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Okay, I've seen a number of discussions of if a wizard should craft an arcane bond, but what I don't see "officially" is anything that states if a bonded wand can be crafted at higher than minimum level or with metamagic feats. Could a wizard enchant his arcane bonded wand to be a wand of mage armor with a caster level of 5? Or an extended mage armor wand? I've seen it both ways, as in it follows the normal crafting rules in the Core book and it follows the item availability rules of PFS. I appreciate the help, thanks.
When crafting a wand, scroll, or potion you decide on the caster level, up to your maximum. The caster level then increases the base cost of the item. Using the wand equation, 375 x Spell level x Caster level, the cost of a wand of mage armour at caster level five would be 1875 gold pieces.
To the best of my knowledge --this might be a houserule, I'm not completely sure -- you would count the extended mage armour spell as second level, like normal, for the equation. Though in Pathfinder Society you cannot use any crafting feats.
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If you mean for PFS, I do not think anything about the Wizard's Bonded item allows you to break the PFS rule that wands are at minimum caster level and cannot have metamagic added to them. You're "crafting" the item in that you must meet the level requirement for crafting it, and that you get the reduced cost, but it's not a way around the rule against custom magic items in PFS.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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I believe that you are correct.
A bonded item that is enhanced must still conform to all the campaign rules for access to and upgrading of magical items.
Access to wands in PFS means minimum caster level, unless you found a higher caster level wand on a Chronicle Sheet (or a particular GM Boon) and paid the cost to bond to that item.