Sold Me A Lemon - Symboliceon
Robert Peixinho seemed like a nice, honest guy. I even believed him when he told me that, "just last night" someone had come in and offered him cash for the full cost (not -value-, of course) of the car I was interested in, but since he was such an "old school" kinda genuine, authentic guy he said that he'd reserved it for me! Wow!
Anyway, got the car. 2009 Jetta Wolfsburg worth about $4k less, apparently, than he was selling it for. I didn't know that; naive from not having owned a car in about 12 years. That's cool, I liked my car. A lot. It enabled me to go to all sorts of cool places I hadn't been able to for a long time. That is, until the engine died 7 months later on 90W (just before 84, so, middle of nowhere) during one of the coldest ('15-'16) winters I've ever experienced. Turned out it had some irreparable carbon build up and had to be scrapped. Any idea how much replacing a 2.0T engine on a Jetta Wolfsburg costs? I do. It's about $3k out of pocket, plus the $2500 the warranty covered...so it's a good thing he sold me on that, too. The guy who did the work had some hilarious things to say about "whatever dbag sold you this thing."
There have been other smaller issues, most of which can be attributed to it just being an older car, but the reason I'm writing this review -now- is I've got some time to kill; I'm at Firestone getting new tires, and it's taking a while. Why? The key to unlock the wheels is MIA. They're in the process of forcing the wheels off now. Sweet!
Thanks, Bob!
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