It sounds like a good deal if you just want a winter car. I'm not a volkswagen fan at all, but hell i'd drive one as a beater over winter and would be more than happy to drive it into a few ditches just for fun
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The single most thing to make sure is that it doesn't have electrical problems. From what i understand, German cars, especially volkswagens, like to run alot of series and series-parallel electrical circuits so when things start opening and shorting (for whatever reason) you'll get some weird stuff happening. I have 3 friends with volkswagens and 2 of them have electrical nightmares on their hands.