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At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« on: April 18, 2016, 11:59:57 am »
Hi chaps!

I've owned my 2.0T A3 since the summer of 2010. I purchased it second hand - it was a 2006/55 car with less than 22k on the clock. Now it has around 97k on it.

It's given me reasonably reliable service up until last year, when one thing after another seems to have gone wrong with it. Over the weekend I visited @vRSAlex for a test drive because my gearbox is playing up (not going to be a cheap repair by the sounds of it), and then when I got back home I closed the glove box only for the hinge to snap. Unless I can repair it (which I'm going to try today), it'll be a new glove box which is £££, and I've got to find the right one with a hole for a CD player and they're like hens' teeth.

I'd maybe have changed it sooner but I went back to uni in 2012 and am due to graduate this year (touch wood). In the last 12 months I'll probably have spent around 50% of the value of the car on fairly routine maintenance. I wanted to keep it long term and turn it into a track car, but I'm starting to get quite fed up of things constantly going wrong with it and part of me just wants to get rid. I think the glove box was just the straw that broke the camel's back for me.

At what point do you guys say enough is enough?
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2016, 12:18:45 pm »
A broken glovebox wouldn't be the slightest worry if you still enjoyed the car and had some love for it. It'd be fixed in a day and onwards you go.

But if you've had enough, which it sounds like you have, little things like that seem to add weight to your justification that it's time to move on. They shouldn't, because it's nothing, but they do.

Just make sure you know what you want your next car to be. Research the hell out of it. What do you have in mind?
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2016, 02:09:30 pm »
Mk7 GTI Clubsport or an 8V RS3.

Tbh I'm not gonna be in a position to buy a car for at least a year, and my wife will probably need a car before I do meaning I'm stuck with the 8P for a little while longer.
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2016, 10:06:51 am »
I tend to get 'itchy feet' around the 2 / 2.5 year mark, or earlier if the car is involved in any kind of accident  :ashamed:  :grin:

I've had my R32 now for just over two years and have looked at some rather contrasting replacements.. GT86, Mk7 GTD, and a few other things but I know I'd miss the character of that VR6 engine and the build quality & superior design of the german car if I strayed to another brand. So for now, the mk5 stays  :wink:
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2016, 10:08:36 am »
Mines 9 years old and Ive had it 6 years in september. Its on 97K and its starting to show its age a bit, but it still makes me giggle so Ill keep it  :smiley:
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2016, 07:42:57 pm »
Yours has a K04 tho, doesn't it? Mine doesn't lol!
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2016, 07:44:04 pm »
Put a TTE420 in in then!  :smiley:
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2016, 07:49:24 pm »
Quote from: rich83 on April 19, 2016, 07:44:04 pm
Put a TTE420 in in then!  :smiley:
If only us BWA/AXX lot could get away with that kind of power

I reckon even a k04 is getting into dodgy territory.
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2016, 08:09:35 pm »
Yeah big turbos are not the done thing on the AXX unfortunately!
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2016, 08:38:42 pm »
My last 5 cars lasted around 6 months each. Get bored very quickly unless it's in bits  :laugh:
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Re: At what point do you get fed up with an old car?
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2016, 08:48:16 pm »
Had my golfR for around 2 1/2 years,My feet are starting to get itchy,but find it very hard to find a replacement
So far I've narrowed down my search to
S3 saloon dsg
Mk7R dsg
A45 AMG
F30 335i


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