Well I finally have my car back.
In the end, the only repairs I paid for were what was caused by the mouse.
As for the rental, 12 days cost me quite a bit – but VW is paying for the full rental minus the added insurance (which saved my butt because yesterday while driving back from Albany, a rock the size of a softball bounced out of the dump truck ahead of me and clobbered the roof).
So all in all I’m out a few hundred bucks, and my faith in the local dealership has been restored, by a combination of the owner’s personal attention and the followup which covered a majority of my costs over the past 2 weeks.
