Dai's car has less miles, remap, Forge parts, leather interior (which the OP would like), lowered, wheels etc and is the same year 
Anyhoo I guess it gives the OP a chance to put his own stamp on it 
Having spent the last 2 weeks looking a quite at few Golfs I am more than happy at paying £1900 for this 2001 golf , its got 120,000 miles with FULL vw service history, engine rebuild 6000 miles ago done by vw, new turbo fitted, every mot certificate its ever had, every receipt for any work done on it even down to bulbs..........and its been remapped.......
Having seen some of the crap on offer I am happy to have a few hundred quids worth of body work done......... I would have paid the £2400 asking price for it, I think I only got it at the price because I stuck £20 notes under his nose and its so near Christmas......and made a big deal of the spray job on the rear pillar that isn't actually that bad when you see it in the flesh.....
hate to say it but that doesn't look like much of a bargain when you look at what needs doing in terms of bodywork
Yes this smacks of bias but for £300 more you could have had this
http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=132138.0
Unless 5 doors was a priority 
Without wanting to sound or be rude the only thing I did like about it was the leather interior........I have to teenage children who use me like a taxi with their mates and the last thing I want to be doing is getting in and out of the car pulling the seat forward letting people in and out, I also dislike red cars with a passion and I don`t like tinted windows........so to be brutally honest I would not have bought it even if it had been £300 cheaper.....
