Back in a TDI

Kinja'd!!! by "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
Published 05/06/2017 at 22:03

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The past two days have been interesting in the way of cars are concerned for me. So I’ll start my story here for anyone who doesn’t know me. A few years ago I bought a 2013 Jetta TDI 6spd. I loved that car. Drove the hell out of it, about 25-30k miles a year. When the buy back came up I was torn because I knew anything not diesel would be the same for me. But I took the money and ran and bought a new Passat. That car has been great. It is a real looker for a sedan and it has lots of fun toys.

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In this time I also have moved to a new house, my first house at that. I have been seeing the space of a wagon or SUV would be really nice. SUV is out of the picture because I drive too much but the next thought was a Golf Sportwagon or a Golf Alltrack. So over the weekend I hit up my local dealer to test drive an all track with absolutely no intentions of buying anything since it was more than I wanted to spend, but I just wanted to test the water and see the trade in on my car would be since its less than a year old. So I stopped in my local dealer and walk to an all track, the sales guy walks out to me as usual and I start playing around in the interior, Then I see it. It was a 2015 Golf TDI Sportwagen. The ones that were just approved to be resold. I asked him if this one was for sale and what was the deal. He said its one of the only ones he does not have that is spoken for. I look at it and we talk about all of the VW incentive including 0% financing . I decided to have them appraise my car and I took it for a spin.

I fell back in love. It was just like the jetta but a bit more spirited to drive and it had loads of cargo space. I knew that moment if they gave me the right money for my trade in I was gunna pull the trigger. Sure enough they offered me 1500 more than I wanted and I got approved for the 0% and my payments want down about 80 a month. Needless to say I took the sport wagon home. While I will miss the passat I knew the TDI is the unicorn worth keeping. I had literally no plans of getting rid of my car so soon but it just fell into line so now I am one of the few TDI owners left in existence. A wagon at that. Only thing I wish is that it was a manual but I can’t lie, the DSG trans is great 100x better than the auto in my passat. Any way that is my story from today. Next thing is, I am one of the few people who bought a new 2015 TDI in 2017, what do you want to know oppo ?

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Replies (12)

Kinja'd!!! "avalonian" (avalonain19)
05/06/2017 at 22:27, STARS: 0

Potential Mods? And overall perspective, I’m thinking of getting my sister one of those.

Kinja'd!!! "Probenja" (probenja)
05/06/2017 at 22:34, STARS: 0

VW also started selling the Canadian leftover stock of the TDI Golf/Jetta here in Chile. It’s nice that the US ones can be resold and live a happy life again so they don’t have to be scrapped.

Kinja'd!!! "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
05/06/2017 at 22:34, STARS: 0

I have a few mods in mind. For looks I’m thinking GTI front facia and wheels. As far as performance probably just a tune. But yeah the deals are very good

Kinja'd!!! "avalonian" (avalonain19)
05/06/2017 at 22:36, STARS: 0

Cool, tint for this one I presume as well?

Kinja'd!!! "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
05/06/2017 at 22:36, STARS: 0

Yeah I’m happy too, if I would have knon that was going to be the case I might not have bought the Passat at all and would have waited or bought a cheap temporary car until now But oh well I have my diesel now

Kinja'd!!! "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
05/06/2017 at 23:09, STARS: 0

Of course. Tint will probably be in a few weeks

Kinja'd!!! "Svend" (svend)
05/06/2017 at 23:25, STARS: 0

Nice one fella. Glad you like it.

Also, is that tree debris in the pillars of the tailgate?

Kinja'd!!! "C62030" (c62030)
05/06/2017 at 23:28, STARS: 0

Username checks out.

Kinja'd!!! "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
05/07/2017 at 10:29, STARS: 0

Yes it is, I need to clean that out. These cars sat at the dealer for nearly two years before it could be sold

Kinja'd!!! "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
05/07/2017 at 10:30, STARS: 0

Well my old name was TDIGuy

And I think I’m gunna change it back

Kinja'd!!! "Svend" (svend)
05/07/2017 at 14:26, STARS: 0

You’d of thought the dealership would of seen it and gave it a full clean.

Never mind.

I hope you enjoy your new Golf TDi.

Kinja'd!!! "TDIGuy" (owenrosier)
05/07/2017 at 16:23, STARS: 1

Yeah I know I think they were lazy about it because it was cold and rainy when I bought it