How many miles it done? They're supposed to last the life of the engine aren't they?
Hearing stuff like this always concerns me... Having just bought a
cash absorbtion device VR6 myself, and already having had to fix some big-ass cooling pipe, a door lock, an electric window, the clutch slave cylinder, and now have discovered a CV joint is knackered.. I can well believe it'll decide to throw it's chain out the bonnet and allow the engine to grid itself to pieces. I think it hates me.
And I bought it off a mate of mine! Bastard. To be totally honest, he either honestly didn't know about the problems (I lived with him while he owned it for 2 years - I only moved out about a month and a half before buying it) And none of it is that bad really - I know a cheap mechanic and can do quite a bit myself

And at least I know which bits are new.