Seen a ed30 dsg on the net with 68k full vwsh,what do you think as price is good but bit concerned with the mileage...are the engine+ gearbox reliable??
I know what you mean Dan, 68k 'feels' high but in the real world, it's really not compared with a lot of 3/4/5 year old cars. The servicing is the key here.
I bought my GTI just as it turned 3 years old (on a 2006 zero six plate) and it had higher than I wanted mileage @ 54,000 with one owner up in Wigan, but it was from a Volkswagen main dealer and a years warranty and three year gap insurance was thrown in the price. It more importantly also had a full long life VWSH which made it feel a lot less miles in terms of what may go wrong from wear and tear. I made sure as soon as I got it I put it on my own time/distance servicing schedule, for example the oil had only been changed twice in 54k miles
This is very common on the VW longlife servicing plan as you may know.
Two and a half years later I'm on 91,000 miles, the only thing that actually needed replacing outside of service scheduling was the air con compressor which you'll probably have seen is a favourite failure on the MK5. Despite being two weeks out of used car warranty, it was replaced by my nearest Porsche/VW specialist for just under £100 (I bought the compressor myself).
Apart from that it's been mechanically sound and drives as smoothly as when I bought it
I'd like to think I've looked after it and like anything if I hadn't, I'd have expected issues whether it had 54,000 miles or 4,000 miles
