Bye bye GTI

[carl1]

if you have the mind set that your car is a set monthly expense then leasing is a way to go.  If I had bought my gti new with all the options it would have cost circa £26k some 3 years 4 months later I get offerred £9.5k for it !! factor that into the monthly cost and you soon get an appreciation of the futility of new car ownership. Another £412 per month btw!! Leasing just allows you to pay that depreciation and walk away at the end to get a new shiney fresh one and start again, without having the hassle of owning a big ageing lump of hard to shift metal....

Having said all that, last car I leased I got buggered for end of lease costs so be wary ....audi wanted about £1k for two scuffed alloys and a trolley ding!

to be fair you should know that when you buy a new car you dont get that much for your options when you come to sell,so you have got to be prepared to totaly forget about getting much money back for the options. So therefore  9.5k for a car that is 3 and  a quarter years old that cost £19995 new basic is not that bad at all, esspecially in these times.
I know its hard to take when you get insulted with a px price but you should know this when you buy the car in the first place. its all part and parcell of buying a brand new car

[No Golf Clubs at all]

I do, absolutely. Just making the point about depreciation being a monthly "cost" we often forget about.  Life is to short to live without toys  I have tried poverty spec cars and groaned everytime I drove them.

[carl1]

i try and look at it like this. if a car costs me £5200 a year in depreciation i aint done to bad, i could hire a focus or astra for £100 pound a week, but then i would be driving a focus or astra. but no im driving a decent car in the gti/r32  thats how i get round depreciation mentally anyway 

[Edition30]

Looks like im going to keep it after all this...it is a fantastic car, puts a smile on my face when people check it out and hear it go and I really need to get my arse in gear and get a full time job which will help out a great deal.

Someone offered me £15,500 without seeing it, no doubt they will try knock me down even more if they did come to view it. I spoke to someone from VW finance and she said I could sell it then settle the remaining balance and another option I was thinking about is to get a personal loan and pay it off say over an extra year and reduce my payments that way. Depending on what happens with my speeding offence and with a job will make a choice for me about keeping the car.

If only my sister hadnt bought a new car I wouldnt have gone searching myself 

I always said I would never buy a brand new car and here I am. Cant give it back until I have had it 50% of the contract either.

I also need to stop running all my mates around and random cruising when im bored this will reduce the wear of tires and my fuel costs a great deal.

Another quick question - I had a new engine after 4000 miles so would you get the car serviced when it hits 10,000 or wait till 14,000??

[Hurdy]

I'd still service to time as it is only the engine that is new and they give the WHOLE car a service

[Tony D]

Another quick question - I had a new engine after 4000 miles so would you get the car serviced when it hits 10,000 or wait till 14,000??

You a new engine on an '08 car with 4000 miles on it?!?! WTF?  Did they forget to put oil in it or something when they did the PDI?

[No Golf Clubs at all]

  

[Edition30]

Another quick question - I had a new engine after 4000 miles so would you get the car serviced when it hits 10,000 or wait till 14,000??

You a new engine on an '08 car with 4000 miles on it?!?! WTF?  Did they forget to put oil in it or something when they did the PDI?

Cracked block 'factory deffect'

[No Golf Clubs at all]

i.e. dropped at some point off of the hoist and onto the factory floor......jusst steeek it in die auto hans...thee steeering veeel is on die rechts, der stomperderlanders vill never notice......

[Edition30]

i.e. dropped at some point off of the hoist and onto the factory floor......jusst steeek it in die auto hans...thee steeering veeel is on die rechts, der stomperderlanders vill never notice......

  Something along those lines yeah. Had a fair few rental cars to play with, a 1.2 polo, 2.0 Jetta and a 1.6 Golf Plus