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I have a friend at work selling his mothers car. She is an old lady and has taken to using a clutch up in a few months. The vehicle now has a new clutch and she is buying an auto.
Its done 50k miles. It has the bumps of an elderly lady parking it, and a ful service history.
Does anyone have any experience of this engine or vehicle?
If its the same as the fabia 1.6 I bought on my mum the dpf thingy whatsit gave up a few months after I got it..few hundred to fix but been fine since with more longer trips. Bit gutless due to gearing
Sounds like she won't have done the distance to keep the dpf clean. Take it for a test drive and try and put your foot down on a long drive.
As above companies do offer dpf cleaning.
Have you put the reg into auto trader to get a value? Or sent her to webuyanycar to get a price before you pay over that odds?
Its her son selling it for her. He says he will accept £2k, which seems good value to me. I am viewing in the next couple of days, so will input the reg into webuyanycar to determine its max value.
Webuyanycar is not an accurate guide to a car's value as they offer rock bottom price. You will get more for a car by selling it in virtually any other way, that's how they make their money. If I was selling and someone quoted me the wbac price I'd tell them to look elsewhere.
If you want to know the true value use the valuation report at what car or equivalent. Another option would be to pick up a Glasses or Parkers price guide at the newsagent.
The price is good. I've just been shopping round for a 1.6 diesel for my son, and from a trader expected to pay 3500 plus. I ended up getting him a 10 plate focus 1.6 tdci for that budget. Golfs are like hen's teeth to find in good nick.
That seems very good vfm to me. We've got a few of them as pool cars at work. I think the estates are basically Mk5s with MK6 front and rear ends. I've got a mk6 hatch and the biggest difference I noticed was the position of the door armrest/electric window switches. They're not exactly quick but then which 1.6 diesel is? Pool cars get abused but the Golfs feel much better than the Foci and truly dreadful 308 estates that are also in the fleet. The Golfs also get booked up first too so get more use.
I had one as a company car, and it had the clutch replaced before it went back after 3yrs.
Hateful thing imho, underpowered for the size of the vehicle and the whole stop/start thing only worked when it wanted too.
Was glad to see it go if I’m honest..
For £2k I'm not sure you can go that far wrong. I have the 2013 version which is the newer model, had 60k of trouble free driving out of it. It's a lovely ride. The 1.6 is plenty of power in mine.
The 1.6 diesel engine isn't one VW's best.
Well known for eating injectors, and like most modern diesels, expect egr and dpf problems.
However, £2k is a steal for a low mileage Golf, so you'll be a few quid up to pay for repairs.
Bare in mind the current backlash against diesels will affect resale values, and several cities are talking about banning diesels.
Having said that, a Golf is a nice place to be, and when running well you might well see 50mpg.
Imho that engine is underpowered for an estate (owner for 4 years in an estate and 3 in normal golf). The 150bhp 2.0l TDI engine in the Mk7 we have now is much, much better.
Friend of mine is selling his 2006 1.6tdi with 135k on it and in nice condition for £2.5 fwiw. Obviously not sure if its the same engine. He says the prior one he had did 240k before it was written off after someone pulled out in front of him. Anyway makes the car in the OP look “cheap”
I'd be a little wary of the DPF life on a car used like that. I would suspect 50k of start stop driving will have impacted it's life span. Having said that if you're predominantly going to be ploughing the motorway network you might get some balance back.
Also has the dual mass flywheel been done as well as the clutch? If not that's a bill in the wings.
I've driven the 1.6tdi as a hatch (rental car) and for daily driving without being loaded to the roof I thought it was adequate.
I had a new mk5 1.9tdi 105hp hatch back in 2005. I did 35000 miles in it the first year I had it and 105hp was enough. It wasn't exciting or quick but it was enough if you were good at planning ahead and maintaining speed.
The start stop working intermittently might be a sign the car is doing forced regens on the DPF.
For £2k with a new clutch and good history you prob can’t go wrong.
We’vw got a 2011 golf estate. It’s the sport line 2.0 TDi with the 140 bhp engin3 and it’s great. Nice car to sit in and ours goes well but obvs with bigger engine. Noth8ng needing doing in last 50k miles. Did need new handbrake cable when we bought it but the garag3 did that. It may have been sat around a bit I guess.
if it’s tidy I bet you could run it for a yea4 at that price and sell for more than you paid for it as long as it’s a good colour and tidy.
Ok, as an update, i viewed the car today.
It has belonged to an old lady (80s), who still sails her sailing boat to Greenland every year!!
It has aircon, steel wheels, and parking sensors. It has done 41k miles. It has a ding on both front wings, and witness marks on the garage door reveal.
The orange engine management light is on. A peruse of the owners manual shows its the DPF that is causing the problems. Driving it for a lengthy time in this state seems like unicorns and baby robins will die, as well as the injectors and the turbo. However i dont know this.
It drove really well and everything seemed fine and as though the orange engine light wasnt illuminated.
So, its a 2010 car, 41k miles, new clutch, fsh, but that pesky orange light, and some bruises....
What would you all do?
Get them to take it to a volkswagon garage and fix it?
plug in a code reader and find out what the light on for - the 20 quid ebay ones give a code that can usually be deciphered with a bit of googling
Ageist mode on/
Also, probably been driven around in 1st gear mostly.
/ageist mode off
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For £2k I’m not sure you can go that far wrong. I have the 2013 version which is the newer model, had 60k of trouble free driving out of it. It’s a lovely ride. The 1.6 is plenty of power in mine.
You can quite easily if it needs injectors, DPF, DMF, etc. Quite possible if it's done a lot of short journeys, been driven in the wrong gear etc.
As TwiceWithChips says, I would firstly check it with a code reader and steer well clear if googling the result doesn't show a cheap fix.
The orange engine management light is on. A peruse of the owners manual shows its the DPF that is causing the problems
Make it a condition of the sale it being taken to a garage (ideally VAG or specialist) and run through a forced regen cycle so the DPF light goes out..... unless the light is the reason it's cheap?
AFAIK, DPFs fill with soot and then during a long run this is burnt off to a much smaller amount of ash. Eventually the DPF will fill with ash and at that point it will need to be replaced (or some companies appear to offer cleaning). DPFs can fail if used on short journeys all the time, but in this case I think it's because they completely fill with soot and then can't go through the cycle to burn it off to ash.
How will you use the car? This is important as what constitutes a short journey in terms of DPF being cleaned or not cleaned isn't too clear. I had an older Seat (2007) with a DPF and this suffered DPF issues, even though my commute was 15 miles with mainly motorway and A roads. Unless you're going to mostly use it on longer motorway journeys, I'd avoid and look for a petrol
As above with the dpf, but they also run an active dpf regen when needed if the long runs aren't happening. Not letting the active regen complete is what is likely causing the problems. Eg on mine the active regen occurs every 200ish miles if I have been doing lots of short runs. The regen takes 15mins, so I make sure I drive around for those 15mins to get it done. You can stop halfway through and it will continue again on start up, but there's a limit to how many times you can do this. For the OP's potential car, it would be very easy with a lot of short runs to have incomplete regens.