I then got a dragon green 1.4CL 6N which I've had for nearly 4 years now. I sadly had to sell the golf last year due to the recession and earning less with more bills! Anyway, I thought it was time for a new car and something that I could tinker with & enjoy more + feel part of at shows & meets, so I set out looking for a 6N2 GTI! 
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.
I phoned about the silver one to see it was still available and it turned out that the guy didn't go on Friday evcening in the end, so I went to look at that one. It had low miles, but not as low as the black one and hadn't been looked after nearly as well either. There were a few scratches and dents, the headlights were nearly a yellow colour and was nowehere near as good as the black one, so I left that one.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!
This is the build thread to my old Golf GTI 16V if anyone's interested!:
http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.p ... opic=90512
Do you use any particular polish on black ones? Obviously you don't want any polishes that leave a chalky residue/dust! I found Jetseal 109 pretty good as it went on easy and came off easy without any residue/dust. My old mk.2 Golf GTI 16V was white so the compete oppoiste colour! 
Anyway, the mileage on it is quite a lot more than the one I'm buying!
Not too expensive as what with showing my old Golf GTI at shows, I'd bought lots of different polishes and waxes etc. I have a big plastic crate of it all!
