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Do you prefer driving, polishing or fiddling with your Golf?

Fiddling
11 (22%)
Polishing
4 (8%)
Driving
35 (70%)
On a driving ban
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 46

Voting closed: 29 February 2008, 00:59

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Offline tinman

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Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« on: 22 February 2008, 00:59 »
Ok people, the big question I am asking at the moment is what you like doing with your Golf. Driving it, polishing it or fiddling with it. Or whether you have a ban and aren't allowed to drive it.

The reason I ask is that we (StreetSafari) are doing a Pennine Run on March 15th, and the response from my own peers (I have a very rebuilt Mk2 GTI 16v Campaign in storage) is dreadful. I have posted it in the Events section and I am monitoring how many people are looking at the thread.

Now, to make you all feel bad, the GolfGTI Pennine thread has been running for 2 days now, and there have been 6 unique visits. Read it people - a whole 6 of you on the biggest Golf forum have looked at a thread about a free run round the Pennines.

To make you all feel worse, the Maestro & Montego Owners Club have 31 unique visits in 24 hours. Even the Rover 800 forum who have seen the thread for 4 hours have 13 unique visits.

The s197 forum (new shape retro Mustang of which I own one) - 21 unique visits in 2 days. There are only 500 s197s in the country and 21 owners have looked it up (of which 2 of them are now on the run)!

So come on people, do you drive, polish, or fiddle with your Golfs? ;)
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Offline Guy

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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #1 on: 22 February 2008, 01:03 »
hmmm... that's a poser... I like doing all three in equal measure...

i love driving my golf as it's my daily driver... and polishing and fiddling are done together cause I am invariably taking bits off to detail it....

ummm...  :undecided:

good luck with the Pennine Run... I am boarding on the 15th so won't be able to make it!
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #2 on: 22 February 2008, 09:52 »
As 1. I'm in Bristol, which is a long way from the Penines and 2. My Golf's on axle stands, as it's having some major surgery (involving neither fiddling, nor polishing) I'm not really looking at going to any 'events' at the moment.

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a free run round the Pennines

Errrr, anyone can have a 'free run around the Penines' on any day of the week, provided they can read a map (unless you're offering to pay for the fuel).  Also doing it on your own is less likely to attract interest from the authorities, so the last thing I'd be thinking about doing is going in a group of enthusiasts.  Some of the best drives of my life have been driving across the country during work time, between appointments, on my own without loads of other people cramping my drive.
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #3 on: 22 February 2008, 10:03 »
i love doing all but you do two of those so you can drive (with a clean car lol). you just cant beat a good road and your right foot! nearly as good as sex....... well kind of lol  :rolleyes:  :tongue:  :grin:
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #4 on: 22 February 2008, 10:05 »
The sort of event you mentioned is always a top laugh, used to go onthings like this with my mini. The thing is it doesn't really seem to be something golf woners are that inteested in. DOn't ask me why as I don't know, it's just the way it is.

Nick
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #5 on: 22 February 2008, 10:31 »
Quote from: Horneyâ„¢ on 22 February 2008, 10:05
The sort of event you mentioned is always a top laugh, used to go onthings like this with my mini. The thing is it doesn't really seem to be something golf woners are that inteested in. DOn't ask me why as I don't know, it's just the way it is.

Nick

Agreed. Not many people on here seem to be what you might call old-fashioned motorists, who just enjoy driving.
Used to take my Mini on all sorts of road trips - drove it to Budapest once - but there doesn't seem to be much of that on here.
Maybe in the summer a few of us could find a campsite in the Lakes or some such place and go & play. 
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #6 on: 22 February 2008, 11:05 »
i think its probs cos golfs wont make it anywhere without needing fixing on the way...ooooonly kidding! a mk2 might mkae it, but all the others will break.
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #7 on: 22 February 2008, 11:14 »
Clearly you have never owned a mini!

Nick
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #8 on: 22 February 2008, 14:30 »
Quote from: Diamond Hell on 22 February 2008, 09:52
Errrr, anyone can have a 'free run around the Penines' on any day of the week, provided they can read a map (unless you're offering to pay for the fuel).  Also doing it on your own is less likely to attract interest from the authorities, so the last thing I'd be thinking about doing is going in a group of enthusiasts.  Some of the best drives of my life have been driving across the country during work time, between appointments, on my own without loads of other people cramping my drive.

Ok, so meeting other driving enthusiasts isn't your thing. Gotcha!
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Re: Driving, Polishing, or Fiddling
« Reply #9 on: 22 February 2008, 14:32 »
Quote from: Peel on 22 February 2008, 10:31
Quote from: Horneyâ„¢ on 22 February 2008, 10:05
The sort of event you mentioned is always a top laugh, used to go onthings like this with my mini. The thing is it doesn't really seem to be something golf woners are that inteested in. DOn't ask me why as I don't know, it's just the way it is.

Nick

Agreed. Not many people on here seem to be what you might call old-fashioned motorists, who just enjoy driving.
Used to take my Mini on all sorts of road trips - drove it to Budapest once - but there doesn't seem to be much of that on here. 

Moving this along a bit, are you saying that Golf ownership has become a bit of a fashion statement?
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