VW Passat wagon (118 TSi) - what to look out for?

[bennybennybenny]

Hi guys,
Big time newbie here, but looking for a little bit of assitance. I have kid #2 on the way and so looking to replace one of our sedans with a used wagon. I test drove a 2011 VW Passat wagon (11(with the 1.8 TSi petrol) the other day was quite impressed by it for 12 year old car. I know some VW's of this vintage had issues with the DSG gearboxes, especially the 7 speeds so I'm just wondering what I should be on the lookout for with a car like this? Would this be a DQ200 DSG box?


I haven't driven a car with DSG before, but this one seemed to drive pretty well, changed through gears well, couldn't really hear any noises out of the ordinary. The car has 112,000km on the clock and has been serviced at the local specialist VW dealer (Solitaire Automotive) for all of it's services up to the 100,000km service which was done at an independent garage (non VW specialist). The current owner has had the car for 8 months and by the looks of the records has only had an oil and filter change done in that time for which he provided a receipt for but nothing was ticked off in the book.


Any help or advice would be appreciated for any specific things I should be looking out for, or should I steer away from Passat's of this vintage and look at soemthing else?


Cheers Benny

[Passat my07]

It’d be worth getting it checked properly by a VW specialist first. They did have some issues with oil consumption/pistons and the dsg. There is a thread in the mk6 golf section with 1300 replies about the 118 tsi.
It’s probably only a small percentage that give issues though and many would’ve already been fixed.

[bennybennybenny]

It’d be worth getting it checked properly by a VW specialist first. They did have some issues with oil consumption/pistons and the dsg. There is a thread in the mk6 golf section with 1300 replies about the 118 tsi.
It’s probably only a small percentage that give issues though and many would’ve already been fixed.

Thanks for your reply Passat my07. I ended up passing on the wagon as the seller didn't want to play ball with having an inspection done.

I'll check out the Mk6 Gold sub-forum to see what the major pain points are iwht the 118 tsi.

Cheers Benny

[MIG]

The B6 and B7 Passat's are solid vehicles, as mentioned above, try and avoid the 7-speed DSGs and the 118TSI.