First off, what's with the hate for high mileage TDIs?? When I was working as a medical courier, I did over 400 miles per day, 5 days a week, in my Golf (that's 100,000 miles per year). It was 95% highway miles, and anyone who's seen my car will tell you that it's in terrific shape for the miles. If I was still working, mine would be right up there with this one, probably higher.
Given the right conditions (mostly highway miles), $3500 isn't out of line for a car like mine, or the one in the auction, if it's had the same kind of driving and has been properly maintained.
Personally, I wouldn't take $5,000 for mine if it was offered.
Secondly, go back to that thread I referenced earlier. A fellow member's 2003 Jetta's odometer had maxed out at 1 million KMs (620something K miles), and several people did checks, research into how the gauge cluster was designed, and it was determined that it couldn't go over that figure. The New Beetle's gauge cluster was made by another manufacturer who put enough memory to go over that figure, but not the Jettas or Golfs.
EDIT: I found this post in the other thread. It states:
Given the right conditions (mostly highway miles), $3500 isn't out of line for a car like mine, or the one in the auction, if it's had the same kind of driving and has been properly maintained.
Personally, I wouldn't take $5,000 for mine if it was offered.
Secondly, go back to that thread I referenced earlier. A fellow member's 2003 Jetta's odometer had maxed out at 1 million KMs (620something K miles), and several people did checks, research into how the gauge cluster was designed, and it was determined that it couldn't go over that figure. The New Beetle's gauge cluster was made by another manufacturer who put enough memory to go over that figure, but not the Jettas or Golfs.
EDIT: I found this post in the other thread. It states:
If correct, this makes this Jetta's reading plausible, but doesn't explain why Brian's odometer stopped at 621,358 miles.The odometer could technically go to 655350 miles before running out of a way to store the value in the cluster but I guess they limit it to 999,999km's which is why your miles stopped early.
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