High mileage passat

[patmahe]

Hi all I did do a search so I'm sorry if this is a repost. I need a daily sh1tter, as cheap as I can get while still being reliable and reasonable to look at, it needs to be fuel efficient.

I've settled on the passat - probably 97-99 vintage.

My question is this with 125,000 to 200,000 miles up and a fsh are these cars generally reliable?? what should I be looking for at this stage, clutch gearbox etc. What are signs of a good/bad one?