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Offline boneybradley

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Re: gti 2.0
« Reply #30 on: 02 March 2008, 12:52 »
apart from the timing chain and obviously good service history , what else should i check specifically on a golf when i go to look at one ?


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Offline golfvirgin

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Re: gti 2.0
« Reply #31 on: 02 March 2008, 12:57 »
i found it as i had finished writing  :grin:

bit scary !! so many things....i never had that with the old 1990 325 beemers i had !! service history and that was it , the rest was like a tank !! NOTHING ever broke !!

hmmmmm   :undecided:

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Re: gti 2.0
« Reply #32 on: 02 March 2008, 13:01 »
good golf's are the same as a good bmw's.... my friend is a bmw specialists and the newer the bm is the more problems they have!! and there allways expensive problems!

I have owned mine over 2 years and nothing has broken... then again my last one fell apart!!
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Re: gti 2.0
« Reply #33 on: 02 March 2008, 13:12 »
ye youre right mate its all the same really , , you can be lucky and get a belter or not so lucky...

at least you cut the odds a bit buyin german  :smiley: