FWIW I drive a ‘17 Alltrack with nearly 100k miles and it’s been incredibly reliable for me; just drove it up and down the entire west coast during a snow storm with zero hiccups. Though from what I’ve read, the MK7 Golf platform is the only real outlier in terms of being a reliable VW

What I’ve learned with VWs is to avoid dealers if you can. If you’re in a decently sized metro area, there are typically more than one good independent shops that specialize in VWs, and will do great work for significantly less.

Came here to find whacky German maintenance stories. was not disappointed.

I had a friend who bought a used CC. I think he spent what this car is asking just in repairs.

I would have understood this better in the original Dutch, or was it to much Grolsch on a Monday morning?

NP, buuut I would try to get it down some dollars before I called it a sale. That’s also assuming that the underside didn’t show rot that we just can’t see.

/s

Reasons I’ve given up on cars in the last few years:

The overall tone of the ad, the wording makes me hesitate. On the face of it, seems like it should be a NP, but the seller comes across as a dickhead and $6200 is too much to put up with the hassle! So No Dice because I wouldn’t want to deal with this guy and his boy-racer modifications.

I am all in, why not? Run a few tests on it, throw a few parts at it, if it works you win, if it doesn’t a guy like me who has never owned one learns to speak Mercedes, and it gets sold for around what I bought it for, or parted out 

The Wankel engine is not Dorito-based, the Dorito is Wankel engine-based.

One friend did launch her dad into the windshield hard enough to crack it when she pressed the clutch with authority on dad’s new 528i automatic, having until that day only trained on a manual G-wagon.

I remember when my Commodore was in the shop (some silly prick had run into the back of it at a traffic light) and the loaner was a Corolla. First automatic I’d ever driven.

If you can’t afford a running example, you sure as hell cannot afford a non running one. ND.

How can it not be better, especially in this market, to pay the cost to repair this before selling it?

See if the previous generation Mazda3 fits. Versatile daily driver.

Yep, a prospective buyer who is affluent enough to pay $55k for this, but wouldn’t just buy something new(er) and still under warranty is the real unicorn.

If it’s all the same to you, I’m not going to watch his video. I don’t want to add to his clicks.

I’ve had an 06 95 wagon for almost nine years, mechanically I have never had a problem finding parts, some parts can be expensive if you want OEM or better quality but they are there.

The grille seems to have survived relatively intact.