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Alun
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I Want To Come Back!!

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Morning all!

Well, after wrongly selling my beloved B5 Turbo Sport and 3 cars later I've decided that I want to rejoin Passat ownership, just got to sell my current car to fund the new one. I want another B5 but I have a couple of questions:

B5's seem to of dropped in value in recent years, can you really get one for under a grand?

I think I could end up getting the 1.8 non turbo (altough would have another turbo), should I be worried about high mileage, say 120-140k? What kind of mileage do these engines run to? I know with the turbo models the oil can become sludgy, I'm guessing this doesnt happen as much on the non turbos?

I know the usual things to look out for, cambelts every 60k, waterpumps, water ingress, MAF's, anyhting else to watch out for on the non turbo models?

Thanks in advance everyone, just hope my Vectra sells quickly! (although I think it will, got one of the nicer ones!)
2001 Vaxhall Vectra SRi 130 2.2DTi Estate

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