Meet Daisy…

[monkeyhanger]

Hi Exonian and congratulations on your new toy 

I'm with you on Pure White being the best colour for a Mk8 (in the absence of White Silver which I loved on my Mk7.5) but with a few others on having a hatred of diamond polished alloys solely because of deterioration issues.

Like you've said though you can always get them painted if that happens.

You said the end of your 3 year warranty was a factor in the change, but couldn't you have just bought a new 1 year “All Component Cover“ warranty from VW to put your mind at rest?  I'm guessing £400-£500 could be the going rate for a 3 year old Clubby and it would have given you more time to see what the Mk8.5 might offer.

My Clubby lease is up in 6 months and I'm thinking of extending the lease and buying the comprehensive warranty to keep my options open for another year and to see how car prices change in that period.

Anyway Daisy looks ace and I may still get an R some day if my luck is in.

Can you buy an all component warranty from VW these days? You used to be able to buy an extension to the factory warranty prior to registration of the car for either 4 years or 5 years, but VW stopped doing these around 2019 if I remember rightly.

Yes, the All Component warranty is still available.

https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/owners-and-services/my-car/important-information/warranties-and-insurance/warranties.html

That's not quite the same as the factory extension warranty that VW no longer provide (but Seat and Audi do). It has its limitations, the factory warranty extension doesn't. It doesn't look to be too onerous in its limitations, but definitely not quite the same thing.

[monkeyhanger]

@fredgroves what’s at the top of Mrs fredgroves car list? Time to go EV before they hit them for VED! It’s a shame the grants went.
Not a great time to be making any large purchase, especially cars with trade prices heading rapidly south and new prices heading forever north. Maybe some nuggets will be sent as a bribe in the March budget, they’ll let the next gov’t worry how it’s all going to be paid for!

Mini for her. She likes her minis.

Me not so much! Her choice tho.

The electric mini is a nice drive, unencumbered by a hugely heavy battery pack, but the range is very poor - fine as a second car for the shorter journeys. Mini depreciation is hideous though - better buy a year old one for 55-60% of new RRP. We once looked into minis before the wife got her Polo GTI in 2019, we found the pedal placement for the manual models to be horrible. A 30 min test drive gave me serious knee ache as a result. Hopefully 2 pedal set-up is better.

[Kgti8]

Lapiz blue really does stand out and with the R badge having been bastardised by so many “R-Line“ versions of fairly mundane models it leaves no one in any doubt.

It looks great when polished like yours Kgti8 and it's good to hear you're happy with the change.

Did you get the performance pack?

I did. Spec was:

Performance Pack (with black Estorils)
DCC
Pan roof
Nappa leather
Harman Kardon
Winter pack
Akra exhaust
Black pack

And agreed on the R-lines with Lapiz. Was much more distinctive in the MK7 when R lines were actually badged as R-line and Lapiz was exclusive to the actual R!

[fredgroves]

Monkey,

We have two minis here... Her f56 and an older coupe.

I hate them both!

Both have the BMW seat problems and horrendous hard ride.

Not for me at all but everyone else here loves them...

[Exonian]

I did. Spec was:

Performance Pack (with black Estorils)
DCC
Pan roof
Nappa leather
Harman Kardon
Winter pack
Akra exhaust
Black pack

And agreed on the R-lines with Lapiz. Was much more distinctive in the MK7 when R lines were actually badged as R-line and Lapiz was exclusive to the actual R!

Ahh, I genuinely thought yours was a 20 Years, it’s because in the UK we don’t get the black pack option so the only ones with black mirrors are the R20Y cars.
The Irish market seems to get a better variety of options but cars seem amazingly expensive there.
The Black pack looks really good especially against the Lapiz.

The electric mini is a nice drive, unencumbered by a hugely heavy battery pack, but the range is very poor - fine as a second car for the shorter journeys. Mini depreciation is hideous though - better buy a year old one for 55-60% of new RRP. We once looked into minis before the wife got her Polo GTI in 2019, we found the pedal placement for the manual models to be horrible. A 30 min test drive gave me serious knee ache as a result. Hopefully 2 pedal set-up is better.

