Have you ever owned a Volkswagon

[kcoop35]

My step daughter is looking at buying one. 2007 with 125,000 for $5,500. Our family has had a couple, and they seem pretty reliable. She is looking for a good college car that get to and from Ames.

 

[kcoop35]

Are they more expensive to service as in brakes, starters, things specific to a Volkswagon engine? Does that have to be done at a volkswagon garage? I assume they can get an oil change anywhere.

 

[The_Joker13]

pic of daughter?

 

[swagsurfer02]

I thought about a Passat at one point.

 

[Wendy79]

Find an older Corolla or Accord.

 

[JWolf74]

Ames?

Clearly you have failed as a parent.

 

[kcoop35]

Ames?

Clearly you have failed as a parent.

This is only a very small portion of how much I have failed! Teenagers...ugh

 

[UNIowaHawk]

Find an older Corolla or Accord.

Look, more echo chamber talk!

 

[jellyfish10]

2000 black Jetta, manual. Great, great car.

 

[SSG T]

My oldest son has a 2004 Jetta. I agree with jelly, great car. Had it for 4 years, never had anything done other than standard maintenance.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Owned a 85 Golf....drove it for 12 years and 210,000 miles. Sold it for $500.

Loved that car...

 

[Herkmeister]

pic of daughter?

Joker, just so you know, with your Avatar, when you ask to see a pic of a guy's daughter, it even creeps me out. And it's not a little creepy. Its A LOT CREEPY!!!!

 

[Herkmeister]

I had a VW Fastback back in the 70's. It rocked. Then one night, just before dark, I'm driving down the main drag of my home town and I smell smoke. (Not the illegal kind of smoke I relished in those days, but house fire like plastic smoke.) I suddenly realized my dash board was smoking profusely. I jumped out of the car and it bursts into fire. I was pretty bummed. (The car's name was not Brad and I did not love it.)

 

[N_fuego]

Why not go for a TSI diesel model? They've come down pretty dramatically in price recently.

 

[jaffarosenfels]

Get her a Sportwagen TDI in a 6 speed manual transmission. Your welcome.

 

[Hawk in SEC Country]

I've had a few.

61 Beetle
68 Beetle
72 Super Beetle
64 Karmann Ghia
2001 Jetta
2004 Passat
2008 Passat

I've had nothing but good luck with my VW's. Of course the Air Cooled V Dubs are my favorite and super reliable.
My Jetta and Passats have all been great. NO major issues.

The former Mrs SEC has a 2015 convertible Bug.

 

[Honda Hawk]

For what its worth I worked for a dealer in CF that didn't take a VW in on trade for about a year. Anything they'd take in had electrical issues and the mechanics/customers were livid. This was around '09/10.

 

[JWolf74]

I've had a few.

The former Mrs SEC has a 2015 convertible Bug.

Pic?

 

[GES4]

My step daughter is looking at buying one. 2007 with 125,000 for $5,500. Our family has had a couple, and they seem pretty reliable. She is looking for a good college car that get to and from Ames.

'74 Super Beetle (orange)
'95 GTI
'08 GTI
'13 Golf R

Great cars. I got ~120k miles each out of the two GTIs and sold them both for decent money.

 

[jellyfish10]

A www crap we did have one problem. In 2002 we were driving to DM to carpool to the KC airport. We screwed up in our Orange Bowl planning and had to fly from KC to J'Ville. Anywho, when we got to DM I rolled the windows down to fly my Hawkeye flags. Upon rolling them up, the motor fried and the window slowly sank into the door. We ended up leaving it at a dealership after hours with a note hoping for the best. Thankfully it was taken care of when we returned but overall we loved that car./csb

Bought my daughter an 09 Subaru Legacy. Great car when she isn't running into shit.

 

[ICWestfan]

72 Beetle. Floor in the back seat rusted out. This was super handy when pulled over by the po po as you could lift the floor cover and set your goods on the cement. Sucked in the winter though as the heater was non-existant.

 

[NoleSoup4U]

Find an older Corolla or Accord.

THIS! I drive an older Corolla and it's damn near 200k miles and still going strong. I'll drive that car until the wheels fall off.

 

[hexumhawk]

Wife has had an 02 Jetta and a 07 Jetta. Never had any major problem with either.

Both well over 100,000 miles on them each. Wish we wouldn't have traded in the 02 and just kept it.

 

[NoleandDawg]

I had a 72 bug when I was stationed in Panama in 1990. When I transferred to Puerto Rico I upgraded to a 74 Super Beetle.

 

[BelemNole]

I've owned a lot of VWs. I liked them all but they aren't cheap to maintain. Hell, they even require a special volkswagon only type of coolant. Once they get up over 100k miles they start to get expensive to own.

 

[Hawk in SEC Country]

Pic?

 

[unIowa]