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Offline daveiow

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Isle of Wight newbie
« on: August 11, 2013, 08:20:34 am »
Not new to VW's and have had several MK'5s as company cars and having just left VW handed back a MK7 Gti as well.

Anyway on the look out for a MK5 Gti for the wife Ive just sold my 20vt MK2 and will be looking to replace the wife's MK5 for a car that will be mainly her car but something fun for me to drive on my days off.

So keeping an eye on the classifieds for a car.

Anyways Hello and as soon as I have one build thread will be started ;)

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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2013, 07:58:01 pm »
a up Dave

spoken to you many times on golf gti forum mate i have not long been converted to mk5 from mk4 mate love every minute can't wait to see you build thread start on here

cheers Gordon

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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2013, 08:48:43 pm »
Welcome there mate.

What sort of budget are you allowing for? 

As you probably know there are two formats to look at with the Mk5 GTI's; K03 and K04.

A K04 will give you much bigger results when you mod it up... circa 360bhp+ where as the K03 is pretty much out of puff around 280bhp

The Mk6 seem to produce slightly better results in both torque and bhp over the K03... that said a well setup K03 GTI around 240-260bhp is no slouch, and really maximizes the standard brakes / handling.
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2013, 08:06:57 pm »
Budget to buy is around 6-8k so im not in K04 car money im afraid.

Gordon there are 2 Daveiow's on club Gti ;)

Looking forward to getting one I can play with and not just drive as all the previous ones have been company cars :grin:
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2013, 08:40:25 pm »
did you used to have a dark blue mk4 with porsche turbo wheels
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2013, 09:51:44 pm »
No. Mine have been red and then silver one just sold tonight.

So need a car asap.

thoughts on this one :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-Mk5-Golf-GTI-20T-/121156053933#ht_4134wt_1810
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2013, 09:54:39 pm »
sorry Dave my bag

looks tidy just wings for rot and also make sure it don't sound like a diesel as that first sign off cam chain off doing
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2013, 09:59:36 pm »
Just thinking of making an offer. Just a pain for me to get to from the bloody Island. Anyways. £6500 for it ?
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2013, 07:25:52 pm »
where abouts is it if close enough to me I will have look round it for you mate
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2013, 08:24:54 pm »
Its in Cambridgeshire mate. Where abouts are you ?
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2013, 08:34:14 pm »
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2013, 08:50:38 pm »
I am in Lincolnshire mate Cambridge is about 1 hour 45 Mins from if I had known last week was  down there as well mate that one local to you looks clean and is standard which is how I prefer to buy mine to be fair but each to there own I just always curious how people have used them you no what i mean
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2013, 09:00:46 pm »
Just spoken to the one local to me and got him down on the price. Have arranged to go up Thursday night. Just need to get me some xenons for the spec I was looking for. Then the fun can start.

So thanks for the help and figures crossed its as good as its sounds.

Full service history, had the cambelt last year and last service was at 72k. All wheels have just been refurbed as well
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2013, 09:37:05 pm »
all I will say is just make sure there no loud knocking when engine up to temperature as that can be costly mate but looks tidy
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Re: Isle of Wight newbie
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2013, 09:45:48 pm »
Thanks im going to try and get one of my mates (VW Tech)from the VW dealer I left last month to come with me.

Already filling my ebay with things to buy lol.

Need to make sure the paints mint first though as it bugs the hell out of me if its not
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