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Offline Bandit127

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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #10 on: 13 May 2012, 19:51 »


so,I,ll fix him up and may God have mercy on my soul.

RALPH.

Good luck with it.

+1 to the others who have talked about the passion for the car. I was just looking for a runaround when I bought mine a couple of weeks ago. A £750 car that I could do the minimum to for 3 years and then weigh it in and start with another.

But this little RED GTi has me hooked. The list of things I want to do far outweighs the money I have at the moment but they are all things I would have been happy to live with in a runaround. Nothing major - engine mount, a couple of rust patches etc. I am even considering a set of new tires when the old ones still have a year to go (someone put 205 55s on the front and they are just WRONG).

So - if you have a passion for the car - how about a newer version? Assuming you could get £400 for yours and have the cash for the bits you were going to spend on it you could pick up a P or R reg bargain. Mine is R reg, unmolested, FSH, 90k on the clock and well looked after and cost me £750.

(I did say nothing major - but I fecked the clutch cable up today but that was my own stupid fault... A new manual adjustment cable will be going on tomorrow). 

« Last Edit: 13 May 2012, 19:53 by Bandit127 »

Offline GTIANNIVERSARY16V

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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #11 on: 13 May 2012, 20:17 »
I love spending money on my car, gunna get the original wheels....need another red seatbelt, original air box, red stripe...... then im gunna store it.
Hopefully get an R32...... or somethink mental, like a mk2 with a vr6 conversion already done....i love my Dubs.


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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #12 on: 13 May 2012, 20:18 »
They don't use the tagline 'just like a golf' for nothing you know.. :wink:, make sure you keep us updated on progress.

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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #13 on: 13 May 2012, 20:21 »
It never phases me...i always hear people saying things like "cars only worth 500, m.o.t is gunna cost 250" To me my car is priceless....not intended to make a profit etc, ive got it, because ive wanted it for years....i aint selling lol
If they say " you need an engine rebuild" i'd get it done, i had a brand new courtesy car a year ago.....had all the mods......i hated it, couldnt wait to get my anni back.

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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #14 on: 13 May 2012, 20:32 »
Better ti fix the problems you know you have with the car you got, than fix unknown problems with an unknown car your unsure to buy lol. lets face it every "cheaper" car has its problems.
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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #15 on: 13 May 2012, 21:10 »
if you dont fix it and decide to get rid, if hell is good might be interested





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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #16 on: 13 May 2012, 21:26 »
Keep it alive and try a breakers yards as i went to one near gatwick that had atleast 13 golfs with everything i needed
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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #17 on: 22 May 2012, 15:48 »
Well,got the brakes and rear wheel bearings done.
cost a bit to do the bearings coz they are press in and my chum needed the use of a press,which cost a bit...so he said.

i,d like confirmation on that,if anyone knows for sure.

anyway,no more lights flashing on the dash and he feels pretty good.
just about to roll over to 100,000 and I,ll do the rest of the work I feel needs doing during the rest of the summer.

Anyone fancy a good 8v.....think I,ll try a 16v next lol.

RALPH.

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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #18 on: 22 May 2012, 17:45 »
what sorta money you going to be asking for it??





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Re: My GTI needs money spending...but is it worth it???
« Reply #19 on: 22 May 2012, 18:40 »
I hate people that say things like that!! +1 to the comment above, just because you only paid 500 for a car, DOES NOT MEAN you shouldn't spend the money to keep them going!
If you've no interest in maintaining your vehicle, then you have no interest in vehicles whatsoever. If you've no interest in vehicles whatsoever, you've no business owning one or driving one!!
People that get things like their wiper blades fitted at halfords for them as well. Jesus. Our entire race/species came to be what it is through the creating and learning the use of tools, and how to do things with them.. And people can't be bothered to even learn to top up their oil and water.
Makes me angry.. lol.
If you can't use chopsticks or work out how to use them, you're not gonna throw away your forks and go buy a set of them are ya.. So if you can't use and work out your car to at least the extent of being able to know something is wrong with it, or that its time to inflate your tyres, get a service, add some coolant, don't frickin buy one.

The value of a car is NOT its material worth, but so much more. It's what gets you where you want to go when its too far to walk, and is a "tool" for transport and mobility. Car enthusiats go a bit further with their passion for their cars, but everyone should at least care about their cars. Makes me sad seeing good cars go to scrap all because someone didn't want to pay a small fee to fix it up. Whatever you paid for the car, unless its brand new it will need work on it. No one should be surprised at that, all mechanical things require maintenance, as unfortunately the romans killed all the unicorns centuries ago so we don't have things that run on magic and wishes these days lol