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Fish, buyer beware. Guilt has nothing to do with selling someone a used car...they buy it knowing they haven't a clue as to how the car was treated.
As for respect, I implement CRM (Customer Relationship Management) suites for a living. I know all the tricks for retention and/or ending unprofitable relationships. If you're looking to build customer loyalty obviously you don't play your consumers. If it's a one time deal though, you might as well screw the consumer and get as much profit as possible.
Blueguydotcom, why don't you just keep those kind of comments out of your messages, and we'll all get along better.
We talk about Jettas here. Heh.
BTW, I checked my 20k service list and it shows that Drew VW supposedly changed my pollen filter. Did it go bad that fast? Doubtful. Guess it's a trip back there...argh.
Well my guess is they didn't do it. Or they screwed something else up. Gee, there's a thought, a VW stealership lying about service? Nah, Vocus doesn't know anything about that kinda experience.
VW is trying, I will give them that. They just need to tone down some of their dealers. But show me one establishment where the workers don't talk about the customers behind their backs. The one guy just got caught with his pants down, that's all.
I was just at a VWVortex regional meeting last night with about a dozen other people. 5 of them had brand new 2000+ VW Jettas or Golfs. NONE of them have had their cars in the shop. All their jaws dropped when I told them I had mine in the shop about 12 times for rattles and such. I know I got a cloppily built car. There would be no way that every Jetta would go through the crap mine has gone through and still be one of the best selling cars out there, and have the highest (or close to it) resale value in its class.
And like everyone else says, most people are going to come and complain on a site like this than praise.
But check alot of the other boards here on Edmunds, there are always more complaints than praise, it seems.
Oh...to keep this on topic, my GF's '91 Jetta bites. I wish they'd (her and her sister) sell the thing for scrap already. Passenger door won't open from the outside and the fan inside sounds like a wailing banshee.
Oh...and there's a belt that squeals at times...which is great because you know that it's their Jetta coming around the corner from a block away.
And it is over 10 years old, things break...
Meade
Depending on how this car holds up within the next year, I might invest in an extended warranty for it. Labor and parts are so expensive nowadays (esp. for a Euro car) that it would be dumb not to have one.
Obviously everything about you falls into the "exceptional" category.
Meade
Sounds like you need a either a new exterior latch or interior locking mechanism. $15-50.
The fan sound may be because it is about to go. I cannot remember the replacement cost, but it is easy to replace yourself.
"Oh...and there's a belt that squeals at times...which is great because you know that it's their Jetta coming around the corner from a block away."
There is this revolutionary new product called belt dressing - try it!
Huh? It isn't about me, it's about my Dad's car. To be honest, I don't see how that is "exceptional". A car should last at least 11 years if you take care of it and put on a regular amount of miles.
Anyway, the car was eventually sold and I still see it running around Richmond from time to time. Your recent comment in response to mine about using a loofah made me think of that car for some reason, and I thought this would be a better place to post my story about it than the other discussion.
If I ever find a pic of that Golf, I'll e-mail it to you.
Meade
I have never seen any Golfs painted that way. I bet it would look cool though.
I don't ever expect a car to last me 11 years, simply because I put 25-30K miles a year on it. They are all highway miles though, so that's a good thing. But still. I also get tired of driving the same car all the time as well. Not tired of my Jetta yet though...
Most recently, it's had the clutch replaced (they wanted to replace the whole tranny), muffler replaced for a 3rd time, rattling from some heat shield (rocks we're told), doors that won't open, squealing belts (that's been happening for years even though we've replaced all the belts), and the heater fan that wails like a banshee.
It really is time to get rid of it. My parent's '90 ('91?)MPV had over 300 000 km on it and it was much better. Sure it was starting to go, but it was in much better shape than the Jetta and I can say for certain that my dad didn't baby that thing.
Oh well...at least the crank windows and crank sunroof still open ok....for now.
protegefan: I hope it wasn't a tradein from blueguydotcom!
multi colored cars: I usually think of junkyard repair parts bin queens waiting for a paint job!
http://www.rossvw.com/harlequin/
Meade
It really does look like a "junkyard special".
Do you have a GLX?
Where's the champagne?
Meade
P.S. Paul, lemme have at least as much fun as you have telling all of us on the Protege topic what you use to clean your leather. Yeah, we notice those little brags you sneak in now and then!
"Aliens from the planet Lemon...Communications with the mothership....run if you see lights"
Lol!
that Golf is indeed still around these parts. see it in Richmond and NoVa at least twice a year. god awful ugly in my opinion.
drmilhous -
rest easy. that is your clock just being flirtatious. mine does it too. for EXACTLY one minute at a time. that symbol is fun looking, but their is nothing mentioned in the signal decoder in the manual. your own special signal. think of it that way