buying advice needed GTI mk7 PP - urgent

[fredgroves]

If its the one I'm looking at on AutoTrader (and it is, just seen your link on the other thread), the leather looks pretty tired, even compared to other similar ones with leather.

Seems like 3 years and ~60k does make these things as saggy as Winston Churchill's face.

[I wanted a GTi]

Photo 18 and 19 are the same photo and there is a mark on the wheel. Also if you look at valve on the wheel I think there is paint lifting around it which could suggest it has been refurbished.

Seems expensive for what it is. If your dead set on it I could go and have a look at it for you as it's only 50 or so miles away from me.

[candywhite12]

Photo 18 and 19 are the same photo and there is a mark on the wheel. Also if you look at valve on the wheel I think there is paint lifting around it which could suggest it has been refurbished.

Seems expensive for what it is. If your dead set on it I could go and have a look at it for you as it's only 50 or so miles away from me.

for now i just collect everyone's input so that i can ask the seller - thanks for offering though, i'll keep you in mind if i decide to get this

[SRGTD]

@candywhite12; it’s missing the standard carpet mats. Also, the description in the Autotrader ad. says it’s got the optional 19” Santiago alloys but they’re the standard 18” Austin’s.

[candywhite12]

@candywhite12; it’s missing the standard carpet mats. Also, the description in the Autotrader ad. says it’s got the optional 19” Santiago alloys but they’re the standard 18” Austin’s.

thanks, appreciate it

[fredgroves]

I can see its definitely got DynAudio (front speakers visible), Nav (shark fin on the roof) but not sure about park assist - don't think i can see the button?

Winter pack, maybe, leather comes with heated seats, hard to say if the windscreen washers are heated without looking real hard (thats all it adds when you've got leather already)

Advanced telephone prep you'd only be able to see if you looked in the arm rest.

[I wanted a GTi]

I can see its definitely got DynAudio (front speakers visible), Nav (shark fin on the roof) but not sure about park assist - don't think i can see the button?

Winter pack, maybe, leather comes with heated seats, hard to say if the windscreen washers are heated without looking real hard (thats all it adds when you've got leather already)

Advanced telephone prep you'd only be able to see if you looked in the arm rest.

If it had park assist it would have an extra sensor on each wheel arch so it doesn't have it.

[fredgroves]

Good spot! I hadn't thought of that!

[Gnasher]

There just seem to be a few things that don't add up. There looks to be stuff mentioned on the advert that it doesn't have (IE, nav when it's got a non-nav head unit, park assist where it's not fitted).

The leather does look a bit tired and it looks tired on all seats, even at the top of the drivers seat (which seems weird)

General Altimax tyres aren't actually bad tyres, they're just not a massively well known brand. I'd call them mid range tyres rather than premium ones.

Condition is something that only an enthusiast would have the same standards as I guess you have, however (maybe) an enthusiast wouldn't pick up on some stuff that a (for instance) AA/RAC inspection would.

I don't envy you - admittedly I bought mine sight unseen from the UK while I was in Cyprus, but at least mine was new and I could transfer the new car warranty. It would definitely be worth looking into a Europe wide warranty, even if you have to pay for it yourself.