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View submission: the German fascist regime promoting the "people's car" 80 years ago
My wife had one of the Passat TDIs affected and that car was awesome. The car was already paid off, so with the buy out and then class action, it was better financially to just get a new car, or else my daughter would probably be driving it now. I loved that car though.
Comment by Cranksta at 12/03/2025 at 14:24 UTC
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If I had been in your position, I probably would have taken the buy-out too. Just too many unknowns in play at that time.
As it is, I'm glad to have picked it up for the cheap (TDI reputation plus no A/C in a desert really brought the price down) and I love it. I just loaded our Jetta up with lumber and cinder blocks yesterday, and an entire trunk full of soil the day before. Took it on a 600 mile trip about two weeks ago. I'll be doing another one next month and I'm looking forward to it since it'll be in the TDI and I know it'll only cost me about $40 in diesel and be comfortable the entire time.
I really want to see it roll over 400k miles, then see how much further than that I can push it. We're planning on getting a TDI Touareg next year or the year after to have something that can tow better. I love this stupid thing. I want more of them.