So the '11 TDI Sportwagen was rapidly approaching its dieselgate extended warranty expiration, had quite a bit of expensive future (and deferred?) maintenance that was going to start hitting so we struck while the iron was hot and dumped it back on VW to deal with. Trade in offer was excellent to where it cost ~$4900 to drive it for a little over 3 years or ~$136/month. It seemed to be a great buy back a little over 3 years ago but the reality was that sitting and rotting away unused for multiple years then the "fix" to be resold which caused all its own issues made probably all these resold buybacks basket cases - I wish I was an accountant at VWoA to see how much dieselgate warranty claims have cost the company.
Test drove 4 cars over the weekend - 2012 Mercedes C300 4Matic, 2014 Audi A4 Quattro, 2017 Jetta Sport manual and 2017 Jetta GLI manual. Of all the cars test driven the GLI was the winner within 2 miles of the test drive, even over the more luxurious Audi and Mercedes. Neither of the luxury cars felt like the right fit for him in his words whereas the Jetta's felt right. Hey lower service costs and its not my car so I wasn't going to question it.
So here she/he is - 2017 Jetta GLI. 65k miles, VW certified (2/24 warranty), manual trans. Carfax is clean and appears to have been a VWoA employee lease, regular service at VW dealers with the only hiccups being the radio head unit being replaced under warranty twice. We always joked and hated on the VWAG corporate 2.0T since it is in everything under the VWAG sun but once driving it the tune apparently changed, I still need to get behind the wheel to see what the hoopla is about.
Test drove 4 cars over the weekend - 2012 Mercedes C300 4Matic, 2014 Audi A4 Quattro, 2017 Jetta Sport manual and 2017 Jetta GLI manual. Of all the cars test driven the GLI was the winner within 2 miles of the test drive, even over the more luxurious Audi and Mercedes. Neither of the luxury cars felt like the right fit for him in his words whereas the Jetta's felt right. Hey lower service costs and its not my car so I wasn't going to question it.
So here she/he is - 2017 Jetta GLI. 65k miles, VW certified (2/24 warranty), manual trans. Carfax is clean and appears to have been a VWoA employee lease, regular service at VW dealers with the only hiccups being the radio head unit being replaced under warranty twice. We always joked and hated on the VWAG corporate 2.0T since it is in everything under the VWAG sun but once driving it the tune apparently changed, I still need to get behind the wheel to see what the hoopla is about.