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Mr645 wrote:
I did Lemon Law once here in Florida, sort of. I had a 1998 VW GTI and had a lot of problems. Suspension, paint, wheels, rattles, leaks. Anyway I applied to have the car bought back under the Florida Lemon law and VW offered to settle with me by paying me $4500 and buying back the car for the balance owed. The rep from VW actually met me at a Honda dealer with a check for me and took the car. So technically it was not a Lemon Law case, but that's how it started.
On my last VW, a 2008 R32, VW paid 8 lease payments over the 4 years I drove the car. This time mostly transmission related, but a few other things as well.
wait a second, you got another VW?
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Too bad it took three years but glad it worked out.
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Back in 2000 we bought a new Winnebago Rialta RV from a dealer in Buda, Texas. After a couple of short shakedown trips we headed out in June for a five week 7000 mile trip to the Pacific Northwest and western Canada. We had lots of small problems and a couple of biggies including an exploding A/C line going over a mountain pass in BC and a thrown fan blade in southern Utah. The latter required a 250 mile tow to the nearest VW dealer in Flagstaff, AZ. We were going to have to wait a week for a new fan, but the kind sales manager agreed to robbing a fan blade off a new unit in their lot. We were unable to get the A/C fixed during the trip in spite of stops at many Winnebago and VW dealers due to long waits for parts and disagreement between VW and Winnebago as to who was responsible for the repair. The trip from Flagstaff back to our home near San Antonio with no A/C was pure hell with temperature reaching 125 in the cab.
We sued Winnebago, VW, and Crestview RV under deceptive trade practices rather than the Lemon Law to avoid having to pay for miles driven. We won in mediation after three long years of hassling and were given a new Ford based model, which we promptly traded on a Monaco diesel pusher.
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saintyohann wrote:
Now that I have time to wait, I've been waiting for the Ford C-Max Energi, and checking out the Rav4 EV and Ford Focus EV.
Hold out for the Tesla Model S. 
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Model S is great, but too wide to fit in my garage. Waiting for the Gen 3 Teslas.
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space-time wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
I did Lemon Law once here in Florida, sort of. I had a 1998 VW GTI and had a lot of problems. Suspension, paint, wheels, rattles, leaks. Anyway I applied to have the car bought back under the Florida Lemon law and VW offered to settle with me by paying me $4500 and buying back the car for the balance owed. The rep from VW actually met me at a Honda dealer with a check for me and took the car. So technically it was not a Lemon Law case, but that's how it started.
On my last VW, a 2008 R32, VW paid 8 lease payments over the 4 years I drove the car. This time mostly transmission related, but a few other things as well.
wait a second, you got another VW?
I figured it was ten years later............ I really like the way German cars drive, but I hate the poor quality. Been through BMW, VW and Volvo(I know, not German) and the quality of all of teh cars is poor.
We just leased a new MB C250 and a Subaru WRX. So far so good. No more VW's for quite a while
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Mr645 wrote: No more VW's for quite a while
Me either because I expect to get another 20 years out of the two I currently have.
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Speedy wrote:
[quote=Mr645]No more VW's for quite a while
Me either because I expect to get another 20 years out of the two I currently have.
I know people who have had VW's go for years and years with no problems so I figured after my 1998 mess, I was due for a good one. My R32 had tons of problems too. Mostly transmission related. VW did take care of everything, paying me for 8 months lease over the years, & extending my powertrain warranty to 10 years, unlimited milage. In the end the transmission still did not work right. In addition the Haldex AWD system main control unit failed twice, the rack and pinion unit of the steering had to be replaced and I got stranded once with a fuel tank failure when it developed a major fuel leak. I also had a wire harness failure because a retaining clip was not installed properly when the car was built. Everything was fixed pretty much in 1-2 days because VW would overnight parts from Germany when needed. Except the wire harness which took 8 days because they had to make one in Germany and ship it here, and the second time the Haldex control unit failed they brought someone in to review it because it failed twice in two months.
The dealer always provided loaner cars and when the wire harness went out (Airbag system inop) and the in house Enterprise was out of cars, the service manager called VW and quickly was authorized to take a brand new VW out of inventory and give me an extended (8 day) test drive. The dealer and VW did a great job, can't complain, but the car had a few more issues then I would have liked.
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