« Reply #85 on: 11 January 2024, 18:12 »
You'd have been waiting a long time to see a 8.5 (a year I reckon) and maybe like me not wanting to be first into the meat grinder after last time...
I'm constantly spitting fur that my problems were literally my car being 24hrs older than the changes which fixed a lot of the problems..
Mine was a pretty early build but was relatively trouble free, mine was a zero option car though so maybe spec affects the gremlins as yours is well optioned?
I always felt late in a model cycle cars are the best developed and most stable, this was echoed by Neil Birkitt in Volkswagen Driver mag some years ago in an editorial and as he test drove cars professionally I think his views hold far more weight than mine. I’ve owned a few end of line Golfs over the years and they were a) better built than early run examples and b ) often had sneaky further cost cutting!
The best mpg I’ve had from my CS is 49mpg
Can you give us some tips??! 😁
That’s mighty impressive
I've never paid 'luxury' car tax before and I'm also not happy about the prospect. It means that a good second hand car is much more attractive given someone will have paid the tax for the first few of the five years and that's worth a tidy sum.
As Fred says, it’s pretty galling paying it on a bloody Golf.
The salesperson in my local dealership put it very well “£180 you generally can pay without too much thought but £600 needs properly budgeting for”
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