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Offline the dude

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Officially part of the MK5 club.
« on: 29 May 2009, 21:45 »
Hey all,
well after deciding the work needed on my MK3GTI would be too expensive I sold it on to a nice chap off this board on Monday,
Started hunting for the MK5 I have wanted for quite some time, found one on autotrader about 60 miles away, looked nice, but owner would not knock a penny off the price, so left, then after looking at some well dodgy private ones, called them up, and made him an offer, £300 less than asking price and 6 months tax thrown in too...tidy.
Tesco said my loan should be with me by the Thursday, well Thursday came and went, and it was only when I checked the papers I realised they had put a wrong digit in the sort code, phoned them and they said it should be in by close of business today, meaning I could not pick it up til off work next Tuesday.
Well, at 4pm, the funds got in, so at 4.15 we were in the wifes car in rush hour traffic trying to get to the garage before it shut at 6pm, It was close, but:
Out with the old,

In with the new,


One with the wifes trusty VW

And the funniest car reg location iv seen on a reg plate


These pics were a bit rushed as only got home about 8pm, the cars nothing really special, 5 door, armrest, heated seats, and LOADS of other stuff which I have no idea how it works, but its mine, and its loved now. so a few basic mods, wheel refurb, coloured skirts to come, and it will be the bizness.

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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #1 on: 29 May 2009, 21:57 »
Nice one and welcome to the Mk5 club.   :smiley:
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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #2 on: 29 May 2009, 22:16 »
Well Done!
Got mine today too :)


Dan


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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #3 on: 29 May 2009, 22:21 »
seems a lot of us are getting MK5's, making the most of the stale market possibly, or just watching as others talk about their golfs is just too much,
Also realised the ace pic of the bug attack on my numberplate, there were a few explosions on the windscreen, (from tehm, not me  :evil: )

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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #4 on: 30 May 2009, 02:03 »
Ah yes Titty Ho, I used to work for a motor factor and they'd ring up and start the converstion with "Hello, Titty Ho!"  I'd have to put the phone on hold and recompose myself!

Nice motor, any plans for it?
Tom
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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #5 on: 30 May 2009, 09:14 »
For how everything works have a look here:-

http://uk-mkivs.net/forums/t/5475.aspx?PageIndex=1
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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #6 on: 31 May 2009, 20:48 »
Welcome to the club

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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #7 on: 01 June 2009, 10:14 »
Ah yes Titty Ho, I used to work for a motor factor and they'd ring up and start the converstion with "Hello, Titty Ho!"  I'd have to put the phone on hold and recompose myself!

Nice motor, any plans for it?
nothing much really,
Plan on getting the alloys refurbed and get the black on the inlays, (even though they are only the 17's)
Lower it a bit, new exhaust and colour code all the cheap black plastic,
any other suggestions?

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Re: Officially part of the MK5 club.
« Reply #8 on: 02 June 2009, 15:35 »
what did you sell the valver for out of interest???  looks immaculate in the pic...

Welcome to the 5 club though mate...i'd say a rechip as i'm already used to the power and need a little more lift...and a milltek exhsaut would be good too...

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« Reply #9 on: 03 June 2009, 12:01 »
think I will be going for the millitek, and also heard that to respray the skirts and bumper should only be about £180, quids in.
The old GTI sold for about £800, took it for its service last month and it was worse than I thought it would be, the guy there said old VW's are rusted to hell but underneath are sound, or look ace and then need a bit of work underneath, mine was the latter,
Cleaned every sunday, and waxed regularly too, loved it, and always got comments on how nice it looked, but with possible family starting wanted something safer too.