New VW owner says hi
Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 9:23 pm
Hi Chaps
Just a quick hi as I've just got my first VW. I'm a 43 married guy living in Gt Yarmouth, and the VW is only a 2000 Polo 1.0 E. My daily drive is normally a Jeep Commander 3.0 CRD Limited auto mostly driven with 'verve and enthusiasm', but with fuel prices, and some chunky repair bills and upgrade plans I need to reduce my outlay. Also my wife wants a car, so I thought of killing 2 birds with one stone, and getting something cheap and cheerful.
Me and the wife realized that sub 1k you're mostly looking at some real rubbish, so we set a budget of £2k and went shopping. We ended up looking at a little red car, yup the Polo. I always appreciated that model, and getting in it, it felt more solid than the Clio and Corsa, and even as E spec, you didn't feel budget. Seat fabric was nice, car basically as mint inside with 2 owners. Then I looked at the odo, looked again, then checked the service book not believing my eyes. This little car only had 40k on the clock and piles of receipts going back years. Took it for a test drive and it felt very chuckable; like a lotus elise comparatively speaking, quite nimble and zippy.
We made the decision to buy it and I told my wife to be quiet and let me talk to the trader, so I could negotiate. He asked how was it, and I replied 'it was ok', he then asked my wife who promptly cracked and said how much she loved it, and wanted it. Damn - any the poss of negotiation evaporated right there .....
Upshot is we (i) paid £1700 for a 13 year old Polo, primarily due to its mileage, thick sheaf of maintenance and receipts going back years, the drive, overall condition and the 3 months P&L warranty. It was a few hundred quid too much, but a check of Autotrader showed the nearest to 40k was 115 miles away for only £200 quid less. This Polo is bought for the long haul, as is the Jeep. I took the view there wasn't much to go wrong on it
We picked it up today and the wife is chuffed to bits with it. As I said the interior is mint, including the headlining and the seats are the black fabric so don't have dubious marks and stains. The exterior has a smattering of stone chips, which show up clear as day with the white primer and the bumpers have faded a bit ... the perils of a read car (our corrolla went pink ). We both prefer it to the Punto, Corsa, and Ka we viewed.
Into over, cheers chaps
Just a quick hi as I've just got my first VW. I'm a 43 married guy living in Gt Yarmouth, and the VW is only a 2000 Polo 1.0 E. My daily drive is normally a Jeep Commander 3.0 CRD Limited auto mostly driven with 'verve and enthusiasm', but with fuel prices, and some chunky repair bills and upgrade plans I need to reduce my outlay. Also my wife wants a car, so I thought of killing 2 birds with one stone, and getting something cheap and cheerful.
Me and the wife realized that sub 1k you're mostly looking at some real rubbish, so we set a budget of £2k and went shopping. We ended up looking at a little red car, yup the Polo. I always appreciated that model, and getting in it, it felt more solid than the Clio and Corsa, and even as E spec, you didn't feel budget. Seat fabric was nice, car basically as mint inside with 2 owners. Then I looked at the odo, looked again, then checked the service book not believing my eyes. This little car only had 40k on the clock and piles of receipts going back years. Took it for a test drive and it felt very chuckable; like a lotus elise comparatively speaking, quite nimble and zippy.
We made the decision to buy it and I told my wife to be quiet and let me talk to the trader, so I could negotiate. He asked how was it, and I replied 'it was ok', he then asked my wife who promptly cracked and said how much she loved it, and wanted it. Damn - any the poss of negotiation evaporated right there .....
Upshot is we (i) paid £1700 for a 13 year old Polo, primarily due to its mileage, thick sheaf of maintenance and receipts going back years, the drive, overall condition and the 3 months P&L warranty. It was a few hundred quid too much, but a check of Autotrader showed the nearest to 40k was 115 miles away for only £200 quid less. This Polo is bought for the long haul, as is the Jeep. I took the view there wasn't much to go wrong on it
We picked it up today and the wife is chuffed to bits with it. As I said the interior is mint, including the headlining and the seats are the black fabric so don't have dubious marks and stains. The exterior has a smattering of stone chips, which show up clear as day with the white primer and the bumpers have faded a bit ... the perils of a read car (our corrolla went pink ). We both prefer it to the Punto, Corsa, and Ka we viewed.
Into over, cheers chaps
