Hi all,
New to the forum and after some expert advice. My lancer was written off the Sydney storms recently and I'm on the hunt for a replacement family car. Interestingly, an opportunity to get one of these has popped up to pick up on of these for (what i consider) pretty cheap:
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It's got 150k on it and seems to have been serviced every 6 months to a year at a VW specialist. I actually gave the workshop a call to see if they had noted anything down last time it was in late last year and they had nothing of note, which is a good sign I guess, although I'm considering taking it to them for inspection and then service/purchase if the check up doesn't show any issues.
Ticks all my requirements to fit all 3 of my young kids in, a safe car that will get me the kids dropped off at school and myself to a train station to get to work. All in all, It'll probably be driving well under 100k a week.
The guy is selling it as he was offered 3k at trade in when he upgraded his car a month or so ago, but can't be bothered selling it privately now so he's offered it to me for the same. Budget wise, its well under what I was looking to spend, even taking into account its due for a service plus fixing any minor things the inspection picks up.
My concern with this is the horror stories I've been looking though on these forums about these DSG's dying. I've test driven it and there were no weird noises, shuddering, temp or oil issues, but I'm in no way shape of form a mechanic, so I'm in no way saying its fine, but is there anything else I should look out for thats a warning sign? How likely is this inspection to turn up potential DSG issues? or is it a case of the car's got 150k on it, so it's just a roll of the dice?
Thanks for your time in advance. I'm actually pretty excited about this car, but I'm not going to let my emotions override logic - which is why im here
New to the forum and after some expert advice. My lancer was written off the Sydney storms recently and I'm on the hunt for a replacement family car. Interestingly, an opportunity to get one of these has popped up to pick up on of these for (what i consider) pretty cheap:
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It's got 150k on it and seems to have been serviced every 6 months to a year at a VW specialist. I actually gave the workshop a call to see if they had noted anything down last time it was in late last year and they had nothing of note, which is a good sign I guess, although I'm considering taking it to them for inspection and then service/purchase if the check up doesn't show any issues.
Ticks all my requirements to fit all 3 of my young kids in, a safe car that will get me the kids dropped off at school and myself to a train station to get to work. All in all, It'll probably be driving well under 100k a week.
The guy is selling it as he was offered 3k at trade in when he upgraded his car a month or so ago, but can't be bothered selling it privately now so he's offered it to me for the same. Budget wise, its well under what I was looking to spend, even taking into account its due for a service plus fixing any minor things the inspection picks up.
My concern with this is the horror stories I've been looking though on these forums about these DSG's dying. I've test driven it and there were no weird noises, shuddering, temp or oil issues, but I'm in no way shape of form a mechanic, so I'm in no way saying its fine, but is there anything else I should look out for thats a warning sign? How likely is this inspection to turn up potential DSG issues? or is it a case of the car's got 150k on it, so it's just a roll of the dice?
Thanks for your time in advance. I'm actually pretty excited about this car, but I'm not going to let my emotions override logic - which is why im here

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