Should I buy this 2006?

2006 Jetta manual transmission with package 2 and 270k miles. It has service records and timing belt/ water pump and camshaft was supposedly replaced last January (I am waiting to see receipt for that). It will need new tires.

It is silver and has some dings and scratches and a couple chips that have surface rust but not rot that I could find. No accidents.

Interior is dirty and headliner needs to be replaced.

The engine is all stock with the exception of an EGR delete. There are 2 engine codes; the first is P0122 (throttle/pedal position sensor) and P2413 (exhaust gas recirculation system). Will those codes be an issue or easily fixable?

Lookin at this for new teenage driver, so I accept the car won’t be perfect.

hm.... i feel like this could be gotten for cheaper. If he has receipts for all of that and they match up then possibly. Try and compare the price of what was done to the price of the car.

Were the computer scans done using a generic obdii scaner? They will just report the obdii table codes. There may be more vag specific codes stored.


As for the exhaust gas recirc code, seems the EGR was removed without an ECU flash. This will me remedied by re attaching the EGR system.

Carlos_TJ said:

Were the computer scans done using a generic obdii scaner? They will just report the obdii table codes. There may be more vag specific codes stored.


As for the exhaust gas recirc code, seems the EGR was removed without an ECU flash. This will me remedied by re attaching the EGR system.

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Carlos, it was just scanned with a generic scanner and not Vagcom. No reprogramming of the ecu was done.

The EGR may have been removed because of a leaking EGR cooler, and the PO didnt want to cough the $$ for the replacement. What other half @ssed fixes were done to the car?

Pay a nearby guru for an inspection. Its money well spent and you will know what you are facing

Carlos_TJ said:

The EGR may have been removed because of a leaking EGR cooler, and the PO didnt want to cough the $$ for the replacement. What other half @ssed fixes were done to the car?

Pay a nearby guru for an inspection. Its money well spent and you will know what you are facing

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I would, but the seller hasn’t gotten back to me since I test drive the car on Friday so he may have already sold it. Too bad, it would have made a nice first car for my daughter.

Seller decided to keep the car and take it off the market. Darn it.

Take look at this 2006 5sp manual:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=487641

It is more $ but has only 106K in the odometer.
Max

The car is back on the market and he send me the receipt for the camshaft, followers, timing belt and water pump replacement from a local reputable VW shop.

I am planning on picking it up this weekend.

Remember that any first car for a child will most likely get wrecked. My daughter wrecked one, my son had wrecked at least 2 and my Grand daughter wrecked 2 within about a year of each car.

The GD's 2nd wreck was a Chevy Equinox which is the best thing that could have happened to that pile of poo. It looked nice except it had some expensive major repairs in it future. The bright side with GM products is when they move all of their production to China, quality will improve.................................or not.

No one was injured in any of those collisions...........

I paid $2k for mine with 180k but I had to put $3500 into it, and bought it running and driveable. Currently at 188k, everything needs to be redone including wheel bearings, brakes you name it. The last owner apparently just drove it like a toyota owner and probably just did the oil changes/filters.