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My personal resource for maintaining the car was here
http://forums.tdiclub.com/
They provided everything I needed to get anything fixed.
That's a great site for TDi owners. Wife drives a 2011 Jetta TDi, one of the cars impacted by the emissions scandal. I work on my own cars, and ours is just this year out of warranty, but there is no Chilton's/Hayes/Bentley manual for any VW's after 2010, so for this car I have to depend on the Internet for maintenance procedures and tips.
So far all I've had to do on ours is the oil and the battery, both easy. The thing that surprised me somewhat was the need for special oil and an uncommon filter when doing the oil change. Both took me a while to track down, unavailable at the local Autozone, but no big deal (Amazon.com). I can tell I'll learn a lot working on this car, but I'm not worried about getting stumped with that TDi forum site available whenever I need it.
The car itself seems to have a great build quality, tons of torque for a 2.0 liter, and gets over 40mpg on the highway. These traits, with the "clean emissions," seemed almost to good to be true when we bought the thing, and now we know it wasn't true at all.
Oh well. Despite owning one of the affected cars, I don't really care about the emissions scandal. I live in a no-inspection state, so I intend to just keep the car away from the dealer and not let them do the inevitable ECU flash that will cripple the performance and shorten the motor's life. And I buy cars to drive until they die, so I don't care about resale value. (If I still lived in California, I'd be very upset though--they won't let you register the car if you haven't had the emissions "corrected.")
If I get a compensation check as the result of some class action suit, sure, I'll cash it. Otherwise, I'll try to not feel guilty about spewing a little extra NOx into the air while wifey drives around a safe, solidly-built car getting great mileage with a diesel motor that should last a good long time. No problem.