The GTI 1.8T to be precise...

Anyone owned one or has one at the moment?

Seems they can be picked up fairly cheap now and i'm assuming their bullet proof

Can anyone give some advice on them? i.e. reliability, running costs & tuneability?

Cheers

 

For a turbo car there slow

Dash is very dated and boring IMO.

Suspension was like driving a jelly, no where near as good as a Focus at cornering.

VW hold their prices so i doubt your find one that cheap

Relaible car tho

 

How would you know? You don't go above 40mph!!!!!!

 

Good cars me mate has one seems fast tbh handles better than i thought it would and easly revo tec /chip to get more power.My mates chatters too

 

Thats probably because his plastic re-circulating dump valve is broken. (top right of the engine bay just under the pastic cover)

 

My cousin is a VW tech and he says they have a lot of faults!

Mate test drove a couple and bought a 106 GTi instead, said he much preferred it!

They go for about 5k upwards now!

 

There not terribly unreliable in my experience. Its all pissy stuff. Not major mechanicals. Stuff like the window regualtors breaking, and the fact they're easy to break into without setting the alarm off (Watchdog reported on this 2-3 years back) Minor trim stuff like the seat stitchings breaking, airbag faults, washer jet pipes coming off.

Engines are pretty good as are the gearboxes. And respond well to tuning

 

i work for VW and although they do have there common faults, they are very good cars, depends what you've had before etc IMO

the front window regs are know to fail, VW have made a modded version now so be warey of this, as there Ł220 a side to replace (the way you can tell if they have been done is with the window all the way down about 5-10mm of glass still sticks up) worht know IMO as expensive when they go wrong

there put toghter very well IMO, the interiour trim wares quite well, door trims alwasy seem to be fucked though

Also take one for a test drive and listen for knocking, as the plastic antiroll bar links do like to snap

apart from that cant really think of much else of the top of my head

 

as yes as mentions the rear washed jets blow the pipe off, soaking the latch and making the boot warning light come on, and airbag faults are quite common,

Air mass metres are so so common on these, but at only Ł70 ish (not bad IMO) on exchange if you do need to replaced it its not that bad

 

I've been thinkg of getting a Golf 1.8T anniversary - Same sorts of problems i assume. ??

 

Also thinking about an R32 - Has anyone heard of any problems with these ??

 

would much rather have a 25th anni for much less ŁŁŁ

 

Are the R32's not worth the cash then ??

 

I would consider a Audi A3 T sport. There are a little more expensive but a far better car in my opinion. I have just got one and love it

 

Thats still 37mph faster than you can walk

 

 

I've been checking out the S3's mate, there rather nice. But they seem to look rather plain !!, but then again i suppose the R32 still looks like a normal golf with wheels.

I was tempted with teh R32 cos its relatively new car

This is the problem form having an escort cossie, its so in your face wherever you go !! aint many cars that can match that.......

 

Not IMO no

 

i would have a Golf over an Audi, the majority of componants are the same, but golf has far better interior

 

I've just bought a VW Bora (Golf with a boot) TDI in Black......& I flockin love it to pieces!!! Real nice to drive, goes reasonably well - will go even better after a 140bhp remap - handlings not brilliant but that will get sorted in time. Brilliant MPG....I could sit here & bore the socks off you as to how much I like it! LOL!.....oh yeah & I got it at a price I couldnt refuse!!!

Anyone want a Pug 306TD!! LOL!