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Offline rrocket

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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #40 on: March 09, 2011, 05:09:54 pm »
^^Yea...you could get 2010s for about $24K IIRC.  Crazy deal for the money!
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #41 on: March 09, 2011, 07:40:27 pm »
Quote from: DoubleClutch on March 09, 2011, 02:56:22 pm
Quote from: ktm525 on March 09, 2011, 02:33:29 pm

No more need for a wagon? What is the cash back?

When we got the Passat we only had one kid. Our second kid came February this year. So with two kids and aging parents we needed a mini-van ... so we got a 2011 Sienna in May.

There's $7,000 cashback on 2010s right now. I've been looking for a used fun car with a MT. My requirements were fun to drive and MT. My wife said ok, but it had to have 4 doors and leather seats. I almost had my wife convinced on an RX8 as used ones were only going for about $10,000. But she rejected it when we tried to fit two car seats in the back ... plus the trunk was pretty small. I also got pretty lucky with the TSX as I got the last MT TSX in Calgary (or so the salesman says ...).


That is a deal you can't refuse.
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #42 on: March 09, 2011, 07:59:10 pm »
The engine consumed quite a bit of oil about 2-3 litres between oil changes. Dealer didn't find any problems and said it was within normal specs.

WOW 2-3  how many litres does it need for a change?
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #43 on: March 09, 2011, 08:03:56 pm »
Quote from: airbalancer on March 09, 2011, 07:59:10 pm
The engine consumed quite a bit of oil about 2-3 litres between oil changes. Dealer didn't find any problems and said it was within normal specs.

WOW 2-3  how many litres does it need for a change?

Are we talking about an RX-8 here?   :rofl2:
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #44 on: March 09, 2011, 08:31:48 pm »
Congrats on the new TSX. AWESOME deal.  :o
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #45 on: March 09, 2011, 09:15:05 pm »
Congrats on the new TSX.  Good deal. 

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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #46 on: March 09, 2011, 09:54:51 pm »
I thought he bought a Sienna?
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #47 on: March 09, 2011, 11:19:42 pm »
Quote from: airbalancer on March 09, 2011, 07:59:10 pm
The engine consumed quite a bit of oil about 2-3 litres between oil changes. Dealer didn't find any problems and said it was within normal specs.

WOW 2-3  how many litres does it need for a change?

About 5 litres. Seems like alot of oil was being burned.
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #48 on: March 10, 2011, 10:54:26 am »
I wonder what the oil change interval was. Over 16k kms 2-3L would almost be acceptable. Almost.
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #49 on: March 10, 2011, 12:14:29 pm »
I did oil changes every 8,000 km.
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #50 on: March 10, 2011, 12:19:13 pm »
Quote from: DoubleClutch on March 10, 2011, 12:14:29 pm
I did oil changes every 8,000 km.

2-3L is crazt. My chipped 1.8T in the 03 Passatwagon would maybe burn 1L in a 8k km interval and that was running it hard.

I had an old engine guy tell me that a lot of oil consumption issues were due to the engine never being properly broken in. The engine was never run WOT enough (not high RPM) and this caused the rings to not seat properly. FWIW I tend to break in engines "aggressively" and have never had one consume excessive oil. (outside of a clapped out old datsun with 250k kms. ;D)
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #51 on: March 10, 2011, 12:26:33 pm »
Quote from: mmret on March 09, 2011, 09:54:51 pm
I thought he bought a Sienna?

We did. And technically the sienna was the passat replacment. But my wife was on mat leave at the time and we still need a second car. The tsx now is my car and sienna is the family car.
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #52 on: March 11, 2011, 09:45:15 am »
Congrats on going with a wagon over the typical SUV choices out there. Looks great!
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #53 on: March 11, 2011, 11:45:08 am »
Quote from: Bullet Blue on March 11, 2011, 09:45:15 am
Congrats on going with a wagon over the typical SUV choices out there. Looks great!

 ???

He replaced the wagon...
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #54 on: March 11, 2011, 12:19:00 pm »
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #55 on: March 11, 2011, 02:33:19 pm »
Quote from: ktm525 on March 09, 2011, 07:40:27 pm
Quote from: DoubleClutch on March 09, 2011, 02:56:22 pm
Quote from: ktm525 on March 09, 2011, 02:33:29 pm

No more need for a wagon? What is the cash back?

When we got the Passat we only had one kid. Our second kid came February this year. So with two kids and aging parents we needed a mini-van ... so we got a 2011 Sienna in May.

There's $7,000 cashback on 2010s right now. I've been looking for a used fun car with a MT. My requirements were fun to drive and MT. My wife said ok, but it had to have 4 doors and leather seats. I almost had my wife convinced on an RX8 as used ones were only going for about $10,000. But she rejected it when we tried to fit two car seats in the back ... plus the trunk was pretty small. I also got pretty lucky with the TSX as I got the last MT TSX in Calgary (or so the salesman says ...).
That is a deal you can't refuse.
Agreed, that's a killer deal on the TSX and from what I read it's a heck of a nice ride...especially with the MT. Congratulations.
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Re: Our new Passat Wagon
« Reply #56 on: March 11, 2011, 03:38:12 pm »
Since technically this still is a Passat post I was travelling on the 401 this afternoon beside one as it headed out to Pickering/Ajax HO - it turned off on Brock so methinks it was heading there.

It is a big car - a lot bigger than I thought and as I was moving along with it, it reminded me of an older Camry from about 10 years ago or that Mazda sedan that was also out about that time as well - all rounded soft corners.
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