Golf Ownership - Pleasure or Pain???

[Mr Blue]

should have given me 3k for mine instead 

[vaughn]

i bought my mk2 16v 18 months ago so far i`ve had to change a ball joint and tighten a wheel bearing it`s flown through 2 mots gave it a full service last year, the parts cost £51 that included oil+filter ,plugs,air filter,rotor arm,dizzy cap + feul filter, its got 193,000 miles on it and runs like a dream, you allways get good ones and bad ones whatever you pay for them, its just that there`s more better ones than bad ones with vw`s. stick with it mate, you`ll allways regret selling it

[E405]

Don't know if anyone else has this but mine hates being off the road - if were using my wifes GTi for more than a couple of days, mine sulks and breaks - I swear its scary! a couple of months ago it decided to refuse to run and start properly anfter a week off the road  (fixed with new plugs!) then the other month it had a three day break and the oil seal blew on me on ther oil cooler (0655 on a dark morning) on route to work lucky cost little and no damage done - I thinks haunted or somethng!

seriously though I think they're painless to own if you can nip things in the bud, and for theyre age a good MK2 is really relable

[Whysub]

I have bought a 1.6 dirt cheap, and it is immaculate, and despite the high mileage, runs brilliantly, despite me driving it really hard. I have always had a soft spot for Golfs, even though the LHD 1976 Mk1 I had in the early 80's rusted away before my very eyes.
 
I decided a few years ago to buy carefully-the best car I could get for the lowest price possible. And if they break, repair them or scrap them. I would rather do this that watch a newer car sit on my drive hemmoraging money away in depreciation.

But all cars will break at one time or another ( My works A3 has just knackered it's suspension at 27,000 miles), but Golf's are cheap to fix (in comparison to the Saab I ran for a couple of years).

[888v]

very pleasurable but money is the problem with owning any car especially an older one. but i find that i know where i am with a vw. disheartening at times but i still love it! 

[Paulie1.8]

My 1.8 J plate Driver cost me £750 right at the end of 2004. Had 125k on it when I got it, now on 129k.

The alternator went in five days, then the battery.

Got the CV gaitors changed a few weeks ago, and the mechanic told me when I came to pick it up that it needs a new lower arm (?....lost me now), so it's getting one of those.

It still needs two new rear shocks, two new headlamps (needed spotlamps too but have changed them already), new plugs and leads, the handbrake sorting (it's really rubbish), and various other things that my mechanic told me about that went straight over my head.

I love driving the car, it's great fun, but I'm worrying about it constantly, and am nearly on first name terms with my local RAC guy. 

[gstar-dubworld]

Interesting topic, our car cam from Volkswizard too, again the same sum of money was parted with, we spent nearly 3 months and 3 thousand miles before purchasing the car that we did for top money.

The car has been an absolute pleasure to be with and drive, very simple and yet though very effective and very addictive, I have mcome to this scene after a long line of high performance Japanese cars, the last of which we still own as another toy but between the two only my GTi get used everyday and everywhere.

The total bill for the GTi is at 7k approx since we bought it, but we had an objective in mind and that was to produce a daily driver and a demo for our workshop, I haven't or don't be-grudge it one bit, it's a hobby become business but I enjoy my hobby and my job, therefore it's a total pleasure broken of fixed.

Keep with it and keep them on the road and alive, doesn't matter how old or new a car is they all have bad and good habits, at the end of the day they can all be a nightmare but don't dispare because they can all also be a dream..   

[Ant]

My valver's got a list of problems longer than an A4 sheet of paper, and the money's just going to keep on rocketing.

But I drove it on Saturday on a 200 mile round trip down the motorway, it just keeps on giving me the biggest smile.

Gonna be worth every penny.

[Dannyd]

true

[Deefadog]

I always go throgh this debate every couple of months, I own my golf outright, but you do spend a bit on them every month, if they need to or no compare that with a new car, trouble free, but then you have the monthly payment to contend with!

At the moment i am loving my golf a few times i thought of selling her and getting a 1.2 clio (cheap as chips in all departments) trouble free but boaring!

It's the fact that the golf is my only car so i need it for work, so it eats alot of my weekends