Re: selling a 99 A3

["JoseGomez" <kwerky@email.msn.com>]

Not to be picky or technical  nor to depress you :) but the 0.30/mile figure
also includes gas and insurance in  addition to the depreciation, so you
have to include  those costs into your total car expense or alternatively
reduce the per mile factor to account for that. But your point is well taken
even so you've gotten your money's worth out of your car since I do believe
that the per mile factor of .30  is actually low for our cars.

BTW, am I extraordinarily lucky or might there  be something wrong that my
Check Engine light has NEVER come on in the 4 years I have had my 95 OBD I
GLX. (it does light up on start up so there's no problem with the bulb)  I
read something about aftermarket radios intefering with the ECU readout.
Might htis be the cause? I have never had the dealer complain about not
being able to read the fault codes although I did have problems clearing an
overrev code using the shorting procedure outlined in the Bentley Manual.
The MIL would not light up as advertised to indicate any code.


Ideas anyone?
Thanks


Jose


-----Original Message-----
From: Squier, Craig <craig_squier@arvin.com>
To: 'jettaglx@igtc.com' <jettaglx@igtc.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: selling a 99 A3


>You always lose a monkey load in the first year, but then the "upside down"
>point goes away after about 18-24 months, where the resale value is higher
>then the loan principal.
>
>But my 95 with 80kmi is still worth $11k-12k when I paid $20,500 for it in
>Early 1995. If you figure $0.30 per mile then I have surely gotten my
dollar
>back out the car....
>
>Just because you have 19k left on the loan don't mean its worth 19k....