Originally Posted by keithG666
Originally Posted by TIFF
Originally Posted by keithG666
Originally Posted by paulpalmer
On a K reg you'd only expect to pay that for one with 100k on the clock. I sold my wifes L reg VR6 with leather and 106k on it for £1450 back in the summer.
having never driven or been in one.....are they nice to drive?? etc??
WELL WELL WELL...........................
Keith
Drive one first......I think you may be disapointed
I have been mainly driving a Mk3 astra for the last two years.......would i still be disapointed???
its either this or a corrado G60 that i have been offered at £2000
They are nice to drive but as standard they don't handle. Get the latest one you can and make sure that if it's close to 100k that it's had the cam chain done because they are very expensive to replace because the gearbox has to come off
I found the brakes to be very poor on my wifes one so I upgraded them from the standard 280mm ones to the later 288mm ones and although there's no real difference in size they work much much better. My wifes one had konis all round on it though.
My wife replaced the VR6 with a mark 3 gti 16 valve due to fuel and insurance costs (and a 2.8 + a woman is a waste
) so I swapped the suspension & brakes onto the gti and that's much better
Driving the standard gti back from where we bought it from was awful because it was so high and there was so much body roll
Go and test drive one and if you can try a gti 16 valve.
The superchargers on the G60 engine can be very expensive to replace or repair when they go wrong and the G60 engine isn't that powerful as standard.
Standard golf headlights are also pretty poor but these are a nice upgrade and I only paid £130 for them brand new 3 years ago
I swapped them onto the gti too as seen below.
