand graphs that require in-person explaining.

Exactly. This is already a reality for people who commute to/from work on a company-provided shuttle (Google is a prime example). If you can get work done on your hour long commute home, then leave the office an hour earlier, or come in an hour later, or whatever. Just don’t meet the super important 10:30 conference…

You can’t get what you don’t ask for! haha.

“Happy Honda Days” everyone!