How can Vokswagen afford seling cars 10K below MSRP all the time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They make up the money in parts & repairs.

I owned a Jetta while in college and those parts costs and repair bills are high! And that was me getting a family discount through my uncle's shop. Very little wiggle room on parts pricing for discounts to be passed through to the customer.

I'd never own another VW.

Yup.

My mechanic who only works on and drives VW's and goes to Europe for VW events claims they underprice their cars in the states because they make so much money on parts and also on maintenance through their US network.

Our VW has been an absolute nightmare - things are just constantly breaking though miraculously everything worked fine until the warranty ran out.

Constant problems with the heating and cooling and it seems like every part of the suspension system has had to be replaced. We've put 8K into the car in the last 4 years - obviously if we knew it would come out to that much we never would have sunk that much money.

The car still drives as nicely as when we bought it and the mileage is still excellent (we have a pre-scandel Diesel) but we will certainly not buy another VW and discourage anyone else from doing the same and their Consumer Reports ratings are terrible as well.

[Anonymous]

Many of the online VW prices at local dealers (I'm looking at you, Alexandria VW) are not real. They fold all possible discounts into those e-prices--student discount, previous VW owner discount, active duty military discount, whatever--to get you in the door.

Now, at certain VW dealers and with certain models you still might be able to get that price or better after some pushing, because yeah, they are still trying to come back after the diesel scandal.

To me the real VW values are the refitted/reprogrammed for emissions compliance diesel cars from 2012-2014. Those are mostly low mileage because so many people turned them in during the recall. Jetta and Jetta sportwagens from that era are now being sold with a CPO warranty for like $8-10k at every VW dealer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They make up the money in parts & repairs.

I owned a Jetta while in college and those parts costs and repair bills are high! And that was me getting a family discount through my uncle's shop. Very little wiggle room on parts pricing for discounts to be passed through to the customer.

I'd never own another VW.

Yup.

My mechanic who only works on and drives VW's and goes to Europe for VW events claims they underprice their cars in the states because they make so much money on parts and also on maintenance through their US network.

Our VW has been an absolute nightmare - things are just constantly breaking though miraculously everything worked fine until the warranty ran out.

Constant problems with the heating and cooling and it seems like every part of the suspension system has had to be replaced. We've put 8K into the car in the last 4 years - obviously if we knew it would come out to that much we never would have sunk that much money.

The car still drives as nicely as when we bought it and the mileage is still excellent (we have a pre-scandel Diesel) but we will certainly not buy another VW and discourage anyone else from doing the same and their Consumer Reports ratings are terrible as well.

Are you working for the competition?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many of the online VW prices at local dealers (I'm looking at you, Alexandria VW) are not real. They fold all possible discounts into those e-prices--student discount, previous VW owner discount, active duty military discount, whatever--to get you in the door.

Now, at certain VW dealers and with certain models you still might be able to get that price or better after some pushing, because yeah, they are still trying to come back after the diesel scandal.

To me the real VW values are the refitted/reprogrammed for emissions compliance diesel cars from 2012-2014. Those are mostly low mileage because so many people turned them in during the recall. Jetta and Jetta sportwagens from that era are now being sold with a CPO warranty for like $8-10k at every VW dealer.

Yes. What others say about the breaking and running out of warranty period is BS because the prices are so low now, on NEW VOLKSWAGEN CARS come with 6 yr/72,000 mi Warranty!!!!! So if they make so much money on parts, they must be making that money on themselves.

[Anonymous]

https://www.vw.com/warranty/

From the VW website:

Volks, then wagen. People, then car. That’s our philosophy, and that means being there for our customers long after they drive off the lot. That’s why we offer America’s Best Car and SUV Bumper-to-Bumper Transferable Warranty on almost all of our 2018 models.5 The Volkswagen 6 years/72,000 (whichever occurs first) Miles New Vehicle Limited Warranty.6 It’s perfect for America’s best customers.

[Anonymous]

Mike drop!

[Anonymous]

I owned one. They will make up that 10k times 3 in maintenance and repairs.

[Anonymous]

Oh look another car salesperson found this website.

[Anonymous]

Lol where are all the car salespeople coming from? God did they find this forum?

[Anonymous]

Audi line has the largest profit of any car mass produced.
That is why it makes it so hard for me to buy an Audi- just giving cash away.