Low mileage diesel Passat, anyone?

OllyM said:
Why? The W12 is a normally aspirated fairly lazily tuned engine in the Phaeton, it's less complex than the V10 TDI with two turbos and all the ancillaries?
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I'm not too clued up on how much the Conti GT W12 differs from the Phaeton W12, but I've come across more than one W12 engines with "just" 40,000ish with rather bad top end taps. Certainly bad enough to make me question if it'll last another 40,000...

Although Saying that, mechanically the Bentley W12 seems strong. Very, VERY rarely will an engine actually be replaced, but to be honest only time will tell.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
LOL :)

Fox strikes again :)
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In his first breath he mentions coming across multiple W12's he feels wont make it to 80k.

Then he goes on to tell us what a strong engine it is, and how utterly rare it is that one requires a new engine.

Unless they go into stasis at 79,999 miles, he contradicts himself.
 
Serious amount of car for the price, but the wood dash is a no no for me.
Utterly despise wood /wood effect interior.
 
Great car if it lasts, but you'd have to have some nuts on you to risk £10k on a car that has a fair chance of making a very expensive pop in the near future.

It may be that the majority of the public do not understand that such an engine could go on for a million miles, but then again, it might well not.
 
[TW]Fox;16363785 said:
In his first breath he mentions coming across multiple W12's he feels wont make it to 80k.

Then he goes on to tell us what a strong engine it is, and how utterly rare it is that one requires a new engine.

Unless they go into stasis at 79,999 miles, he contradicts himself.
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You don't have to defend yourself, I wasn't having a go ;)

I just thought it was funny how you demonstrated he'd owned himself :)
 
Back OT for a second, I was looking at the VW Phaeton page on the main VW web site this afternoon and it stated an updated model is due this summer. It wasn't specific about all of the changes so I am off to have a Google, but if anyone knows could they please post?

TIA.
 
[TW]Fox;16363891 said:
Haha you are joking right? He's not normally my biggest fan, he's hardly a brown noser!
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I've lost my spreadsheet keeping track of who petted you when, so I've had to take the comment at face value.
 
Robbie G said:
Mate, you've got some poo on your nose...
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LMAO :)

You should know by now that I brown nose no-one, on the forums or otherwise.

Fox and I have had our fair share of ding dongs, sometimes I think he's a **** and I'll tell him so, but on this occasion he made me laugh - it was a funny post. Simple as.

I can give you a cuddle though if you're feeling left out? ;)
 
[TW]Fox;16363735 said:
So really then, you've no idea?
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I almost certainly have more of an idea than anyone else in this thread and certainly more than you.

I hate to take the bait, but please remember that I've worked on these cars day in, day out for the past year and a half and have been spannering about on cars with my father when I was 3 years old. I like to think that by now I've developed an ear for when an engine sounds healthy and when an engine does not. I have come across several, high mileage W12s that I deem to not sound "Healthy"

Mechanical problems on the Bentley W12 are rare, but high mileage cars cars are even rarer. Like I said previously, Judging what I've heard I'm not convinced that they'll do 250,000 miles, but seeing as how as the highest mileage car I've dealt with only had 60,000 on the clock, only time will tell.
 
With respect, you work at a franchised dealer. Given the amount of universal slagging that franchised dealer technicians get both on and offline, you'll forgive me if I refuse to accept that just because you work there, you actually know what you are talking about.

I'm sure we've all lost count of the number of times we experience people working for a firm who just don't have any idea.

Even the most wealthy dont tend to buy a W12 Bentley to do huge mileage in - they are far too busy doing other things to waste most of their life on the road - which is why you dont tend to see cars with mega miles inside the dealer network.
 
The Mad Rapper said:
Is it my eyes, or has the hideous wooden trim been replaced with something else? :)
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Would certainly appear to be a piano black trim, which may, or may not be wood.

I would actually be surprised if even in piano black form, it isn't wood. The only other way to get piano black would be plastic, which would be cold to the touch and certainly cheaper feeling, both of which I would assume they would try to avoid.
 
[TW]Fox;16363935 said:
Even the most wealthy dont tend to buy a W12 Bentley to do huge mileage in - they are far too busy doing other things to waste most of their life on the road - which is why you dont tend to see cars with mega miles inside the dealer network.
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My wife and I are friends with a couple, the husband works for a French bank in the City. He owns a Bentley Continental which, from what I understand, he rarely drives.

He has a Honda Accord and a RR Sport for his daily drives, the Bentley is kept in secure storage somewhere on the outskirts of West London. He'll drive there to collect it and go for a spin perhaps once or twice a month from what I understand.

I've never asked him if that's just to keep the mileage down - perhaps he just doesn't have the time. Who knows?
 
Robbie G said:
Great car if it lasts, but you'd have to have some nuts on you to risk £10k on a car that has a fair chance of making a very expensive pop in the near future..
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I dont think you have to be nuts, that car is a total bargain. Look at what you are getting for your £10k, rather a lot. Even if it cost that £10k again in repairs over a couple of years, you have still had a decent driving experience for the money.
 
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