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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: 2007GTI on 29 July 2017, 09:36

Title: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: 2007GTI on 29 July 2017, 09:36: I've been looking for a secondhand GTI and saw this left hooker, madly expensive considering it is so damaged, and I am in no way interested, but I thought it odd it had a manual hand brake. I guess whatever country of origin it came from, that was how they specced it.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201707277776201?
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: hog_hedge on 29 July 2017, 09:40: Now that just looks weird and crap inside. Nice low miles and low price but I couldn't live with the dent in the driver's door.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: I wanted a GTi on 29 July 2017, 10:53: I reckon Rebecca could sort that out. :whistle:

Looks like an American import probably by one of their forces men in Germany and then registered here.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: Guzzle on 29 July 2017, 11:18: Looks like North American spec to me.

Manual handbrake, orange tinted repeaters, GTD wheels and no led taillights. Can't quite tell on my phone screen but look like no dual zone climate control either.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: JoeGTI on 29 July 2017, 11:45: Definitely USA spec.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: 2007GTI on 29 July 2017, 11:48: Surely its a total write off, as the roof is badly damaged!?

Surely it should be Cat C or even B, and recorded as such, seems like a gap in the system to me!
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: eatontrifles on 29 July 2017, 11:49: Yeah, North American spec. Speedo is in MPH which is a dead giveaway, don't think anyone other than us and NA market still uses MPH.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: Watts on 29 July 2017, 13:37: I love their comment "still starts and moves"! Also like the Nogaros on the GTI, wasted on mere oil-burners :wink: :whistle:
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: Exonian on 29 July 2017, 14:38: There are still thousands of US airmen and families stationed around the East of England mostly, they get to bring in US cars in shipping containers. Obviously this one wasn't worth taking back home...
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: david25 on 29 July 2017, 16:12: Serious attention needed to the C panel and roof!
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: itavaltalainen on 29 July 2017, 16:31: Will be bought by a Lithuanian company, repaired and offered for +XXX% on German websites.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: fredgroves on 30 July 2017, 15:48: Registration starts AE, which means it was registered in Peterborough.

Almost certainly a US Airman.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: hkp on 30 July 2017, 20:50: Yep, all the cars around Mildenhall and Lakenheath are registered on A plates and are flown over from the US. I see loads of them in Cambridge where I work.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: Matt17121991 on 31 July 2017, 13:21: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2015-64-VOLKWAGEN-GOLF-GTI-DSG-AUTO-5DR-Performance-Pack/182682136089?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Anyone have any ideas on where the above GTI have been registered originally? Also an import.... Got no response off the seller yet. Decent price if insurance didn't kill me on it being an import, but its been up for sale for some time, so puts me off.
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: Arnold_Lane on 31 July 2017, 13:26: Quote from: Matt17121991 on 31 July 2017, 13:21
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2015-64-VOLKWAGEN-GOLF-GTI-DSG-AUTO-5DR-Performance-Pack/182682136089?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Anyone have any ideas on where the above GTI have been registered originally? Also an import.... Got no response off the seller yet. Decent price if insurance didn't kill me on it being an import, but its been up for sale for some time, so puts me off.

YJ is Leeds.

You can check the regional identifiers here: https://www.newreg.co.uk/dvla-number-plate-identifiers/ (https://www.newreg.co.uk/dvla-number-plate-identifiers/)
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: Matt17121991 on 31 July 2017, 13:31: Quote from: Arnold_Lane on 31 July 2017, 13:26
Quote from: Matt17121991 on 31 July 2017, 13:21
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2015-64-VOLKWAGEN-GOLF-GTI-DSG-AUTO-5DR-Performance-Pack/182682136089?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

Anyone have any ideas on where the above GTI have been registered originally? Also an import.... Got no response off the seller yet. Decent price if insurance didn't kill me on it being an import, but its been up for sale for some time, so puts me off.

YJ is Leeds.

You can check the regional identifiers here: https://www.newreg.co.uk/dvla-number-plate-identifiers/ (https://www.newreg.co.uk/dvla-number-plate-identifiers/)

Thanks for the info.

I was after where the car originally came from as the advert says it has been imported, any clues on the lights/interior?
Title: Re: Foreign Spec GTI
Post by: fredgroves on 31 July 2017, 13:55: It says "UK import" and its right hand drive, that does kinda limit to where it might have come from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_left-hand_traffic

Cyprus maybe?