I Bought A Cheap Touareg - And It's Crying For Help!

You need to make a T-Shirt with "You massive arch-hole" printed on it 🤣🤣🤣

Owned a 2009 model in the US powered by the 4.2L 310 hp V8. Bought it brand new and sold it back to VW under the Lemon Law 18 months later. In the first year it was at the dealership for repair for 126 days. The engine and transmission were bulletproof but it had continuous electrical issues from minor niggles to the failure of the body control module. I had driven VW Vehicles exclusively up to that point but after that experience I've never purchased another one.

This road tax is criminal how can the government want 30 percent of the vehicles value to put it on the road for a year and think it's acceptable

Yes tax might be a problem but not bad otherwise for the year and mileage I would trade it straight out spend no money somebody out there will want it especially the area you are in take a small profit and be satisfied

sat nav might have not been fitted from factory and added after. I did this in an old ML320. The wiring wasn’t installed for the GPS So added the same GPS as you have under the dash. Worked a treat.

Really enjoy your videos its just showing the viewer the day to day stuff ypur up to what we used to call fly on the wall programmes in the 90s which had massive success

🤣🤣🤣 The seagulls when you did the math 🤣 hilarious

Love these, hopefully it sells soon Joe can’t see it hanging around long. Enjoy this series of the trade in, test drive, repair/clean then up for sale.

Having owned one look our for a noise from the front axle they have tapered bearing that wear and start shedding fine bits if it carries on they will ruin the front diff, It's a front axle off and strip down the last bloke I saw repairing one it only took him 13 hours.

LOL! ' Massive arch holes'. You really are the funniest car dealer Joe. You should bale on that vehicle, of course, it's up to you. Aaaah! smell those Touareg campfires burning your cash. 😁

Top man, good to see another real video

I do like those Touareg's, but the insurance and tax costs would kill me lol. That one had been looked after service-wise. Macauley is an asset to your company. Did the TVs work? The seagulls laughing 🤣🤣

I really like the Touareg - bags of room, comfortable, and with decent tyres on they are very, very capable off-road. I currently run a Volvo V70, Land Rover Freelander 2 and a Skoda Kodiaq. If I was looking for something to haul loads of gear/passengers with off-road capability I would definitely put a Touareg on the short list.

What an asset Macauley is.

Injector blow back, rubber grommet has let go. Lift he engine cowling, you should see the oil around the injector. 👍

Back in 2008 my dad was waiting for a new company car and needed something with a towbar to take our caravan on holiday. His employer hired a car from a local garage, which turned out to be a Touareg with the 5.0 V10 TDI engine. It did about 21mpg whether you were towing or not, and must have looked a bit strange with our small, old, scruffy caravan on the back, but it was an awesome experience for a 9 year old used to run of the mill cars. Thereafter it became known in our family as 'The Monster'. The one thing it wasn't good at dealing with was heavy rain, as the arches were so high that every time you hit a puddle even at relatively low speeds the windscreen would get temporarily flooded!

Had an Altitude V6 myself. Check your central locking locks all the doors, if it has child safety button on drivers door, the door locks are a PITA to source and replace as specific to this model. Also check belts and all pulleys replaced as these can chirp and will fail leaving you at side of road. Fantastic cars though.

Sounds like the auxiliary drive belt tensioner..

Has it got a dot matrix printer installed in the engine bay? That's what the noise sounds like to me.

Miss this content Joe! 🙌🏼