Depends on the diesel, although all those potential failure items you mention are standard on anything brand new now of course.

On mine I only have the turbo to worry about, but as the use of turbos with petrol engines continues to increase, there is a potential worry factor there for someone buying a petrol turbo vehicle as well.

Then you have the case of TSI engine problems and failures of course. So it ends up being swings and roundabouts

How did you handle the test drive and that on it? I can imagine every boy racer and tire kicker wanting a spin, did you ask for license or that?

Depends on the diesel, although all those potential failure items you mention are standard on anything brand new now of course.

On mine I only have the turbo to worry about, but as the use of turbos with petrol engines continues to increase, there is a potential worry factor there for someone buying a petrol turbo vehicle as well.

Then you have the case of TSI engine problems and failures of course. So it ends up being swings and roundabouts

I have the 1.8 TSI and from what i have read the tensioner problems on these would seem to be less than that of the 2.0 TSI unit. Prior to this car i had a Leon with the 1.9 tdi 130 engine, lovely engine, economical, powerful , but fancied a change and as i dont do that many miles so went back to Petrol, some days seems like a good decision, others not..

How did you handle the test drive and that on it? I can imagine every boy racer and tire kicker wanting a spin, did you ask for license or that?

he was an honest 55yr old local guy with his mate, we established that we had mutual friends /collegaues in the area from the off so he wasnt going to crap on his own doorstep so to speak. when it came to testdrive, I took the keys for his a4 and he took it out.

know what you mean though, anybody else and I would have been in the passenger seat, it was only due to the above and the fact I've jiggered my back that I did it that way