Evening All, I'm new to the vans forum so please forgive any obvious stupidity...
I am looking to move from VW's smallest car, Candy White 5-dr up!, to a 7-seater, ideally a Multivan. Looking online at the various car sales sites I see that there are only a few for sale at any one time, especially 4Motion, which I'd really quite like. I'm not in any desperate hurry (the up! is our second car) but am ready to buy when I see something I like.
I'm across all the issues and arguments re. T5 v. T5GP; DSG woes; petrol v. Diesel; owning outside warrranty; 4Motion v. Front Wheel Drive; yadda yadda yadda... I have my own opinions on all that stuff and I won't bore you and am not really looking to cover the same old ground - you might guess my views given I have a Diesel manual Skoda Scout tho'
Anyhoo, there's an oddball 2008 Multivan T5 Highline 4-Motion for sale on the Gold Coast. After some sleuthing I can confirm it has been used as an airport "limo" although its low mileage (49k) seems not to add up in that sense, unless it was never driven to Brissie.
My question is: should I be considering an ex-commercially used vehicle? Seem to be pro's and con's both ways (let's assume it hasn't been crashed/had the odometer wound back/driven underwater to South Stradebroke Island or anything too weird). Any advice or cautionary tales would be very gratefully welcomed.
tl/dr/ would you buy this van?n
I am looking to move from VW's smallest car, Candy White 5-dr up!, to a 7-seater, ideally a Multivan. Looking online at the various car sales sites I see that there are only a few for sale at any one time, especially 4Motion, which I'd really quite like. I'm not in any desperate hurry (the up! is our second car) but am ready to buy when I see something I like.
I'm across all the issues and arguments re. T5 v. T5GP; DSG woes; petrol v. Diesel; owning outside warrranty; 4Motion v. Front Wheel Drive; yadda yadda yadda... I have my own opinions on all that stuff and I won't bore you and am not really looking to cover the same old ground - you might guess my views given I have a Diesel manual Skoda Scout tho'

Anyhoo, there's an oddball 2008 Multivan T5 Highline 4-Motion for sale on the Gold Coast. After some sleuthing I can confirm it has been used as an airport "limo" although its low mileage (49k) seems not to add up in that sense, unless it was never driven to Brissie.
My question is: should I be considering an ex-commercially used vehicle? Seem to be pro's and con's both ways (let's assume it hasn't been crashed/had the odometer wound back/driven underwater to South Stradebroke Island or anything too weird). Any advice or cautionary tales would be very gratefully welcomed.
tl/dr/ would you buy this van?n

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