[dean]

The dealer finally got our car running. The high pressure fuel pump exploded. It took the lame dealer 10 days to figure it out after taking the cyl head off and finding nothing wrong with it. The dealer doesn't know how to read trouble codes yet.

The bill came to @ $2100. VW would take $300 of the pump job and the dealer would take $300 off the cyl job. I told them since they misdiagnosed the problem I shouldn't have to pay for the cyl job. I argued with the idiot service writer for a short time and then I told him to buy the car from us. So they did. The Time Bomb/Death Trap is gone. We were very sad to see it go. The car fit us very well. I love the low speed torque of turbodiesels. And the size of the JSW was perfect for us. But VW's stink in terms of reliability. At least the last two Jetta's that we had were terrible in terms of reliability.

It was hard to find a replacement car that fit us. We ended up with a Ford C-Max hymen. I hope we like it. We pick it up today.