Buying a GTI. Need some Advice.

[Grant-gti]

I went to volkswagen and asked about trade in price. They said £1500 lol. Stuck it on the net and 9 people are very interested at £4300. My brother was good enough to give me his 08' Audi s3 as a daily until I get my Golf. Gives me time to sell it now, nothing worse than seeing the car you love then trying to sell your car in a matter of days, too much stress haha.

[barrym381]

I went to volkswagen and asked about trade in price. They said £1500 lol. Stuck it on the net and 9 people are very interested at £4300. My brother was good enough to give me his 08' Audi s3 as a daily until I get my Golf. Gives me time to sell it now, nothing worse than seeing the car you love then trying to sell your car in a matter of days, too much stress haha.

must have been the 1 i saw on gumtree  thought you dont need a car anymore  an why not just buy your brothers s3 off him 

[Booth11]

There are also some slight differences in the DIS. With later cars you can use it to select DRL's, whereas with the early ones you had to do the indicator down, flash the lights thing.

Are you sure?  On my 62 plate, there is no option in any menu in the DIS to disable/alter the DRL's.  Handbook also states that they cannot be turned off.  Not sure if the indicator stalk method works as never tried it, but definately no option via DIS menus. That said, I have no intention of turning them off!

[Grant-gti]

I went to volkswagen and asked about trade in price. They said £1500 lol. Stuck it on the net and 9 people are very interested at £4300. My brother was good enough to give me his 08' Audi s3 as a daily until I get my Golf. Gives me time to sell it now, nothing worse than seeing the car you love then trying to sell your car in a matter of days, too much stress haha.

must have been the 1 i saw on gumtree  thought you dont need a car anymore  an why not just buy your brothers s3 off him 

i was going to just use the train to work, but once I got my first wages through turns out I'm getting more than I expected so thought it time to treat myself as I can finally afford a new car. I would but it's SHOCKING on fuel  and I think the mk6 in white really stands out and have amazing reviews.

[MBCGTI]

Grant, im selling my 09 plat Gti at the moment but can wait until Jan, give us a private message if your interested, within your budget and has xenons already.

[barrym381]

I went to volkswagen and asked about trade in price. They said £1500 lol. Stuck it on the net and 9 people are very interested at £4300. My brother was good enough to give me his 08' Audi s3 as a daily until I get my Golf. Gives me time to sell it now, nothing worse than seeing the car you love then trying to sell your car in a matter of days, too much stress haha.

must have been the 1 i saw on gumtree  thought you dont need a car anymore  an why not just buy your brothers s3 off him 

i was going to just use the train to work, but once I got my first wages through turns out I'm getting more than I expected so thought it time to treat myself as I can finally afford a new car. I would but it's SHOCKING on fuel  and I think the mk6 in white really stands out and have amazing reviews.

Can't see the mk6 gti being much better on fuel than the s3 

[Grant-gti]

Grant, im selling my 09 plat Gti at the moment but can wait until Jan, give us a private message if your interested, within your budget and has xenons already.

I would need to pass mate. Thanks anyways. Going though a dealer just to be able to get warranty and service plans etc. hopefully you find the right buyer soon.

[Grant-gti]

What kind of MPG are you lot getting. I do about 12 miles a day with some traffic. A little bit of stop/start stuff. The S3 has been mapped to 310hp and even driving like a granny and never going near boost it can get like 22Mpg at a push. I've read on parkers they can get upto 38?

[Eeef]

Realistically, you'll probably get around 30mpg. 40's can be achieved but require long motorway journeys and a feather like touch on the right pedal.

[Jimmgc51]

I get about 30MPG or around 300-350 miles per full tank.

I do give it some as well 

Regarding warranty you can add this to an old car, VW need to do an inspection on it them the warranty is placed back on the car. This just keeps your option open and the potential saving for going private would pay for it!