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    Joined the forum today. I've recently bought a 2001 C5 Allroad 2.5TDI manual. I live in Wellington, New Zealand, but this car was imported from the UK in 2006.

    I'm really happy with it, as it meets my holy grail of criteria: wagon (or should I say estate?), 4WD (for skiing), diesel, manual, and NZ$6k.

    It's nearly done 150,000 miles, so is not without some wear and tear, but nothing too major. Biggest worry for me was the AKE engine cam wear issue - I don't believe this car has a problem, but I'll be changing the oil & filter regularly to try and keep it this way. Was the first thing I did after purchase, before driving ~600km from Auckland where I bought it, home to Wellington.

    Lots of relatively small things to fix, like a wheel sensor, non-functioning hazard switch, pixelated dash info screen, so I think I'll be spending a fair bit of time on the forums.

    We also have a 2004 Touran 2.0 FSI, so I might need to have a poke around for info about that from time to time as well.

    Thanks,

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    Welcome to the forum. The other issue with those cars is the air suspension but the C5 forum is full of guys who have changed the bags themselves and there is bagpipingandy who is on the forum and a bit of an expert!
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    Thanks Scott,

    Yep, the suspension was one of my worries & what led me to this forum and reassured me that I could probably do it myself with a bit of expense!

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    Welcome to the forum. The other issue with those cars is the air suspension but the C5 forum is full of guys who have changed the bags themselves and there is bagpipingandy who is on the forum and a bit of an expert!
     
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