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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: FBF on 23 January 2006, 00:26

Title: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: FBF on 23 January 2006, 00:26

any reason for this other than the coupes (can i really call them coupes?) are more desirable?  does anyone have a vin decoder? any production numbers? why cant you drive a GTi slowly?  they always want to go go GO.....  why did they change the name of dime bars?  so many questions

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Mew on 23 January 2006, 00:33

Yeah mate!  :laugh:

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: FBF on 23 January 2006, 00:41

 :undecided:

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Brads MK2 GTI on 23 January 2006, 09:34

Well all 4 of my doors are present and correct :)

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Chugadub on 23 January 2006, 09:44

think the dime/daim thing is all the stupid new european sh1t, easier to say on the continent. or they may have just fancied a change...

tbh i dont care, still the same filling..! :drool:

 :smiley:

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: bulk66 on 23 January 2006, 12:06

Only reason i got a 4 door was because all the 2 doors i looked in my price range were rough as a badgers arse...... :grin:

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Organisys on 23 January 2006, 12:09

As above i bought a 5 door because it was in good condition, near me and at a fair price.

(http://www.organisys.com/VW/sigg.JPG)

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 23 January 2006, 12:10

4 doors are rarer as most enthusiasts prefer 3 doors as they look a bit nicer. Although sometimes finding a nice 3 door is hard, and finding a nice 4 door can be equally hard as they tend to be treated a bit rough as the 3 doors are "the ones" to have.

Can't drive a gti slowley because they are revvy engines, for instance the valvers don't come on cam till about 2.5k, 2.75k revs. and peak power outputs on them are at about 6.5k. So naturally we all want to feel that, kinda like a drug.

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: FBF on 23 January 2006, 12:34

ahh so there is a reason why it wants to go fast all the time.  doubt this would have any sway with the old bill though.so i assume 3 doors are worth a little more? and as you say like with all classic cars (not saying the mk2 is a classic yet) the 4 doors invariably get raped for parts and end up becoming rare yet undesirable. 

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 23 January 2006, 12:38

pretty much spot on with the thinking there. I think the only truely desirable 4 (5door) was the LTD Editions, in thier G60 valver incarnations. (unless you have a family in which case the 4 doors are a good compromise.)

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Brads MK2 GTI on 23 January 2006, 18:26

Well, I don't have a family, but the 4 door comes in as handy as hell for when I'm gigging with the band. It used to be sh!te with the 3 door driver I had, this is just a godsend, and anyways it's no slower than a 3 door!

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: silkyballs on 23 January 2006, 18:54

yep all my doors are present and correct aswell!!i love me four door makes life alot easyier when i go carp fishing loads of room i can get it all in trolley the lot!!nice!mine was in good nick untill she was hit and then i managed to loose four kiaks off my roof rack and shagged the bonnet!!good reason to get it painted!!hahaha

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 23 January 2006, 19:37

4 doors make the shell stiffer so there is a plus to having them :shocked:

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Mew on 23 January 2006, 19:48

Quote from: veedubgti16v on 23 January 2006, 19:37

4 doors make the shell stiffer so there is a plus to having them :shocked:

Really? I would have thought it would be the other way round? ie 3 door is stiffer

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: Organisys on 23 January 2006, 21:47

it's true. it's the door apertures that do it.

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: bulk66 on 23 January 2006, 22:27

Yea i got a little 5 month old boy and its a right ball ache getting in and out my Mrs BM coupe but she hates going in my golf. She says it shakes her bones and gives her a headache lol what a shandy drinker she used to have a pug 106 for god sake.... :grin:

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: steviem on 23 January 2006, 22:35

I prefer the look of 3 doors on any car, although wouldnt turn down an Alfa 156 or new Civic -  :shocked: sacrilege.
TBH, I originally got the golf as a stopgap for a 156, but from the fun i have when its going, theres gonna be some fun stuff done to my 8v...

Title: Re: noticing a lack of four doors
Post by: [han] on 24 January 2006, 08:42

i like my 5door... it just doesnt like me... i swapped a 3dr 106 for a 5door golf.. think i made a good choice personally!!!