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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: MK6-Fan on 08 September 2015, 18:57
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I have always wanted a Golf GTI & am now in the position to buy one. It will be on Hire Purchase as I want to own the car at the end of the contract but have a few dilemmas:
As sad as this, I can't bear to part with my current MK6 Golf Match 1.4 TSI (122) & would probably declare this SORN to make way for the GTI.
- Is it ridiculous to own two cars when the other will seldomly be getting used?
I can afford the monthly payments on the GTI which will just be a completely standard model in manual and in 3dr with the Jacara Cloth.
I would like to order in the next 3 months but would this necessarily guarantee a March 2016 delivery for the new '16' plates?
Thanks all. :smiley:
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Why not trade the Golf Match Mk6 in and reduce costs on your Golf GTI. Once you drive the GTI you will not want to go back to the Golf Match. Well this would the case for me anyway. Although I can relate to liking a car so much it would be sad to see it eventually go. :smiley:
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Lead time on the GTI seems to be around the 12 weeks mark judging by my experience and others on here so ordering in Decemeber should see you with a 16 plate. Best to confirm with your dealer though.
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I had a Mercedes SLK280 in my garage for the sunshine day driving pleasures but I have sold it this year because the GTI is such a complete car, you can drive it down to the shops or becomie a boy racer again, it just brings a big smile to your face every journey. I had a twenty mile drive to the dentist today and took the long way there and back just for the fun of it. :smiley:
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Keeping the mk6 is a silly idea, either sell it and add some options to the gti or buy something more interesting to have as a second car.
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Crazy to keep the 6. Sell it private for the best return or just trade it against the gti and save yourself on the monthly repayments.
Mine arrived in 10 weeks and is a base spec 3dr.
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I have always wanted a Golf GTI & am now in the position to buy one. It will be on Hire Purchase as I want to own the car at the end of the contract but have a few dilemmas:
As sad as this, I can't bear to part with my current MK6 Golf Match 1.4 TSI (122) & would probably declare this SORN to make way for the GTI.
- Is it ridiculous to own two cars when the other will seldomly be getting used?
I can afford the monthly payments on the GTI which will just be a completely standard model in manual and in 3dr with the Jacara Cloth.
I would like to order in the next 3 months but would this necessarily guarantee a March 2016 delivery for the new '16' plates?
Thanks all. :smiley:
Yes, it is, unless it's a classic car, or a very different fun weekend car. Why can't you bear to part with it? Now I loved my Mk6 but waved goodbye to it last week to make way for A new R. Course there was the little matter of it paying for half the new car, so that was incentive enough, lol.
As others have said, let the Match go, either sell privately or p/x against the new GTI. I'm sure you'll forget it in an instant once you get the new car.
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What others have said! The GTI is such a great car, I can't see why you'd want your Match. Also, why would you want, and I apologise for the terminology, such an ordinary car depreciating on your drive? It's hardly irreplaceable should you want another, sitting around really doesn't do a car any good and you are just throwing money away. Sell it!
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Agree with the advice above.... I had a Mk.6 Match too - really liked it but no point keeping a car off the road depreciating and useless...
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I also had a Mk6 Match and very quickly sold it after getting my Mk7 GTD! I had both of them for a couple of weeks but there really was no point. Put the cash in the bank, might eventually use it towards a weekend toy :smiley:
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I sympathise that you want to keep it, as I get attached to cars and keep them for a long time. Why not use it as a run about to keep the mileage and short stop-start journeys down on the GTi? VW Insurance allow you to have your NCD on both cars (most insurers don't) you could insure it for a limited annual mileage - don't think the cost would be too bad. With my MK 4 it is a no-brainer as the £700 it costs to keep it on the road for a year is less than the depreciation to my new GTi fom the extra miles.
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Sell the Mk6 and buy a Honda S2000/Elise or whatever for cheap, soft-top thrills... and keep that in the garage...
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I've just paid a deposit on a new GTI ( carbon grey, performance pack, 5 door, manual ) and this will be a cash purchase as I also like to own my car.
I want a new 16 plate so the dealer has told me that he will just put the order in at the beginning of Dec.
I could barely hand over the keys of my 56 plate Audi A3 tdi 170 s line. I owned that car from new and had covered less than 37000 miles in it. I'd have kept it if I could.
It seems crazy getting sentimental over a car but when you've had it so long, it is a wrench to think of someone else driving it and probably abusing it!
I'm sure that when the Golf arrives I will quickly forget about it.
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I could barely hand over the keys of my 56 plate Audi A3 tdi 170 s line. I owned that car from new and had covered less than 37000 miles in it. I'd have kept it if I could.
It seems crazy getting sentimental over a car but when you've had it so long, it is a wrench to think of someone else driving it and probably abusing it!
I'm sure that when the Golf arrives I will quickly forget about it.
I know exactly what you mean. I'd had my last car (also an Audi) for 12 years from new and was dreading selling it. In the end, a friend from work had it and is looking after it rather well except for the alloys which I'd had refurbished and are now all badly kerbed :cry: My GTI has been fantastic and although I miss the Audi, I get to see it regularly but I'm very happy with my new car.
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I put my order in a week or so ago for a GTI with a few options on and was told it was 14-16 weeks wait time.
If it's due for delivery in February I'll hold them off registering it until March but if it's earlier that that I won't be able to resist :laugh:
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I could barely hand over the keys of my 56 plate Audi A3 tdi 170 s line. I owned that car from new and had covered less than 37000 miles in it. I'd have kept it if I could.
It seems crazy getting sentimental over a car but when you've had it so long, it is a wrench to think of someone else driving it and probably abusing it!
I'm sure that when the Golf arrives I will quickly forget about it.
I know exactly what you mean. I'd had my last car (also an Audi) for 12 years from new and was dreading selling it. In the end, a friend from work had it and is looking after it rather well except for the alloys which I'd had refurbished and are now all badly kerbed :cry: My GTI has been fantastic and although I miss the Audi, I get to see it regularly but I'm very happy with my new car.
My brother in law bought my last Golf, a 53 plate TDI, after I'd bought my Audi.
He really wanted my Audi but didn't have the funds, so it had to go.
It would have been nice to keep it in the family but it wasn't to be.
I might give my dealer a call and ask him to order my GTI a bit earlier if the build time is 14/16 weeks.
I still want the new 16 plate so if it arrives earlier they can hang onto it for a week or so.
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Well my dealer has informed me that instead of ordering my new car in December in order for it to arrive in time for a new 16 plate, it has already been ordered!
He has told me it will take about 8 weeks meaning that I will have to decide whether to get them to put it in storage until March or take it earlier than I wanted.
I could have done without these difficult decisions at my age!
It's s good job I didn't want to change the spec of the car in the meantime.
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It's s good job I didn't want to change the spec of the car in the meantime.
You still can, as long as you haven't got a confirmed build date you can change anything.
The tracker will tell you that.
https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners/track-my-order
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It's s good job I didn't want to change the spec of the car in the meantime.
You still can, as long as you haven't got a confirmed build date you can change anything.
The tracker will tell you that.
https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/owners/track-my-order
Thanks for the link and info. I don't appear to have a usable order number yet. The order no on my new vehicle order sheet only has 7 numbers as opposed to the eight that it should be.
Am I missing something ?
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Just ask them for the order number. That will be the number they use with VW to order your car.
The number you have is probably their own in-house number.