Wow.. Thank you for all of the info there, that's basically everything I wanted to know. The car was bought with 53,000 miles on it by a retired woman who drove it daily for 4 years. The turbo was done under warranty for some reason but I have access to the whole maintenance history of the car, my friend is the service manager at the dealer where the car was serviced.
The diesel scene is huge up here. All gas stations have diesel pumps and probably 40-50% of VW's in my area are TDI's. The MK2 and MK3 turbo diesels were also very popular up here so a lot of the MK2's that are left have swapped TD's in them. So there's lots of fresh diesel and lots of competent diesel mechanics in my area.
The timing belt is one thing I was wondering about. The dealer did the timing belt during VW "Certification" in 2005 since it had 86,000km on it (53k miles) and was getting close to its 96,000km (59k miles) t-belt service. This was done at the dealer with OEM parts (confirmed with my friend).
It now has 160,000kms (99k miles) on it and two dealerships and two independent VW shops have told me not to bother until 186,000kms (115k miles). Everyone up here seems to be pushing 100,000km / 60,000mile belt intervals. What's your take on it?
|