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| The Passat wagon ("tooey's cah") is dead. It needs between $900 and $3000 of work, and the dealer can't tell us how much until they go in and take a look. Time for a new car. We've had the Passat since 1995, and it's been an OK car. It is great to drive - good power and it handles beautifully. On the downside it hasn't really been reliable. | ||||||||
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| 2002-05-08 - picked up a shiny new Saturn LW300 at the dealer today. Call me cranky but I really dislike the "new car smell". Otherwise, though, it's a fine car, and I hope that we'll have it for a while. Now to figure out what to do with the Passat... | ||||||||
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| > > | Ended up donating the Passat to some charity called "helping hands" which turned out to be a for-profit company which sells the cars and gives some unspecified percent of the money to charity. In the mean time I've seen a few others, for example Franciscan Children's Hospital (800-568-8688) and Special Olympics who have a place on Rt 109 in Millis where you can drop the cars off. | |||||||