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Offline Andy-H

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #30 on: 29 August 2011, 14:40 »
The rado now sits on the drive, lonely and waiting for a loving owner  :cry:
'95 Mystic blue Mk3 2.0l 8v - gone
'93 2.0l 16v Corrado - gone (and missed)
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'91 Tornado red Mk2

Offline dodge_vdub

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #31 on: 29 August 2011, 19:47 »
Mine gets driven daily, and up until recently did 300 miles a week.
Not bad for a car with 176,000 on the clock....
oh and just brought her back from a 2 week 2150 mile round trip round germany  :grin:
"Lets break out the shotguns, we're going too town!!"

Offline robiwill

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #32 on: 29 August 2011, 21:11 »
MK2 valver lives in the workshop and hasnt moved since its mot in April,

Mk3 cabriolet clocks up between 300 to 500 miles a week never gets cleaned is a mobile office, dinning room, complete with car collection kit, tow rope jump pack, fuel diesel and petrol and tool kit. always gets serviced and mechanically wants for nothing. comming up to 175 thousand miles.

Offline Bellend

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #33 on: 30 August 2011, 00:40 »
Gets used n abused all the time. Serviced all the time. Only let me down when the throttle cable snapped.

Currently stuck over the bank holiday weekend cause was sticking a GTI brake set up on but have cracked the sump. So had to go camping with a 1l Fiesta and I still prefer the Golf.

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Offline rob.043

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #34 on: 30 August 2011, 11:09 »
My mk2 lives in a garage, it gets driven briskly on back roads for fun on most weekends when its not in bits as a 'rolling project'. It may be spared winter duties of weekly trips to edinburgh in I find the right impreza, fancy a go in one for a few months I think....

Offline DanChave

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #35 on: 30 August 2011, 11:27 »
Gets used and abused, day in, day out! when it breaks it gets fixed and is always in and out of the paintshop as I can't stop painting stuff on it! Should be a daily hack that's left alone but I'm an addict and I can't lol!

Offline Mr_Orange

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #36 on: 30 August 2011, 21:29 »
A happy one I think........
Used daily for the commute, approx 100 miles per week.  Random 400 mile ish round trips at least once a month to family and friends. 
No expense spared on servicing and staying ahead of the game with maintenance.  The receipt folder is about to burst (not all of it boring servicing mind you!).
Lives out in the cold and rain but gets washed by me once a week, polished/waxed and hoovered out at least once a month.


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Offline lewis1641

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #37 on: 31 August 2011, 10:29 »
mine has done 216k. lives on the drive. i work less than a mile away from home so dont commute but it gets used regularly. probably not daily as i dont necessarily drive daily but i have no qualms ablut jumping in and driving anywhere, rain or shine.

come winter time the wheels get swapped for g60 steelies with winter tyres though

Offline SoundillusioN

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #38 on: 31 August 2011, 16:34 »
Mine got it's face smashed in 7 years ago and was locked away for a very long sleep


Gave it a face transplant this year and has had quite a bit of TLC since. (not enough though).  I treat it with the up most respect as much as I can.  Limited to 3k a year and it's nearly done that since March.  Car is officially SORN from today.  :sad:


 

Offline jmsheahan

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Re: What sort of life does your Golf live?
« Reply #39 on: 31 August 2011, 16:47 »
Mine's a daily drive but lives a pampered life really! Doesn't cover many miles at the moment but was doing 400 odd a week at one point last year. Lives in a garage overnight, washed every week and abused at weekends. Gets genuine parts where possible, every job is done to the best of my ability and it's serviced twice a year.

Takes a lot of my free time and pretty much all of my free money. I shudder a little if I think about what I've spent! It's a little bit of an obsession and I get grumpy if I can't spanner for a few weeks :undecided:. The 'sensible daily' has become more of a weekend toy. Will be getting tucked up at the parents house if my move to London for work goes ahead though which will suck.



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