The drive from Morgantown into the Laurel Highlands starts pleasantly enough on US-48 east toward Kingwood, but once the road begins dropping into the deeper terrain past Terra Alta and toward Bruceton Mills, the nature of the drive changes in a way that your brake system notices even when you don’t. Summer is when most…
Morgantown’s streets have a reputation that precedes them, and if you’ve navigated the stretch of Beechurst Avenue after a hard winter or tried to keep a straight line down Don Knotts Boulevard near downtown, you already know what your VW’s suspension is quietly absorbing every single day. Anyone who drives in Morgantown long enough stops…
Last March, a 2021 Volkswagen Tiguan came into our service bay after its owner hit a particularly aggressive pothole on University Avenue near the WVU Coliseum during the evening commute. The impact felt significant but the car seemed to drive normally afterward, so she waited six weeks before bringing it in. By that point the…
A Volkswagen Passat owner came into our service bay last July after experiencing a soft, spongy brake pedal during his commute on US-119 southbound toward Grafton. The pedal had felt progressively less firm over several weeks of summer driving but he had attributed the change to the heat rather than investigating it. When our technician…
A Volkswagen Atlas owner came into our service bay the Monday after a WVU home game weekend after his vehicle had overheated in the stop-and-go traffic on Monongalia Avenue approaching the stadium parking areas. He had been idling in game day traffic for nearly two hours with the air conditioning running at full capacity and…
A Volkswagen Golf owner came into our service bay on a Tuesday morning after her oil life monitor had dropped below 10 percent during her WVU campus commute and she had been unable to find a service appointment window that fit her teaching schedule for the preceding three weeks. She had been monitoring the monitor…
A Volkswagen Tiguan owner called our service department last month after realizing her oil change was three months overdue. She worked full-time at WVU Medicine’s administrative offices on Medical Center Drive and managed two children’s school schedules, and every time she had mentally scheduled a service visit something more urgent had displaced it. She used…
A Volkswagen Golf owner came into our service bay last October after his battery died in the WVU Evansdale campus parking lot on a Monday morning before a midterm exam. He had noticed the engine cranking slightly slower than normal for two weeks but had attributed it to the cold weather and deferred the concern…
A Volkswagen Passat owner came into our service bay last month after his temperature gauge had been running higher than normal on his daily commute on I-79 between Morgantown and Fairmont. He had topped off his coolant reservoir six months earlier with a universal pink coolant from an auto parts store on University Avenue, assuming…
A Volkswagen Jetta owner came into our service bay last month after hitting a particularly aggressive pothole on Beechurst Avenue near the WVU campus during the height of Morgantown’s spring road deterioration season. She had felt a significant impact but the car seemed to drive normally afterward, so she continued her commute on US-19 without…
