« Reply #29 on: 30 January 2016, 14:08 »
After I moved house and eventually got the garage cleared enough to park the car in it I realised that my GTI only had about 1.5 cm either side of the mirrors to fit through the aperture. Best pleased I was not.
I did look at the revised 1.8TSI GTI Polo as a possible solution by speccing one with folding mirrors, and it being a bit narrower than a Golf on paper it did make a good case for itself but, as Steve says, by the time you've added a few extras the price starts shooting up and it's never going to hold the value of added options that would make it as dear on the second hand market as a Golf.
Anyway, I've now mastered reversing into my garage in a Golf with the mirrors not folded in even at 4am - it helps having non painted mirrors that can take a gentle kiss from a garage door surround without getting marked on the odd occasion I misjudge my 1.5cm!
Thankfully having the shorter doors of a five door now rather than the much sexier 3 door GTI I can also get out of the door without my back making a lot of strange and unnatural sounding noises. I was never much of a gymnast when I was six never mind forty six and rapidly counting!!
I'm not really adventurous enough to buy a Fiat 500 Abarth but they do look cool.
Logged
‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten
