Hi there,
Thought I'd show off my car and wonder if previous owner was on here!
Bought it a month and a half ago for £3650.
It's done 142k, but the original owner was fastidious. I've got every receipt going back since 2005 and a shedload of work done to it. DSG oil services every 2 years, entire air con system (including all pipes) refreshed a couple of years ago & previous owner had just spent a small fortune getting cambelt, tensioner, water pump, follower & full service done.
Mechanincally I knew she was a good one (despite the high mileage) but rest of the car was in a bit of a bad way.
Alloys were ridden with white worm and tyres worn.
Lots of parking dings and dents along both sides :(
Windows had been heavily tinted (not to my taste!)
Cheap aftermarket stereo fitted with awful radio reception
Interior trim heavily worn.
The guy who bought it off the original owner had replaced the original 17"s with 18"s - although afterwards found out they were reps :(
This is how she looked when I bought her:
Thanks to this forum, did my research and realised what I needed to do to make her satisfactory to my OCD. Budgeted a grand spend.
£260 - new steering wheel with mutlifunction
£220 - Alloys refurbed (as reps wanted to spend as little as possible so got them painted)
£160 - Replace cheap aftermarket stereo with one with decent aeriel reception. Planned on RC510 but then came across a bargain with a decent pioneer unit on eBay.
£300 - New tyres (Falken)
£100 - New interior trim/grab handles, new DSG MK6 knob/surround that wasn't shiny
£185 - Dent removal
£80 - Window tint/headlight tint removal
Got £100 on ebay for my old steering wheel and £80 back for selling the aftermarket stereo :)
So, all in total spend was around £4600.
After a good clay and polish she now looks great. Really pleased with the stereo as well. Looks OEM (designed for VW), works with mfsw controls and has full postcode sat nav, just screen is a bit small but as long as it sounds good I'm happy!