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hey all,

I bought a 2001 on an' X' plate, I bought it off a friend of mine back in October 2025, with intentions of getting it back to looking good again.

My friend is a boat builder/repairer, and it was a daily driver until he got himself a van, when it was just used at weekends. He used to have the workshop across the way from me, so I seen the car every day, and knew he'd looked after it.

He sold the car to his dad who used it as a daily again, which was great to see again. Unfortunately his dad became ill and died about 2yrs later, it was left on the driveway for a while looking very sorry for itself, so my friend had it back and used it again. He had the chain done, the clutch and DMF, and also the power steering rack, all BIG costly jobs.

Since ive had it, I've not really done much to it, until in my ultimate wisdom, decided to want to show it at Simply VW at Beaulieu  booked it in January for May 24th...

so...HERE WE ARE!

9days away, and still looking the same















I tried to rub the bumper down, as you can see its in a terrible way. Theres quite a bit of filler in there, so decided to get another rear bumper, I'll get that spray up with the next few days.

The wheels weren't in that bad a condition to be honest, so I was just going to tidy them up, remove any kerb rash, and spruce then up...then I was contemplating changing the colour








I was toying with black, copper/bronze or anthracite...

I decided on Anthracite








while it was up in the air, I took a look underneath and noticed a broken spring

 



MARVELLOUS!!

so, I think thats a good excuse to put some lowering springs on it 





I think while the wheels are off, im going to clean and paint the calipers too, thinking of going red.

I'll keep updating this when I can

Morning all, as above I've yet again returned to a Golf Gti, I cant see past them.

A quick update was I got the 8.5 Clubsport last April, great car, had it 6 months then sold for bigger car, M340i Touring.
That had issues, lasted a week and garage offered to take it back.
At this point had an op I'd been waiting on (hip replacement No 2) so no driving for 6 weeks.
Then bought a very nice 2019 7.5 Golf R with DCC, Pretorias. Liked the look of it, interior but just felt a bit old now and had a few rattles so gone after 6 weeks.

What do a get next?
I order yet another Golf Gti.
Have gone for basic Gti as its all I need. Was sorely tempted by Ed 50 but in my day to day use of the Clubsport I even found that I little bit firm and dont use the power enough to really need it.
The wife as says she wants it after me so another reason to stick was the 265 one.

So, Kings Red, DCC, Pan roof, Harman Kardon, 19 Queenstown, and 360 camera.
Managed to get a local dealer to match DtD discount so good saving as well.
Ordered start of April, built this week so not having to wait long either.

Anyway, happy to be back and enjoying catching up on all the stories on here.

Hi all, does anyone have or know the part number for the new AV steering wheel that they have started doing for the edition 50’s and golf R’s now? Trying to buy one but can’t find or get a part number to order one.

Hi there, I’m wondering if anyone has heard about any delays about current factory orders? I had a call from my lease company who ordered the car, they said the car I ordered isn’t looking likely to make estimated delivery by the end of June.

It’s a GTI Clubsport 300 in solid pure white with GTI Performance pack and the black 19’’ Estoril alloys, and the cloth soul black/tournado red seats.

We agreed the car with the lease company back in November, who said that the car had already been ordered at that stage.

Waiting to hear back from the lease company once they’ve asked the dealership what’s going on, was just curious as to if anyone knows or heard of any delays recently!

Quote from: MinchCS on 13 May 2026, 20:12

Quote from: Ooosh on 13 May 2026, 17:34

Quote from: MinchCS on 31 October 2024, 16:44

Someone has been using their CS as intended. 73,000 miles £25,750.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202410295724505?sort=relevance&advertising-location=at_cars&aggregatedTrim=GTI%20Clubsport%20S&make=Volkswagen&model=Golf&postcode=gl69bb&fromsra

Mines even higher mileage!

Good. Have done 400 miles in mine since yesterday

Thats good - but my commute is a 560 mile round trip! I recently drove to Berlin from Cornwall and back in 72 hours (2000 miles!).

Ouch!