Recent content by Curly

I think perhaps you don't have the all-electric e-Golf, but rather an internal combustion model.

When you "start" the car and see the message "turn the wheel", does the "READY" light come on or not?

Yes, that's why I chose that word. I guess no one really has the answer, which is pretty much what I expected. As I said, I've seen that "higher profit margin for SUVs" repeated over and over for a decade without an explanation.

I'm not a subscriber to autonews, so I can't read that one. However, "greed" doesn't answer the question. I'm sure the auto companies and dealers have just as much greed for making high profits on ALL vehicles. Is it just because buyers of "cars" are willing to shop around and get a lower price...

As I was reading that article, I noticed time after time that it has some awkward phrasing and that it was not making sense, to where it seemed to be saying that the reason CUVs have higher profit margins is that they have higher profit margins, i.e. circular reasoning. I got to the end and...

I've read about this "higher profit margin" for SUVs over and over, but I can't understand it. Why wouldn't manufacturers have to compete with each other on price just as much for SUVs as for sedans? Is the idea that they are conspiring to keep SUV prices high? I can see that margins could be...

I'm showing my ignorance, but perhaps there's a third option. What if you just go to the car 15 minutes before departure and turn it on "in person", instead of remotely, while it's plugged in? Does this warm up the cabin? It tells you on the display that it won't "start" while plugged in, but I...

I did get my car repaired last month, with Tuffy installing the two splash shield panels. The pair of panels cost me $483 from my local dealer. I had damaged the center one when I drove over the hidden piece of concrete. When I was examining the car to figure out what was damaged, I discovered...

Thanks to your reply I was able to solve this. I went to O'Reilly Auto Parts today and found the Bosch Icon wipers that include the full set of adapters. For some crazy reason, Bosch has sold these wipers packaged two different ways. Even stranger, it seems that the first ones that I bought...

As I explained, the package that I bought has instructions for installation on three types of washer arms, and the instructions match the contents of the package. You made a reference to adapter #4. None of the instructions I got illustrate the use of an adapter, much less four of them. The...

Thanks, I think you've explained the problem—there was only a single adapter with both the 26OE and 18OE that I bought. It was already installed on the wiper. The package has instructional diagrams for three different styles of wiper-arm ends. For one style of end, you leave the installed...

The situation for the e-Golf is very different here in mid-Michigan than it is in Minneapolis or San Francisco. The e-Golf was not sold here by dealers, and mine is the only one I have ever seen on the road. In searching online for one to buy used, I never found one for sale within 100 miles of...

As I said already, it's the manufacturer's rule, not the dealer's choice. The implication from the service department in both of these cases was that the manufacturer does not allow them to work on these models. In both cases, the model involved was never offered for sale in Michigan by the...

Well, as I said, the story from the guy at Tuffy about the Chrysler dealer leads me to believe it's a common, possibly industry-standard, practice that constrains what factory-certified shops can do. He even used the same phrase as the VW dealer, that the Chrysler dealer was "not allowed to...

I'm on my way to having this resolved. I got the car up on a lift at a Tuffy repair shop near my home and we looked at the damage. It was not as bad as I had feared. There are four panels covering most of the bottom of the car. The two toward the front are a hard plastic, while the two toward...