97 Jetta TDI on FB Marketplace, 33k miles...

[Mongler98]

You bought a broken 20 year old fake Porsche for $4k. Yeah, that's a GREAT deal. LMAO....

It works just fine, CEL came on for its timing service.
Still nicer than any VW ever mad, close to the Phaton though!

 

[oilhammer]

It is a Touareg with a 911-styled skin stretched over it. That makes it "nicer"? LMAO, you're too much, man.

 

[Drewser]

What is this "rust" thing you all speak of?

Guess that's one advantage of our "dry heat" 120 degree summers...we get to deal with melted wax dripping out of the MKIV doors instead.

 

[IndigoBlueWagon]

And falling headliners, and fogged headlights, and deteriorating rubber bits...every climate has its advantages and disadvantages. Here in MA we're expecting snow tonight.

 

[Drewser]

And falling headliners, and fogged headlights, and deteriorating rubber bits...every climate has its advantages and disadvantages. Here in MA we're expecting snow tonight.

Ha, it's 90 degrees here and my AC is on high

 

[Steve Addy]

It works just fine, CEL came on for its timing service.
Still nicer than any VW ever mad, close to the Phaton though!

To each his own, but I wouldn't touch a used Cayenne with a 10' pole, even if the pole belonged to someone else. And how is a Cayenne not just a reskinned Touareg? Interior appointments and body skin aside they are identical.

And the only Phaeton (I assume that's what you meant?) I would want would be a SWB TDI car from Europe, the simplest of the lot.

I might be biased because I came here from the Mk2 cars (my first VW was a Mk2) but I know the Mk2/3/B3/B4 platform really well and I know how to maintain it. That's probably not worth a lot since these are so old but when my cars are all on this platform it makes my job a lot easier.

As for Boxters, the only ones that are down in the $7k range you mentioned appear to be the beaten ones that aren't worth buying IMO.

Steve