Dunno. It's probably worthless as a general principle.
It's a 2004 Jetta TDI. Too old to be part of the "dieselgate" stuff, but the value was killed anyway.
I don't understand the details of "totaling" and so forth. Virginia would have required that I get a "salvage title" once it had been ruled a total loss if it were less than 10 years old at the time, but wasn't, so I didn't. Everyone probably assumes that normal cars over 10 years old are near-junk anyway.
I plan to give it away to the local NPR station or a local charity if/when I decide it's too old for a new clutch, or am willing to pull the trigger and go electric, or whatever. They'll auction it off or send it to the crusher and I'll get a note in the mail telling me what they were able to get for it, and I'll use that for a federal income tax deduction. (J got over a value of $900 for her 1993 Corolla that had 203,000 miles on it at the time. We were astounded.)
Cheers,
Scott.
I don't understand the details of "totaling" and so forth. Virginia would have required that I get a "salvage title" once it had been ruled a total loss if it were less than 10 years old at the time, but wasn't, so I didn't. Everyone probably assumes that normal cars over 10 years old are near-junk anyway.
I plan to give it away to the local NPR station or a local charity if/when I decide it's too old for a new clutch, or am willing to pull the trigger and go electric, or whatever. They'll auction it off or send it to the crusher and I'll get a note in the mail telling me what they were able to get for it, and I'll use that for a federal income tax deduction. (J got over a value of $900 for her 1993 Corolla that had 203,000 miles on it at the time. We were astounded.)
Cheers,
Scott.