MK 5 Golf GTI, 100K miles
Discussion
I generally buy my cars when they are old and cheap with 80 or 90K miles on and chatting to a female work colleague last week who has a Mk5 GTI with 160K miles on it got me thinking...they are getting cheap! One near me is going for £4K with 100K miles and full history, seems decent value for one of the highest rated GTIs ever!
..but are they reliable with high mileage and do they still drive well? I heard the TSI engine drinks a fair bit of oil with miles....
..but are they reliable with high mileage and do they still drive well? I heard the TSI engine drinks a fair bit of oil with miles....
They're pretty reliable. Aside from cambelts and HPFP cam follower, there aren't any common serious issues on them. Diverter valves and PCVs go, they can chew through front CV joints, rusty front wings due to poor paint/finish quality control are sadly quite common, DSG mechatronic failures can happy but typically affect cars that have been lackadaisically serviced, the odd snapped spring, manifold intake runner flaps can seize and throw a CEL, air conditioning compressors die (and cost a fortune to replace), ones that have been used for lots of short journeys or run on poor oil sometimes exhibit cylinder head coking.
A 100k car should have had two cambelts. I've got the Leon version, on a mixed journey I'll average about 33-34mpg but my overall averages are lower as I do a lot of town driving.
A 100k car should have had two cambelts. I've got the Leon version, on a mixed journey I'll average about 33-34mpg but my overall averages are lower as I do a lot of town driving.
Tonsko said:
SuperchargedVR6 said:
God knows where these 30s average mpgs are coming from. I averaged 25 in my old R32 and my Edition 30 averages about 26-27ish.
Mm, that's pretty much what mine is. Just chilling on a m-way though, it has even edged 32!SuperchargedVR6 said:
I don't chill, which probably explains it! Normally do 85-90 on motorways and always hard on it when accelerating. Got to really otherwise I get bored.
I know what you mean. However, when I was driving backwards and forward to London every week at one point (~200 miles), I tried it two ways - once at 70 all the way, the other at a bit more. Used 1/2 a tank on the 70mph journey, a full tank on the other and only arrived 20 minutes earlier. I kind of lost the taste for it after that... 80 quid vs 160 return trip every week!I ran one last year from 95k up to 99k. Although it needed a few wear and tear items replacing, the engine and DSG gearbox were spot on. Definitely had lots of life left in it. Just make sure stuff like the cambelt have been done.
Prices seem to have flattened out as have been very little movement for the past couple of years, hovering around the £4k mark for a 10 year old example.
Prices seem to have flattened out as have been very little movement for the past couple of years, hovering around the £4k mark for a 10 year old example.
bigvanfan said:
Ours has done 152k now, probably takes 3l of oil between services.ive never had a problem with the engine and its on its original clutch, at 100k it will need shocks and all the front bushes doing, I get 31 mpg, great car I'd recommend it
That's a good recommendation, thanks and the oil consumption on these engines certainly is fairly high. Put it this way, my current Mazda 6 petrol with 112K miles used under a litre between the last two services over 12,500 miles. However, I remember the briefly revived Performance car magazine running one back in 2008/9 and it was guzzling 2 litres of oil between services with 70K on the clock, so at least the oil consumption doesn't get that much worse with double the miles. Fair point re shocks and bushes. Cars definitely lose their "tightness" with age. Good to hear that these engines are still going strong past 150K miles.Edited by GreenArrow on Friday 7th August 18:37
I think they are holding their value very well, £5000 for a nine year old car with 100,000+ miles? They are no Gumtree special yet.
You will need a look at a number at that age/mileage or know a friends car. All the bad points are well known (see above) so you should expect no big surprises, with new springs/dampers/top mounts it will drive nearly as new (well, plus good tyres, alignment etc) so budget another £1000 if you want everything just right.
You will need a look at a number at that age/mileage or know a friends car. All the bad points are well known (see above) so you should expect no big surprises, with new springs/dampers/top mounts it will drive nearly as new (well, plus good tyres, alignment etc) so budget another £1000 if you want everything just right.
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