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

[murraymint]

As above are people shifting these at the minute? I only ask as I've been offered one very cheap and was thinkin about giving it a good service and tidy up n then shifting it on (pricing it to sell, not deaming Of 4k price tags lol)

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[Gambit]

a decent mk2 with a decent price will always sell. the ones that dont sell are those that are stupidly overpriced for the condition they are in

[X4MGS]

You are maybe asking in the wrong place as most in here already have cars and aren't looking for another one...  

I would say that a Good MK2 with all the right stuff on it should sell well - but if it's all tarted up/messed about with I guess you would have to take what someone was offering...

Also depends on what you call cheap - other question would be - why is it so cheap??

[murraymint]

a decent mk2 with a decent price will always sell. the ones that dont sell are those that are stupidly overpriced for the condition they are in

Good to hear then. So a tidy gti with long mot for under a grand will sell fairly easy then?

[murraymint]

You are maybe asking in the wrong place as most in here already have cars and aren't looking for another one...  

I would say that a Good MK2 with all the right stuff on it should sell well - but if it's all tarted up/messed about with I guess you would have to take what someone was offering...

Also depends on what you call cheap - other question would be - why is it so cheap??

Haha good point. I'm gunna have a look at it tomorrow, think it might be lowered with some alloys onit, if it's a dog or been kev'd up il walk away. But it does have mot onit untill December so can't be to bad.

Well won't say how much the asking price is incase of future sale but its not stupid cheap like £50

[clipperjay]

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?

[murraymint]

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.

[X4MGS]

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...

[X4MGS]

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..

[clipperjay]

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?