Been lurking here for a few months dreaming of getting a Bora 4motion and somehow I have completed negotiations on the purchase of one and should be picking up the car tomorrow morning.

I have wanted a Bora 4mo for a while but as it would never be big enough for a family car I had resigned myself to not being able to convince my wife to let me spend that much on a 10 year old second car. But times have changed with both my finances and the market for 4motion Boras.

This will be my first VW in about 20 years, I had a mildly beat-up Mk1 Golf back in the early 90s that was awesome fun. I seem to have always been around VWs without actually owning many.

The Bora is a white 2001 model with 167,000kms. I looked at a few other ones with lower kms (including one at a dealer in southern Sydney that has either been accidentally filled with mayonnaise instead of oil or has a head gasket problem) but this one has a 100% complete always-on-time service history done by either VW dealers or VW specialists. It has also had about $4000 spent so far this year on suspension, aircon and clutch. The car has been owned by a German couple who replaced it with a new BMW 3 series convertible. From the condition of the car and the attitudes of the owners I am pretty confident it has been looked after.

I'm sure there is a list of things I need to check once I take possession, like sunroof drains, clutch pedal welds etc, is there a definitive list somewhere?

Also, when it comes to wheels, am I realistic in thinking I could hang around forums like this and eBay for a couple of months and pick up a set of oettinger 17" or are they harder to get than that?