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I have nearly hit 3000 miles on my 2015 VW GTI and i wanted to make certain that i was giving an honest review of my expereince not just inside of the dealershio but also in my new (to me) car.
Inside the dealership, I was greeted warmly by Casey and was shown around a very clean car that was priced quite fair for the age, and history of the car. I had called ahead to make sure the car was available to test drive and it was waiting for us to go out and test drive before i got there (they only had 10 minutes from the time i had called) we went on a test drive and though I may have pushed the car a bit on the drive, Casey was a trooper and hung in there with me. I was able to get about 6% off the list price of the car due to me paying cash and also an issue with the rear hatch being misaligned. Everything was completely fair and very quick. I had my husband check over the car and they had no issues with us entering the lot after hours to check on it. The next day I confirmed that I'd be coming to pick up the car and even though I came while another customer was there with Casey we were both handled in a timely fashion and were both attended to by the entire VW Dreyer and Reinbold staff. They made buying a car such a smooth and painless process. I signed my dealership papers at the BMW dealership and within an hour, I was out the door with both keys to my car. 10/10 dealership expereince and thank you so much to Casey for being a fantastic salesman. I will definitely be back to buy another one in a couple years!
Now for the review of the car-
The car was very clean and after a more thorough inspection it became more clear that the Dreyer and Reinbold team made a quite dirty car, nearly immaculate to be sold. Kudos to them on that. They also put 4 new tires and 1 new wheel on the car before it was sold, which I don't think I've experienced before in the past. I was given the Carfax report which showed everything they did to it before it was out up for sale and I haven't given a full check over everything on that list but so far I haven't had any major issues that would lead me to believe their technician didnt do the work reported.
There were two very small issues that I have fixed since having the car and we'll get into those now-
First, on day one after getting home I took it for a drive with my husband. As any young woman who just bought her very first "fast" car does, I drove it like a fast car to show off how good I did to my husband. The turbo built and then we heard and pop and the ECS light came on the dash. We tried to read it with our scanner, but unfortunately my car speaks German and the scanner only speaks English, so we couldn't see what exactly this code was for... so a new one that speaks VW German was purchased but ended up not being needed when we found the blow off tube after the turbo had simply not been tightened down fully and... well...blew off when the turbo went into boost so quickly. We seated back in, and badaboom badabing... we are back in business!
Issues #2- for whatever reason after driving the car consistently up at operating temperature, and then shutting it off- say to go to the grocery store- would result in the car not wanting to start. I'd turn the key over and it would sit there and crank, but it would take a couple of tries to actually get it to come up. This happened a handful or so of times, but I last week it stopped doing it. Now, the car came to me with a full tank of gas (which was absolutely killer btw!) But I do believe after it disappeared rather miraculously, I have determined that perhaps whoever owned it last had been using regular 87, instead of the recommended 93 octane fuel. After a couple fill ups, it hasn't had any issues.
Now, 1 vacation to South Carolina and back, she sits out front still pretty as can be drive like a dream, the whole trip!
