slag
18-08-2017, 01:15 AM
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,
Ed.
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,
Ed.