quick Golf related question

[X4MGS]

What about a cheap 1.6 Mk2 Driver... You can pick good ones up for under £500 if you keep watching Ebay... Use the rest to cover your insurance & buy a few GTI bits... (Rear screen, RA's, Interior) to make it look like a GTI....

Performance is still pretty good... I like to drive my lads one...

[fozziie]

a 1.6 is definately an option, all depends on how bad the drink driving conviction hits my insurance i guess, im not expecting it to be under 2 grand for a 1.6 anyway. my 1,8 mk3 was gonna be nearly a grand before i went crazy. lol. we shall see.

seriously dont want to have to drive around in a bloody clio

[Mitching]

1.6 golf drivers are group 9 insurance, 1.3's are group 7 and mk2 and mk3 polos are group 4.
Guess you'll have to wait and see when the time comes!

[fozziie]

well, i just ran a quote on elephant insurance, for a rough idea...had to change some dates etc etc to work my ban into it, but it came up saying id be 806 quid for a 1.6 mk2...and thats including my ban! wonder if that'll change? haha


im impressed with that

[MiniDan]

I used to have a 1.3 Mk2. Not my first car but my first Mk2.



It was a great car. Would never set the world alight as you can imagine, but once it was going it was quite nippy. Only reason I sold it was because where I worked at the time the entrance/exit was on a duel carrageway. If you ever wanted to get out of an evening you had to have a car that got upto 60mph quick!

I'd have one again though if it was just pootling around town.

[jamrock]

my first car was a 1.3 mk2 golf. brilliant car!!! it was a 4+E 90 spec. i had the 5 speed box. only problem was the pierburg carb, i replaced it with a twin choke webber happy days!!!

[Wayne]

Go for a 1.3 or a Polo

[tobz.]

I've had 2 1.3 mk2's in my time and to be honest they're not that bad.
The first thing you definately want to do though is source a weber carb, it really does make a huge difference. I fitted one on my last 1.3 and despite having 200k on the clock it used to pull pretty well and used to easily reach an indicated 100mph on my private airfield. It still had a little bit left even at that speed but with the mileage I didn't want to push my luck.
Oh another bonus is it will idle perfectly from cold and start easily on even the frostiest of mornings.

[Mk2Kezza]

I used to have a Mk2 Jetta 1.3 4 speed and I loved it. Had her for 7 years and she never missed a beat. The Pierberg carb can be a nightmare if you tamper with it as they can be temperamental. If set up correctly they run really well. Did loads of motorway miles too and at about 60 mph she returned about 40 mpg.
I'd recommend a 1.3 and i'm sure the golf will be marginally nippier, less the big boot!

[fozziie]

definately gonna be in the hunt for another golf come august, probably a 1.6 but we shall see, as the difference in the insurance price between 1.3 and 1.6 is only about 50 quid. haha. Another mk3 if the worst comes to the worst, but preferably an mk2