Golf R's - Used Market - Did someone lose the optional extras list?

[infernox]

I'm asking as a potential buyer in the used market. Just an example I've seen, bog standard 15 plate DSG Golf R in Black with 28k miles sells for around £22k at a car dealership. There's another 15 plate DSG Golf R in Black with 28k miles but its for £25k and the advert says it has 'every optional extra', do you think that's worth £3k extra? For £25k you could get a bog standard 15 plate one with under 10k miles.

[fredgroves]

There are probably about what, £9k of extras if you added them all? It probably hasn't got them all anyway.

If it did have them all, is it really £3k of residual value? I wouldn't pay that I think.

[brettblade]

I'd take an older, better specced car compared to a newer base/lower spec.  I don't really care what the plate says, the age of the car doesn't affect the driver's enjoyment of it.

[infernox]

Well I saw the pictures and its got the two tone heated leather seats, tech pack (nav pro and Dynaudio), pan roof and looks like privacy glass tinted windows. Funnily enough it doesn't have 19" Prets so can't be every extra. Is there anyway to find out if its MY16 or not? I know MY16 got the MIB 2 units which I've heard is better.

[lemski]

Well I saw the pictures and its got the two tone heated leather seats, tech pack (nav pro and Dynaudio), pan roof and looks like privacy glass tinted windows. Funnily enough it doesn't have 19" Prets so can't be every extra. Is there anyway to find out if its MY16 or not? I know MY16 got the MIB 2 units which I've heard is better.

Pan roof and 19s cant come together because of the tax bracket it would put it into.

[fredgroves]

MIB2 has a bigger screen... and maybe if you fiddle with it, app-connect  -but you can't see that without power.

Build week 22 in 2015 onwards apparently is MIB2.

Leather was £2615 list, Tech Pack was £1295, Pano roof £995, Rear 90% tints was £95 so about £5k of extras.

Could be other things that you can't see - DCC, lane asist, climate windscreen, high beam assist, rear view camera, advanced telephone, carbon wing mirrors...

I make it £7815 if you stop after you've ticked every box short of mats, bicycle racks etc. Chuck in some Deep Black paint and she's just under £40k fully loaded on a 3 door DSG Mk7 R..

[infernox]

Well it's nav pro so not sure what the difference between MIB1 and MIB2 for nav pro is. Yeah BW22 is MY16 which had MIB2, but that started in May 2015 I think so half of the 15 reg cars have it and half don't. No idea how you can check build weeks on used cars. Both are 5 door DSG mk7 R's in Deep Black. Maybe they included DSG as an extra. I agree with you though, it doesn't seem like £3k residual value more.

[Derboy]

Do you ever worry about overpolishing your car? There was a lad on the Scirocco forum called "Derboy" who used to give his black Scirocco the full works as often as you and he'd polished all his lacquer away within 2 years, probably not hard to do with the kind of paints being used now.

Actually that was down to a poor respray job after the car had been taken out by an artic....

I've just bought one of these poverty spec Golf Rs after cancelling a similarly attractive lease deal on a new shape S5 (glut of cheap lease deals before Xmas. Expect to see the same situation with these in 2 years). Scirocco was one of my favourite cars and I've had a hankering for a new hot hatch for a while.

Almost impossible to find a car with leather and there's a glut of red cars on the market. I wanted a black one but settled for white in the end. Not a fan of the cloth or the tiny screen on the Composition media so I'm getting it re-trimmed and fitting one of the Alpine Style Nav units as soon as possible.

[infernox]

Just need some advice too. There's another car now but its a GTI 66 Plate DSG nearly new car for £25k too. Has the same options as the Golf R 15 plate DSG for the same price. Which one would you go for? 90% of my driving is city driving so not sure if I need an R.

[Derboy]

Nothing wrong with the GTi. Plenty quick and very usable but the R is in a different league IMHO. I set up to buy a GTi but then realised I'd regret not going for the extra power. So instead of a tricked out GTi I've got a bog standard R that I can do things to later. Easy enough to add leather and Sat Nav later, harder to swap an engine etc.

Just make sure you test drive both before deciding.