I decided to needed to grow up and get a nicer daily car, had a budget of £5.5k, had loads of cars in mind but i knew i would only be happy with a golf gti.
This one was on ebay for £6k
Chose it on a number of factors:
-Brand new 6 month tax disc (doesn't even start until next month)
-Long mot
-Full service history
-Recent bridgestones all around
-Optional 18" monza alloys (ideal for upgrading to r32/s3 brakes) and 6 d changer
-79k miles, low for age and low for the price, most are well over 100k
-Only 2 owners
-Lastly she accepted my offer of £5.5k
I'm going to do the following:
-replace PCV valve
(DONE)-service
(DONE)-Chrome tipped h/light switch
(DONE)-Front wings replaced under warranty
(DONE)-Longlife back box delete
(DONE)-ED30/R32 rear light mod
(DONE)-Pressed plates
(DONE)-Rev G DV
(DONE)-remap
(DONE)-S3 wishbones
(DONE)-Michelin PS3's
(DONE)-Aluminium mirror switch
(DONE)-R32 rear
(DONE)-Sachs 550nm clutch and oem dmf and slave
(DONE)-higher temp brake fluid
(DONE)-thermostat
(DONE)-cambelt and water pump
(DONE)-refurb the alloys (little tatty, might go a darker colour)
-Lower
-powerflex engine mount
Would love to upgrade to the ko4 turbo(s3 spec), turbo back exhaust, fmic etc but that is a lot of money and i could do with paying the car off first lol
Might fit the r32 lower half of the rear bumper as i feel the rear bumper lets the gti down, it looks like a base model bumper with an exhaust cut out, the r32 bumper is a nicer shape, if i do this then ill get the sideskirts and front splitter colour coded to match
on the sunday after buying it on the thrsday i had a low oil pressure light come on! not good!
so the car was booked in at the local german specialist and they picked up on various valves/sesnors that needed replacing and an oil breather that was blocked alon with other dodgy repairs where parts had broken and bits were missing, got the car back yesterday with a £500 bill!!
Safe to say this has been scanned in and emailed to the dealer, there is no warrenty on the car but every motor trader have legal responsibilities and i want the majority of this paid off by them.
On a plus point ive changed my insurance saving me a shed load of money, i was paying £90 a month on the vts and they put it up £30 per month to £120, i did some comparing last night and ive got it down to £37!! fully comp, i also went through top cash back so i am getting £25 back, im also cancelling a magazine subscription, these two savings are basically paying the monthly repayments on the loan BOOM!
Just got an email back from the dealer basically telling me to do one because I didn't give them chance to fix it themselves, which unfortunately is their right however they said they will give me a free full service when it's due which is next month which will save me about £300 so I can't complain to much
