Gti Mk5 Standard vs Gti Ed30 - Same Price But Which One?

[scottm72]

Personally not fussed about added extras as long as the car has fsh, looks tidy outside and inside and drives good

Good man. Enjoy driving the bloody thing. Xenons won't make up for a poor car, although if a good car has them then fair enough.

Who needs a reversing camera anyway, apart from corpulent oafs?

saying that i dug the car out for the wife on sat and parked it on the road after digging all the snow, 1 foot behind her was the snow piles from the diggers shoving it all onto the side, about 1 foot high.
what does the wife do when she gets in it, puts it into reverse and goes straight into the snow / ice pile 
AND THATS WITH A MK6 REVERSE CAMERA  unbeleivable,,, all she had to do was dfrive straight off,,,, thankfully no damage,,, might have been a different story if the rear bumper was colour coded
honestly - what more could i have done lol

[camfollower]

Personally not fussed about added extras as long as the car has fsh, looks tidy outside and inside and drives good

Good man. Enjoy driving the bloody thing. Xenons won't make up for a poor car, although if a good car has them then fair enough.

Who needs a reversing camera anyway, apart from corpulent oafs?

saying that i dug the car out for the wife on sat and parked it on the road after digging all the snow, 1 foot behind her was the snow piles from the diggers shoving it all onto the side, about 1 foot high.
what does the wife do when she gets in it, puts it into reverse and goes straight into the snow / ice pile 
AND THATS WITH A MK6 REVERSE CAMERA  unbeleivable,,, all she had to do was dfrive straight off,,,, thankfully no damage,,, might have been a different story if the rear bumper was colour coded
honestly - what more could i have done lol

Still your fault no doubt.

[outlandish]

Thanks for the advice, I went for the eddy! Had mot few days ago with no advisories and recently serviced, cambelt done yesterday (4 years old change). Great drive, test drive it twice and no issues, and if course on my journey home with my eddy the brakes decided to whistle sometimes when pressed at high speeds!?! Maybe the car is happy to have me as an owner and is signing to me haha but in all seriousness that does concern me. Orange, apples, pears.....

[scottm72]

good buy,,, i have found in my experience ( and i used to sell cars for arnold clark as well ) that the selling garages so called service isnt worth a sh*t.
they rarely change the plugs
they put crap oil in
and they just skim the rest
anything to keep the costs down.
i bought my car around 4 months ago and they serviced it before the sale marking on the service book that plugs etc had been changed, it also had 8 months mot.
the first thing i did was re-mot it ( best way to check for any defects and only £50 or so )
the mot was clean.
around a month ago i had it serviced and the spark plugs have been in there for years lol ( i knew it )
got a complete oil change ( plugs and oil supplied by me )
changed all the filters
engine flush
and brake fluid change.
tbh it doesnt drive any different as its only 4 years old but at least i have piece of mind the correct stuff is in the car now.
as for your whistling brakes !!!
cant recall ever hearing a whistle before but one possibility could be the surface rust on the brake discs just gently hitting the brake pad as the wheel is rotating,,, if it is it will dissappear in a few days.
may be something completely different but brakes do not like sitting around,
keep us posted buddy