have you had any problems with it? How do you like it now?

Looks like harsh weather. if it is windy enough, you will have a shaky wheel. especially if the car is light.

What you neglected to tell people about those $90 dollar oil changes is that they last 10,000 miles. A regular car paying $40 an oil change every 3,000 miles will spend more than $90 dollars during that same time. So with the Volkswagen, you're getting better value for the dollar. 5 quarts of Amsoil and a MANN filter costs me $62 dollars delivered. To spend only $62 bucks to go 10,000 miles on an oil change is SUPER CHEAP! I signed up as a preferred customer so I can get their magazines and other products for my wife's car. A friend of mine who owns a lawn business told me about it. In one of the emails I got from a dealer, I look up what I need and order from filters.greatmotoroil.com

GMoney see this is where it all falls apart. by the time i hit 4 k i have to top it off. by 6k top it off again. i get the point youre making but 10K on oil without topping it off which makes it even more expensive at 10$ a quart is ....just an illusion...at least in the case of my particular passat. the car was babied. no i dont floor or race it...so there is no reason to think well i tore the engine and now it burns oil.

vasile trusca I had a 2012 Passat. I went to 10,000 miles without ever having to add any oil, ever. It was always full. If you use dealer oil or oil in the store, they sell you crap. This is why I only use Amsoil. You don't save any money with an auto parts store. Auto parts stores only sell crap with high profit margins. They don't care about saving you money or having your car run better. This is why you had the problems you did. Stop doing dealer recommended stuff. That's how they make money! The only thing you can't control is doing the transmission fluid changes every 40,000 miles. Amsoil does not make a compatible fluid for VW tranny's, so you are screwed there and at their mercy,

GMoney by 2012 they had a chance to work out the problems out of them. i have the first generation. but for the sake of entertaining the idea....can you be more speciffic as to what oil and filter you use? i need to do one this week. do you buy it online?

+GMoney No car has 3000 mile changes. It's 7500 per the manual. Or 10,000 miles in post-2010 cars, so there are no oil change savings there .

Yes, it's no "green car", it's blue®©™ ;) ;)