1.9 Tdi Advice Needed

[me myself and I]

Peeps,

I have been offered a 1998 1.9tdi for a song.It is lying in a garden unused.

A couple of questions.

Are they any good.170,000 miles on the clock

1 problem. and I qoute "Starts nearly every time and the odd time it wont start and flattens the battery.Once you bleed the fuel it starts and runs fine"

Sounds like a leaky fuel pump or a badly applied fuel filter.Is it comon trouble for the fuel pump to go on these and are they fixable or just need to replaced.

Ta in advnce

[Neils TDi again]

The fuel lift pump diaghram is the nromal cause of this and its pretty easy to change. I had a 1.9 TDi with 300k miles on the clock and it was still going (albiet an injector was blowing) then some twat wrote it off for my sister.