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Superliminal:
Just picked up my first Mk5 and since this seems like best forum for them I thought I'd sign up.

In case the title didn't give it away, my name's Matt, and I live in Northampton.  I'm now the proud owner of an '05 GTI.  It's got 116k on the clock and is in tidy (but not perfect) condition.  I've had it for just under a week.  Here it is:



I wasn't looking for one of these originally.  I'd just sold my e46 M3 because I needed to free up some cash.  My first plan was to spend about a grand or less and put some money aside in savings.  At first I looked at a friend's Mk4 Gti.  He only wanted £250 for it, but on inspection I worked out why; dirty, cracked bumpers, dodgy driver's seat, potentially slipping clutch, and worst of all - the 20v NA engine.  I worked out it to get it up to scratch would set be back another £600.  Just not worth it to me; if I wanted to spend £800 ish on a Mk4, it would be a 1.8T.  That said, looking around further at a notional £1000 budget all I could find were good cars 200 miles away, obviously crap cars, or suspiciously good cars in really rapey (not a typo) locations.  I decided to up my budget a bit.  I sorted the Autotrader results by distance and this beauty showed up at the top of the list.  <5 miles.  Madness.  I viewed it and bought it the next day.

Despite having BMWs for a few years, I'm no stranger to VW's.  This is my 9th Golf, and 12th VW overall.  I've had a couple of Mk1s that never actually made it to the road, a Mk2 1.6 Driver, a Mk2 16v that I dropped an ABF 2.0 into, a Mk3 cabrio, a Mk3 VR6, 2 Mk4 GT TDIs, a Lupo 16v Sport and a couple of Passat 1.8Ts.  I've also had a bunch of other non-dubs as well, including a couple of Audi S2 Avants, 3 e46's, and some tinny French stuff.  If anyone's interested I'll post some pics and details of my previous cars later on.

So, back to the Mk5.  Lovely.  I must admit, the only thing I'm missing about the M3 is the noise.  Yeah it was quick, but it was all top end and frankly I'm told old to be wringing an engine out like constantly.  I'm loving the mid range punch of the TFSI lump.  It could do with a bit more power further up the rev range, though I expect the DV is knackered.  Following an intense period of procrastination I'll eventually get around to looking at it.  Other plans include replacing the cam follower and the PCV valve - just as a matter of preventative maintenance.  I also need to tidy up the paint a bit - some carefully applied touch up paint and some polish should see it looking reasonable.  The wheels are all kerbed, however it's all superficial so a DIY refurb is on the cards.  They're 17" Monza's in silver paint so it'll be easy to get them looking new again.  Finally, I'm waiting for my lovely postman to bring me a Pioneer AVIC-F9110BT unit that I won via a popular internet auction site.  It'll be a nice replacement for the truly horrible RCD300 that's currently blighting my dash.

See, told you it would be long and rambling.  I'm not afraid of getting the spanners out, so hopefully it won't be long before I can start properly contributing to the forum instead of just reading.

Oh, and a virtual pint for whoever gets the username reference without resorting to Google.

Thanks for reading.

prp74:
Welcome to the forum. Get some pics up  :happy2:

AJP:
Good intro! Decent car history you've got too, especially the S2s. I was into B3s and B4s a few years ago, although I never found an S2. Lovely cars. Wouldn't mind seeing some pics of those - as well as the mk5 (the image you posted doesn't work).

Welcome to the forum anyway

Superliminal:
Thanks for the warm welcome.  Not sure what was going with Photobucket earlier.  User error no doubt!

Will get some pics of the other motors up later.

Andy:
Welcome to the forum Matt
Get a build thread going in the members ride section.
and more photos

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