Are mk2 gtis selling well at the moment? Bort a mk2!!

[murraymint]

Yh I'm rekon in this on will be a high miler, and yh the tax n petrol is a b!tch. I'm only thinking about buyin it to sell on again, I'm not a fan of mk2s (sorry guys) I like the look of them but not driving them.

Unless your making over £500.00 from this car I wouldn't bother....

You could just be looking at a money pit to get it sorted or to a standard that will fetch £1K...

I bought a '88 GTI for £200.00 and then had to spend £800.00 getting it sorted.. Couldn't sell it for £1.2K so had no option but to break her to get my money back...

Learn't a lot from that car & never looked back... but it was an expensive learning curve and one I wouldn't do again..

Yh hopefully will make about £400/£600 depending on what it's like and how well it would sell on.

Its alright I feel the same about the G3 boats  
 

Each to there own  lol. 

[X4MGS]

No too many dogs for sale I hate when they post pictures of it in its glory three years ago, and when you turn up its a shed or dog!
Problem is all of them are hitting 150K onwards so unless its had a rebuild lets say 100K finding one without possible head issues is near slim.
Which is why it seems only die hard fans are rebuilding projects nut by nut, bolt by bolt.
In the MK2 section we seem to patch them up, but they seem to be sold on again as its too much for the younger lot to keep fixing them.?
Plus the added road tax increases and petrol prices who wants to do 25-30MPG daily?
Once mines finished I'll be lucky to do 3k road use just like my Rallye which was 23Mpg at half chatt.
Today I have about £700 worth of spares just to keep this old gal going for the next 10 years  
Even you are thinking about selling on makes my point?

Yh I'm rekon in this on will be a high miler, and yh the tax n petrol is a b!tch. I'm only thinking about buyin it to sell on again, I'm not a fan of mk2s (sorry guys) I like the look of them but not driving them.

Its alright I feel the same about the G3 boats  

Today I have about £700 worth of spares just to keep this old gal going for the next 10 years  
Even you are thinking about selling on makes my point?

Thats the flip side....

Like you I've spent THOUSANDS on my MK2 & I have no intention of selling it - even if I did I would never realize what I've spent on it...

So IMO the best MK2's are one that may already be owned by people who aren't interested in selling them...

That just leaves the TAT out there...

The issues I have is that some of that TAT has either bad body work or bad running gear with money they can be fixed!
In the day parts are cheap and easily obtainable, people spent thousands on paint I did my Rallye cost me 2.5K.
Today the costs and availabilty is tight and with what Ebay selling overpriced tat, has a lot of things contributing the downfall of the numbers off golfs blantly no.'s going down every year!
I dont mind people selling what they dont want, but when it comes to buying cars so you can strip and make some cash even weighing it in for scrap metal thats when I disagree with whats going on todate.
Ironic that over priced sheds if in reality the cars worth £300 more than likely it would be saved and a project would come about. But lets say they want £800 for it becuase its worth that in parts in there minds then it will get broken up. @ £300+1000 spent bring it back up total £1300 and you have a tidy MK2 its not bad all in all?
  
 

Problem you have is that there are so many parts are now NLA that you need X amount of cars to be broken so that you can finish your project...

I've been building mine as I go along and have had access to over 20 cars and I still haven't got all the "Basic" parts I want!!

[clipperjay]

Dont see it, VAG still sell most parts and so do GSF and Eurocarparts even Heritage.
IMO there are three owners
Buyers who want a GTI because its cool and sell it on once its broken.
Buyers who want to make money.
Buyers who have one golf and are ready to spend to make it nice and keep it nice.

TBH I don't care anymore, just like the environment.
If I was Democrat in a America I would be hard liner Republican by now! 

[murraymint]

Dont see it, VAG still sell most parts and so do GSF and Eurocarparts even Heritage.
IMO there are three owners
Buyers who want a GTI because its cool and sell it on once its broken.
Buyers who want to make money.
Buyers who have one golf and are ready to spend to make it nice and keep it nice.

TBH I don't care anymore, just like the environment.
If I was Democrat in a America I would be hard liner Republican by now! 

Im the last one of those three, but with my mk3, only thinking about making some pennies from this mk2 as it was offered to me cheap, think the current owner of the mk2 in question might be the first of those three

[X4MGS]

Dont see it, VAG still sell most parts and so do GSF and Eurocarparts even Heritage.

I Bet you 90% of a MK2 Bodywork & Fittings are now NLA....

And as you have found out with bumpers - Pattern parts just dont cut the mustard...

And where would you have gotten your Genuine bumper if someone hadn't broken that car??

[clipperjay]

Dont see it, VAG still sell most parts and so do GSF and Eurocarparts even Heritage.

I Bet you 90% of a MK2 Bodywork & Fittings are now NLA....

And as you have found out with bumpers - Pattern parts just dont cut the mustard...

And where would you have gotten your Genuine bumper if someone hadn't broken that car??

I think you missed my point there Ken I needed another bumper becuase I lost a bracket.
I saw one for sale so I bought it because its the right colour NOT becuase I bum VAG.
What I paid for the bumper was reasonable had to check with some fellow vagers on here to see if it was a fair price.
The gentlemen who sold me this said the MK2 was in a bad rear accident so I bought free range! (feel better why it was broken in the first place) 
Dont get me wrong I like the aftermarket one its super and plus brand new must have cost £200 If I found the bracket it would be on by now and TBF I will mock up the bracket as its actually better made plastic no mold lines etc. I'm practical if a part is better made I will use it.
As for body parts some can be welded and replaced with simular gaguge metal.
My Rallye had dodgy sills all of them do, can I can I buy new sills for a Rallye NO so I had the painter make them up and lead weld them in place?
   

[JC]

if its too good to be true, it normally is . 

not everyone can find £475 bargains 

but go for it, if nowt else you can break another G2 and raise the price of the remaining ones 

[murraymint]

if its too good to be true, it normally is . 

not everyone can find £475 bargains 

but go for it, if nowt else you can break another G2 and raise the price of the remaining ones 

I'm gunna go and have a look tomorrow, my mates rang the bloke selling it and he said it needs a new headlight and a front calliper.

[X4MGS]

if its too good to be true, it normally is . 

not everyone can find £475 bargains 

but go for it, if nowt else you can break another G2 and raise the price of the remaining ones 

I'm gunna go and have a look tomorrow, my mates rang the bloke selling it and he said it needs a new headlight and a front calliper.

Let the shopping list begin... 

[murraymint]

if its too good to be true, it normally is . 

not everyone can find £475 bargains 

but go for it, if nowt else you can break another G2 and raise the price of the remaining ones 

I'm gunna go and have a look tomorrow, my mates rang the bloke selling it and he said it needs a new headlight and a front calliper.

Let the shopping list begin... 

  gunna try and not spend too much onit!.......... il report back tomorrow night