Buying a GTI. Need some Advice.

[Booth11]

Also get 30mpg average, and normally 320 miles per tank.  That's with lots of daily town driving (stop/start heavy traffic), fair bit of rural driving and a bit of motorway.  And not driven with economy in mind.

[Snooze]

30 mpg 300 miles per tank on average. Goes up a bit on longer journeys obviously

[dubber36]

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!

I was sure I'd read somewhere that you could. You can on other VAG cars of that age. On my Passat, it's in the lighting section of the vehicle set up menu.

[Booth11]

I was sure I'd read somewhere that you could. You can on other VAG cars of that age. On my Passat, it's in the lighting section of the vehicle set up menu.

That was the first place I looked, but nothing.  Not in any other section either.  Too much to expect consistency across the VAG range!

[Grant-gti]

Roughly 310 miles per tank sounds good. My current S3 does about 380 miles per tank and that's got a capacity of 62l. So my wallet should notice that lol.

[Poached]

The NEDC Combined figure for this vehicle is achievable (38.3 Mpg).

Based on your figures for the 8L S3, your averaging around 27 Mpg. The extra tank capacity makes it look better than it actually is because of the 62l tank compared with the c.55l tank in the Golf.

[AaronMc]

Mines for sale too. £13500, with pretty much every optional extra except leather and sunroof.

Has Xenons, Parking Sensors Front And Rear, Adaptive Chassis Control, Cruise Control, RNS 510 Nav, Dynaudio Speakers, Heated Seats, Bluetooth etc..

Tornado Red with Cloth..

Understand your thoughts regarding warranty, but as said you can add it on after VW inspect it.

Check out the classified on here, its on there