All,There has been tons of arguing over if stripped vehicles are being bought back. Here is my experience:I turned in my rattiest car today (I have 7 to turn in, all bought post 6/28); a 2010 Golf with 257,646 miles on it. I turned it in today on 4 spare tires, missing a mirror, and with the passenger seat taken out. This was my first buyback experience.The rep at the local VW dealer was nice, and very timely. He mentioned that he had to call a supervisor about the car being stripped. I mentioned that I was well-versed in the settlement, and that the car qualifies and is eligible based on the "operable" definition provided in the final class action documents. He said he needed to talk to management about taking a "stripped car", and tried several times. We were chatting about all of this, and I played dumb and asked if people were stripping their turn-ins. He showed me an email on his tablet with the original picture from reddit (of a golf with no headlights or bumper). He said they were advised a week and a half ago to call on any stripped car before accepting it.He finally connected with whoever he was calling, and came back into the office and said they would not take the car unless the seat was back in it. I pressed back that this could be construed as a violation of the settlement, but he didn't seem to care. I wasn't about to take a stand beyond that, so I went and put the seat back in (I brought it along in my support vehicle for this very situation). After that everything proceeded as normal.So apparently there is a line you can cross in terms of stripping the turn ins.Here are some pics of the car for reference. It was absolutely beaten into the ground, and I won't get to make a new office chair out of the passenger seat, but it still made me a pretty penny!