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Title: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: WYATT on 15 April 2009, 19:43
What is your most favorite part about your mk2?

it can be anything from the sound to the MPG or even a sight like whats your favorite part of the body work ,just anything ?



Joe
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: juleshs on 15 April 2009, 19:46
my favourite part will be the mot after spending 4+ years getting it up and running and still loads to do on it
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Conker on 15 April 2009, 20:11
Ordering a part and getting a bill for £1.50 or something mega-low like that.


Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: JC on 15 April 2009, 20:31
nowt -  :huh:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: jamie_pyrite on 15 April 2009, 21:14
My old golf.. the minty freshness and cleanliness  :cool:


My mk2 Jetta? The price! £200 for the car, sold the spares it came with and made £100 back! :D
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: russ-vdub on 15 April 2009, 21:40
Pretty much everything :)

- Price
- Looks
- Power
- Build quality
- Parts (Cheap and swapable with other VAG cars)
- Insurance (with the right credentials)
- Reliability
- Engineering

The whole damn package!
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: A7 UFO on 15 April 2009, 21:47
the sound of the turbo spinning up
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: isub on 15 April 2009, 21:48
They have the sexest front wings of any car  :laugh:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: dan_apps on 15 April 2009, 21:58
nowt -  :huh:

:rolleyes: yes you do you'll be sad to see her go!
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: baronvontinkle on 15 April 2009, 22:17
The fact it flew through the mot this afternoon and my Clio Sport failed the other month!

Dont make them like they used to!
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Dr@c_GTI on 15 April 2009, 22:26
Just the fact that its a MK2 Golf :D :laugh:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: hartdub on 15 April 2009, 22:36
Gear stick, I love the fact that I can get PURE POWER when i change my gear.... great control feeling !
 :cool:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Mr Blue on 15 April 2009, 22:38
The front big bumper and the quad headlamps are my favorite bits. :smiley: Abit of a fetish  :drool:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Thom89 on 16 April 2009, 00:23
This pic was taken about an hour after the windscreen was removed, I can remember thinking just how crisp the spot welds still looked, and the only work that needed doing to the scuttle panel, was to shot blast a couple of tiny stone chips.. don't know why, but this pic just sums up my car (Pic is now 5yrs old)

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f90/thom62/golf022.jpg)
Tom
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: luked on 16 April 2009, 00:41
the front twin headlight set up. love the look.  :smiley:

Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Martz on 16 April 2009, 00:48
I love that fact that it's tucked away in the garage and will be sorted! I do like the silver ghetto's stance!
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: JonnyGti on 16 April 2009, 08:06
Cheap parts, lens fell out on headlight, look on ebay win one for 99p
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: MarkS on 16 April 2009, 09:21
Gear change
Handling
How (I think) it still looks good now 19 years on.
The exhaust note at full throttle
BBS wheels

:)
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: wampablo on 16 April 2009, 10:02
purely and simply the look of it when its sat on my drive with the steering on full lock oh and the cheap insurance  :grin:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: twistedblack69 on 16 April 2009, 10:32
The difference in sound between when your foot is half down and when it's all the way down  :cool: :cool:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: kittie on 16 April 2009, 12:16
'Chuckability' and looks  :grin:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: tony_ack on 16 April 2009, 15:32
The good bits:
The extra bit of 'oomph' on my 8v after passing 60mph in 3rd (rev counter doesn't work!)
The fact it just pulls and pulls and the engine feels comfortable and refined at any speed
The grip when accelerating hard around a tight-ish corner
Remembering after half an hour of driving that the throttle pedal actually goes down a lot further than you've been using it
The front grille (quads+red stipe+black VW badge+'GTI')
The golf ball shaped gear knob
The dash warning LEDs
The look on chav Corsa driver's face in the rear-view mirror!

The bad bits:
Finding out that you can get fewer and fewer new parts from your local VAG (ebay makes up for some of this though!)
The realisation that it will die before most other cars on the road
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: beechymonza on 16 April 2009, 17:52
when you polished it on a summers day, an then you park it up down at local pub by the river on the nite, it just looks so nice compared 2 other cars along side it
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: dubvrs on 16 April 2009, 21:22
The fact it's on a K plate
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r301/dubvrs/P1000696-1.jpg)

The look on mk2 owners face when they see the switch on the dash for the electric sunroof  :shocked:
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r301/dubvrs/P1000669-1.jpg)
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: dan7 on 16 April 2009, 21:47
The look of it and the comments I get near enough every day, from strangers admiring it! Condition, bearing in mind it's coming up to 20 years old!!! The way you can chuck it into a corner at pretty much whatever speed you like and come out facing the same way!!!!!  :cool:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Skywalker80 on 16 April 2009, 22:05
I love everything about my MK2!

The fact I have no PAS, no E/W or C/L but a car that goes round corners like it was on rails and pulls like a train in every gear.

Makes me smile everytime I drive it, and the attention and respect it gets from the "Modern" car owners is amazing.

Best car ever.
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: shep-mk2 on 16 April 2009, 22:11
The view from the front, nothing meaner.....

.....it used to be the sound of the engine but now it makes a horrid tapping sound and I can't fix it!!!!!  :sad:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: petrolh34d on 17 April 2009, 14:10
The way my Scorpion DTM exhaust changes pitch and whine as she powers through the revs  :grin:

sounds like a symphony orchestra or something.
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: dubber36 on 17 April 2009, 16:51
The fact that I have finally got the car I could only dream of owning when I was 20 (19 years ago)

A very original, oak green, big bumper valver :smiley:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: dirtydub on 17 April 2009, 17:32
love the looks even after 23 years of age, most new cars look ghey  :wink:

the induction roar, build quality, smell of the interior...

and
and
and...

well just everything  :cool:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: earlymk2 on 17 April 2009, 20:47
The fact i have driven it pretty much all day and not seen another one :grin:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: gstar-dubworld on 17 April 2009, 20:52
My green wheels oh and the rest is not too bad either :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: What is your most favorite part about your mk2?
Post by: Royalblue on 17 April 2009, 21:55
The  fact it hasn't got central locking and I don't have to tear my hair out over some recurrent failure of such an unnessary mod con.  :cool:

And hey, a free workout due to keep-fit window winders. Manual all the way!  :laugh:

And the total absence of an ECU on the 1.3 engine. This seems to be a natural remedy for headaches.  :grin:

What's more, the new spotlights, which are in mint condition, and have made such an difference to the look.