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Trade-in Volkswagen Passat. Fifth International

Even among classmates, folk people stand out by no means ridiculous prices for most buyers. But pretty faded specimens of the second freshness in the vice.
Not surprising: well, tailored cars were practically invulnerable to our not always smooth roads. Today, the ratings of dealerships are headed by the Passat B5 model of the penultimate generation.
WHO IS LAST?
Actually, fans of the brand with their favorites are reluctant to part. In operation, the machine is unpretentious, and it is possible to exhaust the resource with average annual runes of 2025 thousand km. Actually after 1015 years. And the car is less than evenly for the first two to three years by 30%, the next five each 10% per year. Then, having replaced, as a rule, the second owner, the car leaves the legal field of Trade-in, plunging into the abyss of the spontaneous market.
The situation gives rise to a deficit demand for used passats exceeds the offer of dealers! In auto-alaa, for example, for each of 25, the passats sold per month accounts for one and a half buyers. The rivalry, of course, the virtual one does not suit a run, someone is waiting for a certain package, etc.
Corporate customers usually sell vehicles to the commission mainly sold out written copies among their own. The most popular models of Passat B5 and B5 plus at the age of 34 years with a mileage up to 120 thousand km. Prices, not much different from the average market, start from $ 15 thousand.
The newly arrived car passes a full physical examination. The process takes one and a half of the Humanities and costs the surrender of two thousand rubles. The suspension and body are checked mainly visually. The power unit is subjected to a more serious exam. The compression, oil pressure is measured, and control errors are scanned. In addition, the cost of recovery repair is sometimes distinguished with serious defects sometimes differs significantly. It is good when the ABS refusal is caused by an oxidized connector worse if the electronic unit burned down.
They eliminate only malfunctions that affect traffic safety, and disadvantages that can scare the buyer (for example, knocking in the suspension). Equally incredulously, customers relate to fresh paint to irrefutable testimony of large body repair. Go prove that the wing was painted because of several scratches! Knowing this, they try not to touch the coating, presenting the goods with a face. And light makeup in the form of polishing with dry cleaning only emphasizes its attractiveness.
Having chosen the attracted car, the buyer will certainly take an interest in his biography. According to the manufacturer’s database, the dealer will be able to determine the model, color, complete set, and even the date of shipment to the consumer. Here you can find out whether the party spoke to eliminate any defects and whether this copy was covered by the action. If not, the factory will not passionately fulfill obligations regardless of the year of production and the purchase site of the car! In Russia, there is no single database on the genealogy of cars so far, alas,. However, official sellers are constantly exchanging information to protect customers from unfortunate specimens with interrupted numbers and twisted odometers. And although auto-alaa does not give additional guarantees for used cars, a guarantee of legal purity of the transaction is necessarily present.
Volkswagen Passat the machine is reliable, but not eternal. It is possible that the copy acquired for half price will soon demand additional investments. The parable in the tongue aluminum levers of the front suspension. The delicate details born for perfect coatings of autobahns at first could not withstand more than 4050 thousand km in our conditions. After 1999, the situation changed for the better advanced parts nursed 100 thousand km. If you put the original on the company service, you will receive two years of guarantees for spare parts and to work.
By 90 thousand km, the turn of the gear belt is coming. But there is an occasion for optimism due to the longitudinal location of the engine, the operation does not take away so many normally. Version 1.8t with turbocharges is sensitive to the quality of motor oil. But in a favorable situation, the risk of a turbocharger breakdown after 150 thousand km of run increases many times. For replacement, you need to reserve about one and a half thousand. e, the resource of the engine itself is more than 400 thousand (there have not yet been noted large run by dealers).
The rest is not so scary. Once every two years, it is necessary to change the brake fluid and at the same time change the sealing rings on the rear brake hoses aluminum parts are excellently dissolved by anti -icing reagents. By 150 thousand km, the sewphone will surely burn out between the silencer and the catalyst. The exhaust system itself serves much longer than 250300 thousand km.
The brake discs are practically not jacking. Their service life is determined mainly by the final driving manner, as a rule, coincides with the wear of the second set of pads. A specific feature of the vehicle. If a fair amount of water enters the salon (with melt snow or through the air with a drain clogged with leaves), the wiring laid under the rug suffers.
Necessary and sufficient
At the site of finished products, our attention was attracted by a dark blue Passat B5 Plus, put up for sale only an hour earlier. Not to say that the color is a decisive factor, but in comparison with the anthracite and silver that was filled with Moscow, a noble shade clearly pleased the eye.
The 2001 sedan of production with a mileage of 128 thousand km in auto-ale was estimated at $ 15 thousand. According to the computer, the current (and the only one!) The owner paid as much as $ 27 thousand four years ago. And there was something 150-horsepower 1, An 8-liter engine with a turbocharger, climate control, combined (leather+alcantara) seats with heating, wood inserts that surprisingly with luxury elements, only two airbags and a mechanical gearbox were calmly adjacent. It turned out that this is the peculiarity of the brand. The buyer here is not tied to certain sets of options, but builds a car for himself. The only mandatory addition to the package for bad roads (enhanced suspension and additional 30 mm clearance). Without it, the B5 was officially delivered to Russia. However, the one who is not the first time gets behind the wheel, is unlikely to refuse such a gift. Another pleasant surprise adapted to our conditions is designed for 92nd gasoline.
The strongest impression of the trip is a sense of own security and confidence in the car. Where does it come from, we do not undertake to explain extreme exercises we did not do. But sitting behind the wheel, for some reason they firmly knew that we would reach the goal without adventure. Actually, for this we buy a car
 
Evgeny Borisenkov
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"