Blue Graphite?

[Rolfe]

Rolfe, test drive the DSG if you can to see if it's for you, it is a lovely gearbox. If it was a no cost option then I might have had it but at the extra (significant) cost I think it's something I can do without but it makes the car luxurious to drive, very smooth, the hill hold control is also great on it.

Point taken on the ACC! The ride in 'comfort' on the 17" wheels should be a lovely ride for your mum.

I did test-drive the DSG!!!  That's what this is all about!  I had no thought in my mind of an automatic.  Then, vide supra, just before I left for the test drive a neighbour happened to mention an automatic gearbox as something that was worth considering.  I laughed it off, and thought no more about it.  Until I showed up at the dealer for the test drive, and the test car was a DSG.  I fumbled and hit the brake by mistake for the (nonexistent) clutch, but soon got the hang of it.  I still wasn't really thinking about it, though I did ask the price.

Well, sometimes I can be really slow on the uptake, and it wasn't till I was driving back in my 306 that the penny began, very very slowly, to drop.  I analysed my driving style, and it was lazy.  I move up to 6th as soon as I can and tend to stay there even when I should change down.  Half way through an overtaking manoeuvre is really no time to be fumbling with a gearstick, but it has happened.

Even still, it took a while.  I was playing around with different specs and figuring out how I was going to pay for it, and it was late evening before my subconscious came up and smacked me and said, you liked that automatic gearbox, didn't you?  So only then did I start reading up about what it was and how it worked.  I didn't really put it through its paces at the time, or even ask the dealer about it, but it definitely made an impression on me.

I think it's more worth the money than the leather seats, quite frankly.

You guys are all really great, and you're being a fantastic help making up my mind.

Rolfe.

[gossa]

I've only been on this forum a week or so mate and I don't know you from Adam, vice versa.  However it is easy to see why people think you are a c0ck.

Ah ok, so I'm supposed to take it when people have a little banter with me, yet when I have some harmless banter with people back I'm a c0ck for it ?. I see how it is now. People can give it out but not take it. Sorry but those kind are the w-ankers, not me.

Well I've been nothing but polite to you fella and you start calling me gay? Lecherous and homophobic, nice combo. I see that many people have had a pop at you on here though and i've only been on here a week so maybe you need to go and have a word with yourself in the corner and let the lady get on with her thread eh?

[VWKev]

I've only been on this forum a week or so mate and I don't know you from Adam, vice versa.  However it is easy to see why people think you are a c0ck.

Ah ok, so I'm supposed to take it when people have a little banter with me, yet when I have some harmless banter with people back I'm a c0ck for it ?. I see how it is now. People can give it out but not take it. Sorry but those kind are the w-ankers, not me.

Well I've been nothing but polite to you fella and you start calling me gay? Lecherous and homophobic, nice combo. I see that many people have had a pop at you on here though and i've only been on here a week so maybe you need to go and have a word with yourself in the corner and let the lady get on with her thread eh?

Oh listen, I've explained, so get a f**kin grip of yourself. I aint here to make f**kin friends and I couldnt give a sh!t if you're polite to me or not. Join my fan club or f**kin dry your eyes. It was a joke !

[Rolfe]

Good reply, at least you can take it with a bit of humour. 

Kev, sweetheart, I'm not impugning your manners, but maybe you're a wee bit dim?

I've said about four times that my mother is coming up 93.  Now actually, I'm not quite as old as you might imagine from that, because she wasn't exactly a child bride, but I'm definitely old enough to be flattered if the occasional wolf-whistle comes my way.

 

Rolfe.

[gossa]

I've only been on this forum a week or so mate and I don't know you from Adam, vice versa.  However it is easy to see why people think you are a c0ck.

Ah ok, so I'm supposed to take it when people have a little banter with me, yet when I have some harmless banter with people back I'm a c0ck for it ?. I see how it is now. People can give it out but not take it. Sorry but those kind are the w-ankers, not me.

