Having a look at a mk5 GTI this weekend, need some advice!

[sambo]

Hi mk5 chaps.

Getting old (25) and starting to want a little more comfort in the car and a new engine to play with  .

So thinking of changing over to a mk5 soon and this car has popped up fairly close to me. Spec as follows:

2005 -05 reg

57,000 miles, 3 Door Hatchback, Black, Petrol, Manual 6 speed. Full leather interior, multi-function steering wheel, heated seats,auto wipers and mirrors. Auto xenon lights. Split rear seats with ski flap,18" monza alloys. Remote central locking, Front electric windows,heated Electric door mirrors, Centre Armrest, Adjustable steering wheel, Power assisted steering,Cruise control, Dual Control Air conditioning, Anti theft system, ABS, 4 new tyres, 12 mths MOT, 6 months tax, full VW service history, Good condition

What would you boy's (and girl's) guesstimate the price to be for a car of this spec?

Also any common faults to keep an eye out for, bushes need replacing around this mileage etc, coming fron a mk4 i'm used to thing's needing replacement 

Any other tips etc would be great, had a quick scour through the maintenance section but nothing jumped out at me 


Cheers, Sam

[neo66]

Good choice!!! Not sure on a price but incase you dont know, the 18inch monza's, MFSW, Xeon lights, centre armrest, and cruise control are optional extras so a good spec! Oh and probly the leather seats as its an early model.
Common faults, dash rattle from centre console (no biggy!), White worm on the alloys and VW badges.
Mines not that old so havent had many issues yet! but i'm sure you will get an idea on this forum.

[Ed30DSG]

I'd say around the £9k mark, depending on the actual condition of the car, including if any major service items are due i.e. tyres, brakes, cambelt, major service etc....

[sambo]

Whats the cambelt intervals on these? Wish it was £9k, price's seem to have gone up a little if anything recently.


It's got 4 new tyres as per ad, not sure on make. Seller is asking  £10,750 which is too much for that age I thought, would have considered for £10k as the spec is good and leathers, reckon it's still too much?

Cheers, Sam

[Trickyboy]

over 10k seems a bit steep for the mileage and age tbh mate. I picked up mine from the main vw stealers about 3 or 4 weeks ago, 56 plate 19k miles 3 dr, no toys, £12.5k, 1 year vw warranty. be patient, there are bargains out there if you're willing to wait!

[ub7rm]

Sadly enough I think around the 10k is probably about right (sadly cos I paid a fair chunk more a year ago).  Sounds like a great spec.

My advice would be to make sure the air con is working properly (from this forum it seems there are issues with this).  

Check that there isn't a grinding / squeeky noise from the steering at low speeds ( a low whir is OK as its an electric motor that provides the assistance rather than hydraulics).

Check that there isn't any water in the high level brake light / that all the LED's are working properly.  Replacing the high level brake light involves replacing/spraying the spoiler at a cost of £400...

Other than that my experiece to date is that there are a lot fewer niggly / annoying little faults than there was with the mk4 (touch wood touch wood) but then again they are only just starting to get to 'that age' when these faults come through.

Officially the cambelt is now due to be changed at 4 years (and yours is at the milage that it should be done anyway) so if thats not been done thats £500 (from a stealer) that can be haggled.

I came from a 1.8T myself and the difference is phenomenal.  You will fall in love  

[sambo]

Good info there cheers all.

Have been searching pistonheads/ebay/autotrader for a while now and i thought 10k seemed about right. The misses doesn't want DSG, i'm not keen on the interlagos trim and fancy a few more toys to what i have now (which was top spec in it's day!) so quite interested in the spec of the above car.

My mates a VW master tech so cambelt change etc won't be an issue, just an excuse to knock some cash off the price 

Only thing that let's the mk5 down is the half a job colour coding on the rear bumper IMO but that will be sorted out later. Just a shame most second hand examples about seem to be in black, red or silver. Ideally fancied a white or grey but there like hen's teeth!! 

Sam

[DanoGTI]

Doesn't sound too bad to me - looking at the VW site, (a) GTI's are becoming harder to find, which means (b)they're going up in price!!

Let us know how you get.


Dan

[No Golf Clubs at all]

 

Personally I think all gti (55) 2005 plates are worth much more than that, expect to pay £13k!!!! LOL  (one mans pathetic attempt to talk up the meerkat).

Sad state of the market that they've dropped so much in a year!

If I were selling I would be "hoping" for 11k, milly, fully loaded, 35k, all 4th year work done. In reality though if I took to the stealers I would be surprised to get £9k. So somewhere in between sounds right but your mileage is higher than average.  .....


 

[ub7rm]

Personally I think all gti (55) 2005 plates are worth much more than that, expect to pay £13k!!!! LOL  (one mans pathetic attempt to talk up the meerkat).

Thats it, good man. 

Due to the high price and the fact that under the skin its really no different to the mk5 I cant see the mk6 being bought as much as the mk5 was, so I actually think prices will level off and stay relatively high due the demand for good mk5's..(fingers crossed fingers crossed...)