Buy Audi 80 or not?

Hello. I’m looking for a car for the transition at the moment. I’ve already looked at 2 Audi 80 because I just like the car. Budget 1250 Euro. In exceptional cases more. Had always someone who is the mechanic himself. The first Audi 80 was really scratchy. The second looked great off to the fact that the automatic turned off a bit rough, but I think I’m normal at that age? What we found was the steering gear, it was a bit leaky and the bellows were torn. In addition, the outer achmanchets were over. The engine was the 2.0E 115 ps. My colleague advised me in every case off of buying. Steering gear would cost me 500 Euro with luck. Repair/sealing should not be allowed. The dungeons he calculated with 100 Euro material per page. Now it’s so that he told me at the time of buying my Octavia 2 2.0 TDI DSG. I still bought it and had a lot of joy with it. Now I saw on the net that the above prices were completely exaggerated. And slowly two Achfe a little bit of the car should not be able to buy it again. Now I need a little more of his opinion.