According to the most recent data from national transportation research nonprofit TRIP, 29 percent of Morgantown’s major roads are in poor condition, the highest percentage of any urban area in West Virginia by a significant margin. For context, the next closest city sits at 18 percent. In total, 51 percent of roads in the Morgantown…
If you drive a VW Jetta, Golf GTI, Tiguan, or Atlas in Morgantown, your engine is accumulating carbon deposits on its intake valves right now. Not because something is wrong with the engine, and not because of anything you’re doing incorrectly. It’s a physical consequence of direct injection technology that affects every TSI engine ever…
Last month, a 2021 VW Jetta came in after the owner hit a particularly bad pothole on Beechurst Avenue near the WVU coliseum. He had noticed uneven tire wear developing over the following weeks but kept putting off an inspection. By the time he came in, the front left tire had worn unevenly across the…
Last month, a 2022 VW ID.4 Pro came into our service bay with a battery that had degraded far faster than expected for its mileage. The owner had been charging to 100% every night and letting it sit depleted after long drives through the Mon National Forest. After just 28,000 miles, the pack was showing…
Last spring, a VW Jetta came into our service bay pulling hard to the right. The owner had noticed it for a few weeks but figured it wasn’t serious enough to deal with. After putting it on the alignment rack, we found the front camber was so far out of spec that both front tires…
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…
