My son owns a Mk V R32 Golf and we are looking at buying a T1 Touareg powered by an R5 TDI with about 130k's on it.

The R5 TDI looks to be a bit of a wierd beast with with all the ancillary pumps being diret drive. I guess my greatest worry is reliability of this engine. Are they inherently unreliable? We intend on doing a lot of outback travel in it.