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Hello everyone, newbie and potential new owner here
So I saw this red 3dr Up! online and it looks like a great first car for me. I came to study in the UK(Motorsport MSc, dream course!) just two months ago and need a car to get around, it'll be not only my first car in the country but also the first car I own.
After a call to the seller it turned out he's selling it for his brother's girlfriend, who has moved to Australia. As a result he has basically no idea of the car's service&maintainance history...things he does know are:
1. The last VW service stamp is from [email protected] miles.
2. The car went into limp mode once on the road, was taken to VW and got "inlet manifold or something" changed. No major problems since then.
3. It was used for daily commute and it's done mostly motorway miles.
He doesn't know if anything else has been changed on the car, or if/how it has been maintaned after the 24k service.
The seller's located 100miles from where I live so I need to decide if it's even worth it to go see the car. My guess is it might have got serviced in a local garage or something, because can it really run 47k miles without any maintainance even an oil change? But I'm really not sure what to expect and would love any input from you kind owners! Like what to check if I do see the car, how to tell if it has been taken care of, etc. apart from this nice list by @plancast in the "Advice on buying a second hand up! please" thread.
Many thanks in advance!
Li
So I saw this red 3dr Up! online and it looks like a great first car for me. I came to study in the UK(Motorsport MSc, dream course!) just two months ago and need a car to get around, it'll be not only my first car in the country but also the first car I own.
After a call to the seller it turned out he's selling it for his brother's girlfriend, who has moved to Australia. As a result he has basically no idea of the car's service&maintainance history...things he does know are:
1. The last VW service stamp is from [email protected] miles.
2. The car went into limp mode once on the road, was taken to VW and got "inlet manifold or something" changed. No major problems since then.
3. It was used for daily commute and it's done mostly motorway miles.
He doesn't know if anything else has been changed on the car, or if/how it has been maintaned after the 24k service.
The seller's located 100miles from where I live so I need to decide if it's even worth it to go see the car. My guess is it might have got serviced in a local garage or something, because can it really run 47k miles without any maintainance even an oil change? But I'm really not sure what to expect and would love any input from you kind owners! Like what to check if I do see the car, how to tell if it has been taken care of, etc. apart from this nice list by @plancast in the "Advice on buying a second hand up! please" thread.
Many thanks in advance!
Li