Well I've been nothing but polite to you fella and you start calling me gay? Lecherous and homophobic, nice combo. I see that many people have had a pop at you on here though and i've only been on here a week so maybe you need to go and have a word with yourself in the corner and let the lady get on with her thread eh?

Oh listen, I've explained, so get a f**kin grip of yourself. I aint here to make f**kin friends and I couldnt give a sh!t if you're polite to me or not. Join my fan club or f**kin dry your eyes. It was a joke !

You really do need to calm yourself down there petal.  I am here to make friends and be polite and helpful to others so I suggest we steer clear of each other then. If you want to carry this on then I suggest you PM me so people don't get tired of your ranting.

[VWKev]

Good reply, at least you can take it with a bit of humour. 

Kev, sweetheart, I'm not impugning your manners, but maybe you're a wee bit dim?

I've said about four times that my mother is coming up 93.  Now actually, I'm not quite as old as you might imagine from that, because she wasn't exactly a child bride, but I'm definitely old enough to be flattered if the occasional wolf-whistle comes my way.

 

Rolfe.

Dim ? Not quite, being male is my downfall.  I find it cool that shall we say 'mature' woman ? Is driving a GTI. 

[Rolfe]

Rolfe if you get the car through a dealer far away the local guys will want your servicing business and will be obligated to do any warranty (which they get paid for).

Good luck with it all, exciting stuff eh!?

Oh and the cloth seats are a tad 'scratchey' on the arm rest and bolsters over the leather I had in the Scirocco but i'll get used to it and they won't end up sagging like a donkeys ar$e!

But they're not going to get my servicing business now, are they.    After what Andrew pulled with the Peugeot (that and the sheer convenience), he has it guaranteed.  Still, the dealers aren't going to know that.  Cut-and-dried warranty work is one thing, but what I'm worried about is the little niggle stuff.  The rattle, whatever.  If you have a relationship with the dealer, forged when you bought the thing, my feeling is that you're less likely to have a smokescreen thrown up when you pester them about that kind of thing.

And I mean, if you were prepping a car, and you knew it was going some distance away and you'd probably never see it again, would you be quite so careful than with the one belonging to the customer down the road who's likely to show up in a paddy if there's something not quite right?

Just a thought.

Look, I've had leather upholstery in the Peugeot for 11 1/2 years and it still looks great.  Are you telling me that VW do things worse?

Mind you, I don't weigh 20 stone....  

Rolfe.


Oh, get a room, you two.  Or give it up, I don't much care which.

[gossa]

Oh, we've kissed and made up.

The leather on the Scirocco was pretty nice but part leather and part vinyl and i'm led to believe the Golf is the same.  After time I think all leather shows it's age more than cloth and the bolsters are pretty big to get scuffed but it depends on your build and weight and I know better than to ask!!!

I doubt the guys that PDI the cars know where they are headed and the build quality seems rock solid. I think as long as your man uses VW approved parts for servicing your warranty should still be intact and dealers get paid for warranty so even a rattle could be a nice invoice for them to veedub.  Some dealers won't react to matching an internet deal so see what you can get by asking nicely first but get what you are comfortable with.

[VWKev]

Oh, we've kissed and made up.

The leather on the Scirocco was pretty nice but part leather and part vinyl and i'm led to believe the Golf is the same.  After time I think all leather shows it's age more than cloth and the bolsters are pretty big to get scuffed but it depends on your build and weight and I know better than to ask!!!

I doubt the guys that PDI the cars know where they are headed and the build quality seems rock solid. I think as long as your man uses VW approved parts for servicing your warranty should still be intact and dealers get paid for warranty so even a rattle could be a nice invoice for them to veedub.  Some dealers won't react to matching an internet deal so see what you can get by asking nicely first but get what you are comfortable with.

Slightly too wet for my liking but I can't complain.  :embarassed: 

[gossa]

Shhh or i'll tell them about the blowie Kev......and he called me gay!

Now come on Kev and Rolfe, get these flippin' cars ordered!!!