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I looked at 7 in all -4 silver, 1 red and 2 black in various conditions (all were meant to be nice!) and mileages, but really I wanted one less than 80k miles and in as mint condition as I could find for the money I had. After looking at the first 3 (2 silver and 1 red), I realised that it would be better to spend a little more to get one in nicer condition without bits being sprayed here and there and less dents & scratches etc + of course lower mileage. I then found a black one with low miles, but it needed the rear bumper spraying, had lots of small dents and scratches everwhere + the driver's seat bolster looked a bit more worn that I would have thought for the low miles, so I decided to still look around. I arranged to see one in Leicester the weekend just gone (as I'm in Kent, so quite a trek!) that was advertised on here and keep looking in the mean-time. I phoned up about 2 on Thursday night -a black and a silver one, the silver one already had someone going to see it friday evening and I arranged to see the black one on Saturday morning. When I saw it, it was very clean, low miles and the interior was nearly like new! It drove lovely too, so I was really keen on that one.
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Sunday I trekked up to leicester to see the other silver one and it was really nice condition. It had coilovers too which I would ideally like and I would have been happy with the car, but it wasn't quite as mint as the black one that had a fair few less miles too. Black had never been my favourite colour, not because I don't like it, but because it takes a fair bit more effort to keep it continually looking clean! But really, I thought I had to go for the cleanest car that would last me the longest (touch wood!)
More details on it + pics once I get her back home!
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This is the build thread to my old Golf GTI 16V if anyone's interested!:
http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.p ... opic=90512