Hi all,

So, I am looking at a few Passat's atm, decided against the 4mo 3.2 and have my heart set on an '06 TDI (103.)

Its from just down the road and we know the mechanic and have spoken to them about the car, the owner was forthcoming with all problems and told us that an injector was replaced.

It seems that the injector didn't fail catastrophically like the piezo 'failure' because the car was still able to run after it went (albeit quite rough.) The injector and loom were replaced 9 months and 9000 k's ago. The car has 117,000 k's on it and is in otherwise perfect condition with full service history.

I love it and really want it, but am a little nervous. Reading ukpassats.co.uk, one of the members reported a 5-10% failure rate and reading through the injector fail registry in this forum, most of the failures occur before 70000k's. With these two in mind, I am feeling OK about it. But my main concern is that the engine shuts down while my wife is driving our two daughters somewhere and she loses power steering and braking.

Somebody else on there reported that the new loom was different and the problem might be less likely to occur... Who knows though.

I'm not sure that a car as old (!) as this one and with as many k's would be treated under any 'goodwill' from our local VW dealer ('Bill Buckle'.)

Are there many B6 owners who have avoided this problem entirely?

A part of me is leaning towards an FSI to avoid this problem, but the fact is, that all cars can have expensive problems.

Thanks guys, any advice/opinions/warnings are greatly appreciated.

Christian