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Turn in TDI Diesel or Wait Until After Election? If Trade, What to Buy?
chickensoup | 10.24.16 | chickensoup

Posted on 10/24/2016 1:53:54 PM PDT by Chickensoup

I have a 2013 Golf TDI Diesel that I have a strong option to give back to Volkswagen.

I have been waiting for the election because I have a feeling that Clinton will continue the leftist policies of crawling up gas prices.

However, I have been looking for a car, just in case. My goodness!

Everything out there is chock full of electronics that will make them obsolete soon.

Everything out there looks like a shiny, overgrown bug.

I think I need something a bit more more butch-looking.

I look longingly at jeep wranglers, but I am told that they are unreliable and break big things like transmissions.

I probably should have four wheel or all wheel drive. Because I live on the snow belt, at the end of a half mile drive way. Although the golf did navigate well.

I have looked at the so called SUVs, and they are just cars, none have a truck frame or the ruggedness I had with my old 90's SUVs.

Is there a vehicle out there that is moderately comfortable, good mileage, little to no electronics, and durable?

Not something that I am expected to work on, because aside from playing with the distributor cap on my old MGB, I try to stay out of from under the hood. I just found out there are no more distributor caps. Shocking!

What is a chickensoup to do?


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To: ml/nj

I live in the woods. Everything is far away, no business write off there.

I don’t whine. I am planning.


61 posted on 10/24/2016 3:44:51 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Chickensoup

Wunderbar indeed! While I live in a Southern State (FL), Takata is talking about bankruptcy as well. I may need to think this again!


62 posted on 10/24/2016 3:48:38 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Chickensoup

Hope they don’t waste those engines ...


63 posted on 10/24/2016 3:53:31 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Chickensoup

*** “I live in the woods. Everything is far away” ***

I am So Jealous

I Love my truck have an old 2003 Dodge 2500 4x4 w a Cummins ... only thing I would have done differently at the beginning is a Manual Trans vice the Auto which is going to cost me about $4,000 sometime in the near future


64 posted on 10/24/2016 4:01:52 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: TexasTransplant

They are supposed to sent them all to the crusher


65 posted on 10/24/2016 4:16:42 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Chickensoup

Sounds like you need a Land Rover.


66 posted on 10/24/2016 4:18:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: RBStealth

No I think it was the second year. or third.

Go ahead.

Leave me to die

alone

in the rain.


67 posted on 10/24/2016 4:18:31 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Chickensoup
What a hoot! I would love it, but my driveway would eat it up. I need something rugged butch.

I suspect that the Golf is more at risk form your driveway than a '73 Duster would be. However, if more ground clearance and all-wheel drive are high on your list, go test-drive a Subaru Outback.

68 posted on 10/24/2016 4:18:45 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: wally_bert

My MG had the Lucas electrical system and slowly I had it replaced with equipment and wiring that actually worked.


69 posted on 10/24/2016 4:22:35 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Charles Martel

The golf has a surprisingly tough suspension. I am bringing it to a local lift to have the underneaths assessed.

That will factor in.

Did try the suubies, no longer rugged cars. Look like old lady cars for the quilting club. Shiny and sweet. Tin foil-ish.

I think I am going to have to go tougher. Just to keep up my reputation as the top chicken.


70 posted on 10/24/2016 4:25:56 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: PAR35

just saw this story on reliability:

Consumer Reports: All-new cars have more problems

Of the bottom 7, 5 are Fiat-Chrysler-Jeep products. (The other two at the bottom are Tesla and GMC).
http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/24/autos/consumer-reports-auto-dependability/index.html

Subaru seems to be moving strongly the wrong direction.

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So the EPA bast**ds are doing to cars what they have done to appliances, made them less effective and useless. So they don’t do the job as well, or for as long.


71 posted on 10/24/2016 4:28:49 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Chickensoup
If,by chance,you dispose of your VW I can highly recommend the BMW 328d (”d” stands for diesel).The thing's solid as a rock,53 (actual) MPG and highly recommended by Consumer Reports Magazine (if that matters to you).
72 posted on 10/24/2016 4:29:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Chickensoup

Sounds like my aunt’s old TR6. It was a sharp looking little car but it collected a lot of dust sitting from being dead.

I’m re-wiring my old Jeep to get things working and to make it future friendly.

http://s1381.photobucket.com/user/Todd4077/library/?sort=3&page=1


73 posted on 10/24/2016 4:29:32 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Gay State Conservative

is it rugged?


74 posted on 10/24/2016 4:29:56 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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To: Chickensoup
is it rugged?

Depends on how you define "rugged".I'm a "cruising at 70MPH" kinda guy because that represents about 95% of my driving.The "d" is an amazing highway cruiser but if you use "rugged" to mean "off road",I've never tried it but my guess is it's not.But apart from routine maintenance it's only visited the shop once so in that sense it is rugged.

75 posted on 10/24/2016 4:37:42 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Chickensoup

Keep the Volkswagen and if you can, ignore the diesel bs. Drive it into the ground.
Great cars.
Cheers,
Jim


76 posted on 10/24/2016 5:24:14 PM PDT by gymbeau (Go America! Without you there is no freedom. Make the free world great again!)
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To: Fai Mao

And, being a Mazda, a blast to drive.
But get the bigger engine.
Cheers,
Jim


77 posted on 10/24/2016 5:38:35 PM PDT by gymbeau (Go America! Without you there is no freedom. Make the free world great again!)
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To: Big Red Badger

The dealer offered me $12,000. I turned him down told him if he wanted to give me the value of a Rubicon, we might talk. My Sahara has Dana 44’s front, and rear.


78 posted on 10/24/2016 5:57:42 PM PDT by SgtBob (Freedom is not for the faint of heart. Semper Fi!)
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To: Chickensoup
they don’t do the job as well, or for as long.

Well, one thing cars do do better than they did a generation or two ago, is last. A new car needed to be cycled after 2 or 3 years, then if someone was handy, they could keep it running another 4 or 5. Now, cars should be expected to run as good as new for 10 years / 120,000 miles (at which point I'd replace the belt and go for another 5, but most will go into the used car pool). Even the hybrids or plug ins should go 5 to 7 years on the factory battery, at which point they may not be worth maintaining.

I've got a car that looked rough when I bought it used 6 years ago and looks like crap after a bad hail storm, but with 160,000 on the odometer purrs along at 75 mph. I try to take it in for service every 30,000, and have told the garage I'll probably get rid of it at about 250,000 rather than replace the belt a second time. So if you need a good car in about 6 years....

79 posted on 10/24/2016 6:02:17 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: gymbeau

“And, being a Mazda, a blast to drive.”

Oh I love it. Great ergonomics in the driver’s seat. Lots of leg room in both front and back and the more truck-like suspension is good on rough roads. My only complaint is that there is sort of a large blind spot where the front roof pillar descends to the body.

I have the smaller engine. The only option is the 6 speed automatic. The highest speed limit here is 45 and most places it is either 25 or 35. I don’t need the car to go very fast. LOL


80 posted on 10/24/2016 6:19:22 PM PDT by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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