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General => New forum members => Topic started by: minimadmotorman on 26 April 2010, 10:08
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Hi There!
My GF has just bought a 1995 MK3 8v GTI and I have signed up here mainly to learn a bit more about the cars as I will be the one looking after it.
I'll post a couple of pics and some details up in a few minutes.
All the best,
John
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Seeing as some scumbag twocked our gert's 1997 "India Gold" Corsa (maybe did her a favour) we were on the lookout for a new budget motor for her.
We were looking at modern small engined cars and over the last few weeks we have looked at Corsa's, Puma's, Fiesta's, Escort's, Tigra's you name it.
However this car caught her eye and she fell in love with it as soon as she saw it.
It's a 1995 MK3 8V GTI in metallic blue (anyone know the colour name, never seen another GTI in this colour) bit of a change from what she was initially looking for.
The car is near immaculate barring a small mark on the passenger sill step a very slight scuff on the rear bumper (only saw it because I was told by its current owner) and the alloy wheels have a bit of lacquer bubbling around the valves.
It has a mahoosive folder full of service history and reciepts. It's almost totally standard save for a stainless CAT back exhaust (this has been custom made to replicate the OE exhaust and is very quiet) and a VR6 front splitter. It even still has the factory fitted head unit and genuine VW floor mats.
Despite having 118k on the clock it drives like new and absolutely everything works.
EDIT: IMAGES LOST
We viewed the car a couple of weeks ago and left it as it was one of the first cars we looked at. We drove another lower mileage newer GTI for comparisons sake and TBH it wasn't quite as good as this one.
After fruitlessly looking at other cars we went for another look and made a deal on it.
Long term plans are to sort the sill step, the scuff and eventually refurb the alloys. After that hopefully it will just be regular maintenance and enjoy the car. :smiley:
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Cheers :smiley:
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welcome... lovely colour... its called Fjord Blue and the code is LR5V :wink:
all the best people have that colour mk3 :laugh:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3456609805_9868a87d4a.jpg)
the only thing i would really suggest thinking about is getting a decent suspension on there as the standard handling is shockingly bad.. this will transform your boat car!
looks very well looked after and nice and clean! :cool:
ps. if you want an aero rear wiper then let me know http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=115011.0 (http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=115011.0)
pps. you have a nice house! :shocked:
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oh... and how bad is the scuff? pics?
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It had all the suspension replaced not too long ago but only with OE kit. The ride is pretty compliant and seems to handle reasonably well. Previous owner had the car aligned when the suspension was done.
Don't have any pics of the scuff yet but it's bad enough not to polish out. I reckon a repaint of the rear bumper will be in order at some point.
Thanks for the offer of the aero wiper but I reckon standard is the way forward with this machine :nerd:
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okey dokey
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BTW thats Canon Hall in Barnsley. My house is much better :laugh:
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Welcome to the forum :cool:
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welcome along :cool: very tidy looking motor :smiley:
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Hello and welcome
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Well we've just bought this car back after selling it in 2014.
We originally bought the car back in 2010 and my OH ran it as her daily until 2014 when we discovered we were going to be having twins!
It was sold to a friends brother who's done quite a bit of work that it was getting ready for, we instantly regretted the sale but at the time it was necessary.
The chap who bought along with his family runs a brill body shop and while he had it did the following:-
It had a tiny patch of rust on passenger door sill step when we bought it which was getting bigger, this has been cut out and replaced and repainted, the bodykit has been off and the inevitable rust behind them cut out replaced and repainted the arches had to be tweaked to get the p-slots in too when it was lowered, it's also had a light coat of underseal on the underside.
The rear axle was removed and had its bushes replaced and powder coated, new front arms, front & rear discs & pads, coilovers, bottom ball joints, track rod ends, rear engine mount, aux belts, new water pump, new clutch kit, new sump and gasket.
I've probably missed some bits!
The paint that you can actually see on the car is almost all original from the 90's so it does have a few minor marks here and there but as you can see she's still very presentable.
It will need the windscreen out and a repair to the leading edge of the roof at some point, so we will probably have the roof panel sprayed next year. We knew about this before we sold the car as we had a new windscreen in late 2012 and at the screen fitter sealed it with some rust preventing primer/paint prior to replacing the screen and it doesn't seem to have gotten any worse in the last 5 years.
I'd like to get the mudflaps back on it if possible but not sure if it will be too low for them. I'll have to source some too as I don't think the last owner has them anymore.
Might swap the suspension back to Bilstein B4's and Eibach 30mm springs as the ride is a bit bobby with the coilovers on.
Something I can say though is that it's good to have her back!
Let the pics do the talking:-
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4498/37725723796_4034611dd1_b.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4497/23921334888_33ace0fa7c_b.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4479/37742355162_f00c9396a2_b.jpg)
And just in case we want a more original look:-
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4480/37104231543_1349201a85_b.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4490/37104231513_8172b67eeb_b.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4480/37515912160_f43b618f46_b.jpg)
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