The new incoming Mini Elactrics have the option of bigger batteries and are on a new fully EV platform so are different in every area to the current 2014-onwards F56, they’re Chinese built and are very high tech inside.
215 bhp option instead of solely 180.

If going for a run out R56 with tiny battery you can get 2.9% APR, free charger, free insurance and big discounts right now so they’re not as bad value as they look if you’re going to keep the car for a few years.
The incoming Chinese cars have much higher APR and as SRGTD says, they’re expensive. Getting one to £40k is very easy.
Theoretically the Chinese ones shouldn’t be as cramped inside so long as you’re not a back seat passenger.

[monkeyhanger]

I did. Spec was:

Performance Pack (with black Estorils)
DCC
Pan roof
Nappa leather
Harman Kardon
Winter pack
Akra exhaust
Black pack

And agreed on the R-lines with Lapiz. Was much more distinctive in the MK7 when R lines were actually badged as R-line and Lapiz was exclusive to the actual R!

Ahh, I genuinely thought yours was a 20 Years, it’s because in the UK we don’t get the black pack option so the only ones with black mirrors are the R20Y cars.
The Irish market seems to get a better variety of options but cars seem amazingly expensive there.
The Black pack looks really good especially against the Lapiz.

The electric mini is a nice drive, unencumbered by a hugely heavy battery pack, but the range is very poor - fine as a second car for the shorter journeys. Mini depreciation is hideous though - better buy a year old one for 55-60% of new RRP. We once looked into minis before the wife got her Polo GTI in 2019, we found the pedal placement for the manual models to be horrible. A 30 min test drive gave me serious knee ache as a result. Hopefully 2 pedal set-up is better.

The new incoming Mini Elactrics have the option of bigger batteries and are on a new fully EV platform so are different in every area to the current 2014-onwards F56, they’re Chinese built and are very high tech inside.
215 bhp option instead of solely 180.

If going for a run out R56 with tiny battery you can get 2.9% APR, free charger, free insurance and big discounts right now so they’re not as bad value as they look if you’re going to keep the car for a few years.
The incoming Chinese cars have much higher APR and as SRGTD says, they’re expensive. Getting one to £40k is very easy.
Theoretically the Chinese ones shouldn’t be as cramped inside so long as you’re not a back seat passenger.

Buying a new car with the level of depreciation that minis suffer would be nuts. There are some cars you just shouldn't buy new with your own money, and the mini is one of them, when you see them at franchised dealerships for 60% of RRP at just over 1 year old.

The tiny battery is what made the electric mini nimble - hopefully that isn't all lost with the bigger batteries. Chinese BEVs aren't very Greenhithe (if that's people's motivation for buying one) - batteries and xar manufactured with coal power. These Chinese BEVs are built with enough CO2 baggage vs a European ICE car that the ICE car can drive 45k miles on petrol before the BEV has driven a mile to match it for CO2 output.

[fredgroves]

I think we'll probably have a good think about the Mini before dropping the cash.

Her current F56 was a steal... but it was 2017 when we bought it. Its been very low cost motoring since then.

No particular reason to change it either other than she wants a new car and an electric one...

[evo1986]

I did hear about a cracking deal on PCP on a Mini electric at like £299 deposit then £299 per month but think they had to be collected by the end of the year to qualify….

[gavinl1967]

Monkey,

We have two minis here... Her f56 and an older coupe.

I hate them both!

Both have the BMW seat problems and horrendous hard ride.

Not for me at all but everyone else here loves them...

You’re not alone, another MINI hater here 👍. I can’t stand them.  A mini to me is the original Cooper my Dad had back in the early 70’s.

Oh, and Exonian, nice new wheels BTW 👍

[monkeyhanger]

Monkey,

We have two minis here... Her f56 and an older coupe.

I hate them both!

Both have the BMW seat problems and horrendous hard ride.

Not for me at all but everyone else here loves them...

You’re not alone, another MINI hater here 👍. I can’t stand them.  A mini to me is the original Cooper my Dad had back in the early 70’s.

Oh, and Exonian, nice new wheels BTW 👍

I hate the original mini. My mam gad one and it was like a baccy tin on wheels.