Just Brought A Polo GTI *UPDATE*

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

After owning a 6n2 1.4 E and a 1.4 16V SE Polo, I have now "upgraded" to a Polo GTI.

Managed to talk the guy down to £3300, its a W reg the car has 50k miles FVWSH, 3dr silver, climate control, already has a twin pipe exhaust, MOT but no tax, 15" BBS alloys which need refurbishing. Need some "light" body work doing to the car, like left hand passenger door and rear quarter need some dressing up, other than that it drives lovely and I am now a proud owner of a Polo GTI.

Been to the bodyshop right after I brought it to get a quote and he quoted me an excellent price for front splitter colour coding, smoothed front bumper, smoothed rear bumper, removing these rather large side skirts already on the car and giving the car a full respray and touching up any dents I haven't noticed as yet. Should be going in the end of this month to do all that work.

Only other thing I have noticed is, the drivers side electric window switch that winds the passenger window down doesn't work to wind the window back up, also when pressed on the passenger side to halfway down, it strangely goes up by itself, is this common? What would I need to fix these problems and how much roughly would this cost?

Got alot of mods to do, but hopefully should be looking in excellent condition by the end of next month.

Let the fun begin.

[Mouse_GTI]

£3300? That's a bargain!

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

£3300? That's a bargain!

Yeah believe it or not, it's not a typing error lol

[polo_gti21]

sweet thats a bargin where in london are you?

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

sweet thats a bargin where in london are you?

From South East London. Like near London Bridge. Yourself?

[Silky V]

Congratuations!

[nafeGTI]

good work there, total bargain. can i ask how much you were quoted for a full re-spray?

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

good work there, total bargain. can i ask how much you were quoted for a full re-spray?

To do all the work I listed above, £925 my mate normally gets his car done by this bodyshop so I know he'll do a good job.

[Mouse_GTI]

That's a pretty good quote. I'm getting my bumpers done hopefully in the summer

[hot_polo]

was this the one on ebay??

welcome to the gti club, although mine is gone, the memory still lives on

theres another one on ebay if anybody is interested in a project. 51 plate with a knackered gearbox and a few bodywork dinks, its on for about 2.5k

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

was this the one on ebay??

welcome to the gti club, although mine is gone, the memory still lives on

theres another one on ebay if anybody is interested in a project. 51 plate with a knackered gearbox and a few bodywork dinks, its on for about 2.5k

Nah it wasn't on ebay.

Here's a few pics from the autotrader advert.

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

You can't really see the body work bits that need doing from the pictures, but you can see the front splitter has been completely ripped off somehow.

[Dangerous Dave]

Looks in pretty good nick, alloys look in fair nick aswell. All I can say is glad you are taking those side skirts off !!

[Silva_B!tch_Owner]

Looks in pretty good nick, alloys look in fair nick aswell. All I can say is glad you are taking those side skirts off !!

Haha yeah, I never liked them when I saw them either, look way too chav like for me.

[Biddle]

Yeah I agree ^^ why would you stick them on the GTi? Actually thinking about it why would you stick them on any car?