Ok, thought I would start this thread and get some feedback on the old girl. I'll start with my car history, and how I came about getting this one first. (skip this if you don't really care!!) passed my test at the ripe old age of 25, thought it was about time as I had just knocked the missus up, so a car would become essential. My first car was a mk2 astra duo 1.6. Piece of crap but it did the job! 6 months later, it failed the Mot and would have cost more to get it through than the car was worth, and had no attachment so off it went! Next up was an 03 Saab 9-3 vector sport. Quite possibly my Favourite car! (sorry if I'm swearing at u all there) but I loved that car! Anyway, that lasted 9 months, thn fell on hard times and couldn't afford the average 18 mpg I was getting so off she went too! By this time, my missus was learning to drive and she twisted my arm into getting a pug 307. If anyone has ever thought about getting one, don't!!! I absolutely despised that car, absolute piece of french sh!te!!! Couldn't deal with it for long, so that lasted about 4 months. Next up was a very good one. A mk5 gttdi. Again a very good car, and lasted the longest of all with 18 months in my ownership. By this time the missus had passed her test, and the daughter was 2 and going to play school, so really needed 2 cars. So off she went for the exact same price I got her for, bearing in mind I bought trade, and sold private so result! Got the missus a corsa, and got me sen a focus. Glad I didn't share the golf though, as less than 2 weeks later, the missus smashed up her corsa! She was only tpft so it was the first time I had ever done any work on a car. A grand later she was back on the road, and I was already getting fed up with a crap ford! All of 6 months after getting it, that went to my sister. Got myself a 50cc scoot for work, wop wop!! And this was my project for a short while. Anyway, needed a car tbh, so trawling through eBay, I spotted this mk3 gti 8v in dragon green. 148k on the clock and a little rust under drivers side rear quarter window, but fsh every 10k, lowered on coillies, m3 style rear lights, and scorpion twin 2.5" cat back, and I Liked the look of it! The starting bid was 300 notes, No tax or test, but I thought if it needed too much work to get it through, I would just break it. 6 months before this, it had been fitted with the zaust that cost the guy 300 quid, so most of it would be made back by that alone. No bidders with a minute to go, so I bid and won. Yay! Collected the car and was told it needed a new coil pack. No biggie though, 7 quid for a genuine new vag one off fleabay was had and fitted. Misfire and hard jerking continued, so a bit of contact cleaner on the maf and a clean of the tb and all sorted. (joined the forum then, so thanks to all for help getting a few other little things sorted!) Put through for Mot, needed a bush and bit of welding to jack mount, parted with 120 quid for that and taxed it and on the road! Started to fall in love a bit by now and was constantly on here so long may the work continue. On a tight budget at the mo as getting married soon but mostly just wanna do aesthetic type stuff. List of things that have been done, and things I wanna do will be here shortly, and some before and after pics when I get home. At work at the mo on the iPhone (get paid for what I know not what I do is my argument!) lol. Sorry for massive rant, end of now!
