2.5/2.8 Crd Voyager Or Grand Voyager

[Ohwell]

Newbie to this site.

I'm a vw nut through and through but since my family is growing I've found myself needing a 7 seater. So since I was looking at vw/seat to stick to what I know. I've found myself looking at these cars for the following reasons.

Well spec'ed

Mahoosive (massive)

More practical for our needs having sliding doors.

 

But while I'm looking at these cars I'm finding a lot of common issues.

 

Rear tyres seem to get eaten.

Sliding doors and tailgate central locking issues.

Handbrake not holding

Top mounts seem weak.

Rot. Rot everywhere. Mostly son the sills and chassis mounts.

Wiper stork only working on fastest speed ?

Lights seem to be temperamental.

 

I'm not shying away but I would like to know what are the common faults or anymore that I haven't listed.

 

Out of 8 I think I've looked at I've only driven two but all were way over priced for the faults they had. Which when I've looked without my budget in these cars are oddly priced. Anything from 500 to £5000 and doesn't really matter on the age.

 

Thanks for any comments

[Woodie106]

My 2005 ltd xs stow & go may well be up for sale in February. Its done 118000. Had cam belt done at 66000 so will be due another soon probably within the next 6 months. I have a chrysler specialist near me who can do anything on these & has no quarms about ding a cam belt.

its been our workhouse for the last 10 years. Been looked after well enough &never had an advisory on an mot apart from when i left child seats in the back so they couldn't test the seat belts.

Would be selling as we are getting a motobility vehicle.

 

Not sure if you allow ads in posts like this but if not i won't be upset if you delete this post.

[Ohwell]

I am also looking to buy a Grand Voyager Ltd with Stow n Go. I want a 55 reg on without starship miles although good service history is more important than actual miles in my opinion, not bothered if diesel or LPG (actually I would prefer an LPG I think). I am looking to spend under £3500 in total and have considered a couple that needed work however it seems that the timing belt replacement times are impossible to work out (I have been told 60K miles and also 100K miles???) and finding one in my price range and way above, with written proof that it has been replaced is like finding hens teeth, noone seems to bother and I just know that if I bought one of these the belt would snap on the drive home.....

It is easy to spend money on a dog but I have happily owned my present car (Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.0 V6 diesel (Mercedes lump)) for 6 1/2 years and been totally happy with it and only suffered one fault, which was a known fault and easily rectified (if not so cheaply...) so I am being very careful looking for the replacement vehicle.

Not easy is it?

Good luck with your search Ohwell

 

Keith

thanks

It's not easy trying to look past all the riffraff about.

What gets me is the sellers lying or not telling the whole truth about the car(s). so hten travel upto 40 miles to look and then see then drive back without.

 

I'm looking at a grand voyager limited on sat morning. It's fully loaded but my concern is it's had an engine rebuild with invoice to show what's been done. Down side is it's 168k miles.

Until I get there I don't know what to expect.

Just getting fed up with looking at rubbish.

My car got sold last sat so only have my works van for transport.

Edited December 8, 2016 by Ohwell

[Ohwell]

My 2005 ltd xs stow & go may well be up for sale in February. Its done 118000. Had cam belt done at 66000 so will be due another soon probably within the next 6 months. I have a chrysler specialist near me who can do anything on these & has no quarms about ding a cam belt.

its been our workhouse for the last 10 years. Been looked after well enough &never had an advisory on an mot apart from when i left child seats in the back so they couldn't test the seat belts.

Would be selling as we are getting a motobility vehicle.

 

Not sure if you allow ads in posts like this but if not i won't be upset if you delete this post.

Nice ad but for me Feb is too late as I need one now lol.

My misses is 24 weeks today with twins and not having a car now as is old it I'm really on the hunt.

If I don't get one by xmas then I'll be looking at a different make which isn't what I want but needs must.

Thanks though.