2012 Hybrid with 40k and he wanted $32,000.
The 10K battery scares the hell out of me. Do VW extended warranties cover the Hybrid battery? I know they are warrantied for 8 years.
Can a back up camera be added to the Navi screen since it was a factory delete for this model year?
How much have people spent upgrading the stereo amp and speakers? Are you better off just replacing the entire system?
Chipping seems to add significant gains in horsepower. Does it increase MPG?
You should be able to find something for under 30k.... just have to wait for it to hit the market, hybrids are HARD TO FIND.
The battery is not a concern, long term studies on li-ion car batteries have been promising. its the electric clutch/motor and wiring you need to watch for. and 3rd parties can refurb batteries for cheaper. theres a genuine hybrid battery on ebay motors right now for $6500obo - its been there for atleast a year.
there is NO chip for the hybrid and currently no US tuners. you'd need to do something 1-off custom at this point. and I would expect some improvement in MPG.. not enough to outweigh the cost of the tune however.
your best bet on stereo upgrading with the non-dyna audio is to upgrade from the factory amp and get a digital sound processor to liven the current speakers up on the factory HU. it'll run you around 1k. brands like Helix, Audison have integrated AMPS with DSP that run up to 8 channels so even your tweeters would be run on their own channel from the mid woofers to get better cutoff and control from the whole system.
It seems that there are only a handful of us here but hopefully our numbers will grow with time. It would be great if we can post our problems and experience (hopefully good ones) in one thread instead of many different threads scattered all over the place. Please feel free to log anything hybrid related.
