Advice on Golf purchase

[badgerfax]

Good evening all, My wife has been offered a 2008 MK5? Golf GT TD sport 2 litre by her employer, Its a reps car & has pretty high mileage at 162K

I know nothing about Golfs, never owning one before.

The price being banded about was less than £2K which seems pretty cheap.

The only thing that has been mentioned is that the engine has gone into limp mode a couple of times recently but after restarting has been OK. I do have a pretty good mechanic I could call upon to check out the codes before we decide.

Any suggestions?

[Ian Hulley]

Watch out if it has the Siemens injectors

Ian

[Aidan]

And has it had the second cambelt change if not that'll set you back at least £700, that's a reason why you don't see many old cars now the cost of renewing the cambelt outweighs the value of the vehicle, vw dealer would charge over a grand to do it I believe

[Highroller]

The cam belt on my 2008 passat TDi was £355 from a VW dealership. Also the injector issue was on 2005 - 2007 TDi models and I believe there was a recall for the injector issue as well. At less then £2000 would it not be worthwhile getting an AA check?

[Ian Hulley]

The cam belt on my 2008 passat TDi was £355 from a VW dealership. Also the injector issue was on 2005 - 2007 TDi models and I believe there was a recall for the injector issue as well. At less then £2000 would it not be worthwhile getting an AA check?

With respect I've had this debate before ... a mate at work was quoted over a grand (actually £1200 sounds right) to do the cambelt on a GOLF .. the Passat is different being inline not transverse, mine was £300 including a pump, tensioners, belt etc but that's only taking the front bumper, crossbeam and radiator off

I'm not sure when the Siemens injectors were replaced as our 4 company Passats were 56 to 07 plates they were going down at 1 a month after about 80,000 miles and cost £1500 each injector job (including recovery, parts and main stealer labour)

Ian

[badgerfax]

AFAIK the car has full service history, the wife thinks its VW dealership service, will find out.

Did not realize a 2008 car is considered old already, what does that make the bus?

And yes I guess an AA check would be a pretty good idea.

[Ian Hulley]

Did not realize a 2008 car is considered old already, what does that make the bus?

Simple to work on

Ian

[ermie571]

96 plate golf - £70 timing belt change all in.....


Husband BANNED from anything later!!!!

[Highroller]

The cam belt on my 2008 passat TDi was £355 from a VW dealership. Also the injector issue was on 2005 - 2007 TDi models and I believe there was a recall for the injector issue as well. At less then £2000 would it not be worthwhile getting an AA check?

With respect I've had this debate before ... a mate at work was quoted over a grand (actually £1200 sounds right) to do the cambelt on a GOLF .. the Passat is different being inline not transverse, mine was £300 including a pump, tensioners, belt etc but that's only taking the front bumper, crossbeam and radiator off

I'm not sure when the Siemens injectors were replaced as our 4 company Passats were 56 to 07 plates they were going down at 1 a month after about 80,000 miles and cost £1500 each injector job (including recovery, parts and main stealer labour)

Ian

Ian,
The Passat is transverse. It is also based on the Golf. In your defence though, I had the car serviced as well at the same time and including VAT it did cost close to a grand . VW do periodically do special offers on servicing and cambelt changes. It's worthwhile keeping a lookout at their dealerships.

[Ian Hulley]

Ian,
The Passat is transverse. It is also based on the Golf.

Ahem, mine isn't. '96 B5 110bhp AFN engine.

[Highroller]

Ian,
The Passat is transverse. It is also based on the Golf.

Ahem, mine isn't. '96 B5 110bhp AFN engine.

Sorry Ian, crossed wires somewhere. I thought we were on about the B6 140bhp.

[infidel]

at that mileage I wouldn`t take it as a gift, and
reps motors have always been hammered to buggery.

ask yourself why the boss wants to flog it on.
or ask the boss.

[trucker]

Seems cheap at £2k, Most of the ones on Autotrader are double that at least
Personally I never worry about mileage, my last car had over 150,000 and is still going strong (Citreon ) my current TDI PD130 Passat has 207,000 miles on it and I'd happily drive it to the south of France tomorrow.
In fact the only unreliable motors I've had have been oldish but low milage ones.

[Madwitch]

Mk4 golf cambelt change £325 at our local independent skoda dealers!

[REGGAJ]

Bargain, even if its not had the cambelt done. Here's a few examples that went through my local auction in the last few weeks.

VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GT SPORT TDI 140 - 1968CC 5dr Hatchback Mar 2008 (08) None 105,402 5900.00
VOLKSWAGEN GOLF GT SPORT TDI 170 - 1968CC 3dr Hatchback Sep 2008 (58) Aug 2014 85,011 6175.00