I am from Boston and purchased a 2015 VW Golf TSI on March 4, 2020. While discussing pricing and financing I was asked how my credit was and I told my salesperson, Dallas, the truth, it is excellent, but, I had recently (in January 2020) been the victim of identity theft and as such, there's been many, many inquiries on my report from the thief, I've been (and still am) trying to get taken off, etc,etc. He talked to the finance manager about it and said they won't run the credit check; which was fine, so I said I would pay by cashier's check in full. Brought back check in about 45 minutes, car sold and all is good. Until I just saw my credit report and see they did in fact run the inquiry which now gave me my 11th inquiry in 3 months which I just told him I was trying to resolve! Thanks!
So, 2 days later I picked up the vehicle, got it inspected and get on the highway. Driving up Route 24 to Boston I notice "EPC" on the dashboard light up. I had no idea what it meant and since I'm in a car I just picked up figured it was probably something with traction or some button I hit and the car appeared to be running fine, so didn't even think about it really. When I got home, which was about 55 mile drive in total, all highway, I noticed it took nearly a half a tank of gas and I found that to be really odd, so I refilled the gas again and then the "EPC" light actually went off.
There was a factory recall on the vehicle and I made an appointment to have the Volkswagen dealership take care of it and on my drive, luckily, to the appointment, the EPC warning light came on again which means "Electronic Power Control" and an EPC warning light in a VW indicates a problem in the powertrain control system. This can be one of 17 faults, including lack of messaging between the powertrain and many systems, such as the fuel injector or air conditioning unit. It can also indicate performance control problems, defects and malfunctions of the EPC. Bottom line is it can also be deadly if not followed up on.
The VW dealer fixed the recall issue and then told me the EPC light was due to what would've been a $2,000 repair job, but was covered, luckily, by some VW warranty. This repair involved, "replacing the entire turbo underboost system". Also, it needs a "piston control oil cooling valve" replacement which was estimated at another $400.00 (not under their warranty) but told me I should have no problem in having it fixed where I bought the car from since it's still under warranty.
But the part which really makes me mad is when I went back online and looked for pictures of the car (most were already taken offline since car was sold), however, I stumbled upon a video of the car and what do you know? The EPC warning light happened to be on in the video!! So, they certainly knew about this before the car was sold and didn't even mention to me at all! Totally shady!! And, the oil and filter which Prestige told me had been done - was NOT done and VW dealership changed oil and filter for me as a courtesy. Unbelievable - and now I can't even get a call back from these people! Highly do NOT recommend this place for purchasing your used vehicle - deceptive and do not even return calls after the sale!
Well, I understand there's a public health emergency and the dealer has been closed since the day I had this done at the VW dealer, but the website indicates you may still contact them via email, phone, Facebook, etc. I've contacted the last two Mondays about this asking if Dallas would get back to me, or if he has an email even since I can't find his anywhere on their sites, and all I receive is an auto reply about someone will contact me. It's been 2 weeks! read more