I will start off by saying, I truly LOVE my new car! Just a few days before Christmas we got a brand-spakin-new company car-a VW Jetta-and it is FABULOUS!!
With that said, however, I didn't realize how difficult (or expensive) a simple oil change for a car could be. Would you believe $130? Yup! Thank goodness we aren't paying for it, but still, honestly? Apparently, Volkswagen has decided that the 2009 Jetta's need new, expensive, not-easily-available-in-the-US oil. It took Cory about 2 days just to find somewhere in Cedar City that would be willing to order in the super-special oil (it comes in a gold bottle even!). We are VERY greatful they were willing to order the oil for us, because the next resort would have been taking it to the dealership for an oil change, in LAS VEGAS (a mere 2 1/2 hour drive)!!
Now, the check engine light is on (has been since my drive home from Phoenix last weekend, which reminds me, I need to post about that trip too...) and they tried to figure out why when they were changing the oil, only it was giving out a "Volkwagen specific" (another term for super-secret) code that Tunex didn't have the skills (meaning: up-to-date computer database) to "decode".
So, we called the dealership to see if they could tell us what the code meant, so we could decide how quickly we needed to take it in to get checked, and they (the dealership) don't even know what the code means because it is so new. They told us we will need to bring it in and have them hook it up to their "special secret-decoding machine" to figure out what it means. GEEZ!
Like I said, I LOVE the new car, but all of this has been a little ridicuous. Hopefully by the time we are ready to buy the car, all of the kinks will be worked out, and we won't have to fork out $130 for an oil change either!
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Yeah wow. That's a lot. Aren't you so glad you don't have to pay for it?!
Yuck-o! Gotta love those new, cutting edge cars...
But it's just sooo cool!!!
Chris is running into the same thing with his car so he has taken to learning how to do the basic maintainance as much as he can to cut down some of those costs.
UPDATE...We took it up to SL to the dealership on Thursday, and they said they would have to pull the head off the engine to figure out what is wrong with it. We drove a rental home. I just got a call from the dealership saying the car is ready, so Cory will go pick it up tomorrow. I will be so glad to have it back! :O)
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