Bought a 14 Passat from here on a saturday the very next - jbelsha
Bought a 14 Passat from here on a saturday the very next day we started having lights and low oil pressure warnings on. Called the dealer the following Mon. and they said if it pops on again we will have to get it in to look at it. It did come back on so I called, they took it in and said it was because of bad oil so they claimed to have changed it. Even put a new sticker on the window and gave me a print out stating oil change. I dont know why the oil wasn't changed before in went on the lot for sale seeing as the tag on the window from Valvoline said it was due in 1000 miles. Oil change is cheap and a good thing for a customer to see. But any ways......
When I went to pick the car up oil change is what they claimed. I laughed and said ok. Couple days later warnings are on again, ended up having the car towed to a VW shop. Long story short after diag from the shop the engine is SHOT. And was told "someone had recently replaced both oil pressure sensors". This shop is unable to get to the car for at least a month so we went to another VW shop which did their own diag. Sent me full write up and pictures. The "new oil change" that didnt even have 500 miles on it looked like 8k mile oil and was full of metal flakes. As well as A.H. claims to have safety inspected the car yet we found that one of the rear control arms is rotted out. I mention this to him and he says "I guess we missed that". He did offer to trade the car out for another car off the lot. But my son did not like any of the cars there accept a Jetta which I could CLEARLY tell had been flooded. And i found cars with loose body panels and parts held on by hose clamps. Or the cars were very high mileage and high priced for what they were. When I explained every thing that shows this was a flooded car that simply had not been reported to carfax they said "all we can do is go off the car fax which is clean." There was dried mud in the truck, around the door cards, and in the seats. This is just a shortened version of the full story. We are done and set with the car, only putting this out there for others to see and be very warry, take what ever you are looking at to a shop. I know what im doing, I drove this car for an hour before buying and nothing seemed wrong, no lights, and no warnings. There were no codes in the computer (thinking they had been deleted) When both shops had read all the codes that showed up the very next day after we bought the car (not even 24 hrs later) and all reported low oil pressures.
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