Nasir - How do you shuffle playlist 6? (i.e. everything on there?) sounds like it will no doubt become a preferred option. To be honest, for free I can more than live with that system (although let's see what I'm saying in 6 months!)
Monte - No worries re the smilies - that's how i'm feeling! Either picking the car up tom afternoon or Weds morning. Will get some piccies up when I can (it will be standard for the forseeable future! - I have no idea what you said to me re the lowering, different lingo!
). Let's hope it is a happy end to the story!
Steve - Very similar boats! Good work with the Ed 30. Do you know when they first came out I wasn't overly keen, preferred the stock GTI. Appreciated the body coloured bumpers but the wheels although a great design didn't suit the car as much as the Mmonza's. I have to say since then the look has nothing but grown on me, love them. Golf ball gearstick as well - what colour did you go for?
Only problem I have is I'm so wary of being ripped off with a clone or somet. See below the action I took when looking into this car, I'll run through the spec and price then what I did to put my mind at ease.
56 plate, black (metallic) 5 dr GTI - standard in every way except iPod Interface and mud flaps
21,000 miles
2 owners, just serviced, mot'd.
£12,980 - seemed a good deal to me, interior literally as new
I thus far have checked:
HPI report - all clean
VIN numbers below window, under bonnet (dirty, no sign of being touched - that said, wouldn't mind a picture of what this should look like to compare against if anyone has)
Asked for previous owners number (checked against V5). Spoke to previous owner for 30 mins on phone who was from Scotland - top guy, had nothing but good things to say about car, he bought a year a go with 10k on clock, did another 10k motorway then sold (checked reasons for sale, appear genuine and no reason to lie!)
Dealership have been spot on - autovip.co.uk - check the website (car is still on there), they deal mainly in prestige cars, dealer confirmed don't normally sell VW but were offered this one and was impeccable so bought.
Anything else I should be checking or am I just paranoid? £12,980 strikes me as a good deal - not too good to be dodgy? Nothing has felt dodgy, rear driver door sticks a little on opening - from what I can tell neither previous owner had kids so doesn't sound like it has been used much. When I spoke to previous owner he did mention that without prompt that he had noticed it when he bought it but again it was a car purely to take him to work so again no usage. Panels etc look fine and I'm sure a bit of WD40 will cure as it is minor.
I get like this with every second hand car I buy (better to be safe suppose!). Even the Honda Civic when I bought that from a Honda main dealer I went through a similar exercise!
Big post - sorry. as mentioned, I'm really built up for this car!
