First time VW owner

[rf860]

Welcome mate.  Has insurance gone down ?  I paid that in early nineties for a MK1 Astra GTE.

You'll love the car.  Enjoy it

Not down as such, there was new regs introduced that means that male and female have to be treated the same. I'm still not sure whether it is that that has helped or that fact that i've turned 21 :)

Anybody know of the wheels that are fitted to my car?

The same as these

[MC71]

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You've got the Euro Detriots on at the moment. Nice looking wheels IMO but if you want the Pescara's I'd recommend getting some BBS VZ's in 18"x8" Hyper Silver, same as the BBS CH's and Pescara's. The BZ's come with a ET44 so more room inside the wheel for a BBK than the Pescara's (18"x7.5" ET51) if needed. The VZ wheels fill out the aches better, giving a better stance as well.

Forum member on here sells them band new for £610....

Click here

And you'll have no problem selling the Detriots either. You've not even picked it up yet and we are helping you spend money already!!  

[rf860]

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You've got the Euro Detriots on at the moment. Nice looking wheels IMO but if you want the Pescara's I'd recommend getting some BBS VZ's in 18"x8" Hyper Silver, same as the BBS CH's and Pescara's. They come with ET44 so more room inside the wheel for a BBK than the Pescara's (18"x7.5" ET51) If needed and the wheels fill out the aches better, giving a better stance as well.

Forum member on here sells them band new for £610....

Click here

And you'll have no problem selling the Detriots either. You've not even picked it up yet and we are helping you spend money already!!  

Are they made by VW? At first i thought they were aftermarket until i started looking around.

Thanks for the link. Something to consider when i sell the wheels left by my bmw...

[MC71]

Yes, they are OEM VW wheels for the Euro Edidy as in the pic you posted! 

[rf860]

Yes, they are OEM VW wheels for the Euro Edidy as in the pic you posted! 

Great, eases the mind a bit that they are not cheap aftermarket sh*te! And hopefully further proves to me that the car is standard, which i want.

[rf860]

Picked up the car today. Happy with it apart from the horrible black wheels :( That can be sorted quite easily tho. Going to try and retro fit the cruise control at the weekend and get it cleaned up to my standard! Also, loving the powerrr :D

[Powervalve Nige]

Congrats on getting the Eddy - let the fun commence 
Cheers
Nige

[winrya]

I thought they weren't mean to bring yours down though and just take ours up?!

Oh and welcome by the way 

It's made a massive difference for young male drivers.  Chap who works for me is 18 with a saxo vtr.  Was paying £3200 a year to insure it (£300 a month) and took it off the road a couple of months back as said he'd rather have the money and walk to work.  Came in the other day back in his car.  When I asked how come, he said his insurance had dropped to under £1000.  He was getting this price from everywhere so back on the road for under £100 a month.  Insurance company said it was because of the new rules

[rf860]

For anybody interested, i've taken some pics and set up a rr

http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,60952.0.html

[Rachael]

I thought they weren't mean to bring yours down though and just take ours up?!

Oh and welcome by the way 

It's made a massive difference for young male drivers.  Chap who works for me is 18 with a saxo vtr.  Was paying £3200 a year to insure it (£300 a month) and took it off the road a couple of months back as said he'd rather have the money and walk to work.  Came in the other day back in his car.  When I asked how come, he said his insurance had dropped to under £1000.  He was getting this price from everywhere so back on the road for under £100 a month.  Insurance company said it was because of the new rules

No wonder he took it off the road for that much.
A friend of mine has a diahatsu terrios, 1.3 I think, she's 22 and pays £4000 a year. Shocking.

[sam2kk8]

looks smart