Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Oh and auto if it makes a difference.

We haz Golf diesel auto, £191 a month on personal contract hire from VW Crewe. Dunno why but Crewe was way cheaper than anyone else and they delivered the car. There are 3 payments up front, so in reality it's another £10 a month, but still great value. Way cheaper than buying and selling yourself could ever be.

@Dammit

Rear delta bushs are a pain, they mostly rattle over low speed bumps to tell you they are gone, but some just sag and demolish tyre side walls. Basically in corners the rear end complies and when the bushs are shagged the tyre rolls right over onto the sidewall leaving big bits of it missing in a short ish period of time.
When you get them replaced there is a special volvo tool for pulling the old ones out. Or use fire, lots and lots of fire.
Lemforder make the best bush for the job. Then polly bush the other link and get a 4 wheel alignment, weighted if you can as it makes a big difference. Or are you on self levellers still?

Anyone looking for a tidy MK1 Golf GTi?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/222014834663

Shame about the exhaust

Is it worth paying for an AA / RAC inspection for a main dealer bought used car with 20k on the clock?

I wouldn't have thought so, or, rather, I'd not bother - it comes with a warranty as it's a dealer car presumably?

This one is much nicer for 10% of the price

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-MK1-Golf-1-3-Driver-1983-Orange-Coilovers-Borbets-Ts-/201518792897

That is nice!

I'm not up on what early Golfs are going for at the moment but, as above, the exhaust and the what looks to be non-factory spoiler aren't really doing it for me on that one. I only posted it as a point of interest.

The dealer seems to have some Porsche stock that I'd rather spend my money on!

I wonder how much my gtd is worth with mk2 engine?

Two owners and 200k, 15k on the new engine and box. Never been welded and resprayed twice dues to accident damage as the paint match reasons as the car is metallic silver.

I've no connection to it other than I've read the build thread on vzi and purely by coincidence I saw it driving round Aylesbury 2 weeks ago. Very nice. Nearly £30k for that GTi is crazy.

Am I stupid to be considering an oldish Audi TT, should I just get a golf?

Other consideration is a Mini Cooper.

Depends on the oldishness.

Do you have little people and if so, how big are the little people?

2 of them 5 & nearly 2.

The car would be an interim solution, also looking at Bmw 3 series.

TT 2003 ish

If you need to carry a whole whack of shit around for the kids then it probably isn't the best car for you.

I wasn't the first owner, but I had one of the first ones in the UK - denim blue paint with baseball glove stitched tan nappa interior. Those first gen cars were keepers. Can't stand the reincarnations.

Wrote it off in the lanes of Essex.

Ouch.

I don't want to think about it because I find it really rather upsetting and it was a wonderful little car. Whilst it weighed more than my M3, it didn't weigh a thing by comparison to cars of today.

I came into a bend far too hot to find a tractor trying to overtake a combine harvester. My mid-twenties reflexes helped me avoid both, but I ended up in a ditch with the car perched on the only concrete bollard for about ten miles, after it had torn the bottom of the engine off.

I got out of the car with a very sore neck and claret coming out of my head and went to give the other drivers a mouthful. OB said I was really very lucky, but both drivers of the agricultural vehicles said that I must've entered the bend too quickly. I got three points for speeding and they admitted liability, but my insurance on the M3 doubled.

Fucking farmers.

I agree with this. ^

1st gen 225 with baseball leather (though I don't like denim blue, soz) would be a great keeper. Proper landmark car before Audis became wank. They're not especially great to drive, but as a piece of design they're a bit special.

With two nippers I'd get a Golf Mk5 GTi instead tho. Plus the 2.0 Turbo is eleventy billion times nicer than the gruff 1.8 in the TT.

I quite liked the fact that I had to rev the shit out of it to get it to do anything.

Basically @Buckaroo, get a Golf GTi.

^ This is what my Bro currently has (mk5 GTI). The nippers have'nt stopped him pushing the bhp above 200 either.

There's a reason why they're best sellers.

I do like this e30..,

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201512249654217

Ta fellas. Golf GTI I could live with, it's just the designer in me getting hot under the collar for a design classic.

No worries.

If you're going for an E30, look at 320's.