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 Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:32 am |
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Location: Warwickshire
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My hunt for a half decent Grand Tourisme is coming to an end. Ive been searching for a while now but cant seem to find one with reasonable miles on thats not been modified.
Im now looking into a standard GTI with SP kit. What are my chances of getting one with under 80k for £1500? Im not that fussed about colour but it must be in pretty good condition (no big scratches or dents). Also it must have the SP kit.
Is it worth avoiding cars with no service history? At what mileage do you usually see head gasket failure? I pressume cambelt changes should be done at 60k?
Any info would be good as im going to look at a few this weekend.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:41 am |
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Location: Salisbury / New Forest
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You'll be lucky to get a mint one for that budget.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:03 am |
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Location: Warwickshire
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Im not expecting a mint one. I know its going to have stone chips and couple of parking dents but aslong as they arent bad im not that fussed.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:09 am |
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Joined: Jul 26, 2010
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Location: Coventry
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Mine is in reasonable order, few door dinks and stonechips all the SP bits bar the arches and 72k/fsh and I paid £1700 about 3 months ago...
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:12 am |
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| Schnakey wrote: |
| Mine is in reasonable order, few door dinks and stonechips all the SP bits bar the arches and 72k/fsh and I paid £1700 about 3 months ago... |
That sounds good, id be willing to pay a bit extra if it had FSH.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:37 am |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: Bridgnorth, Nr Wolverhampton
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i just paid 1850 for a black, mint condition 51 plate gti with 60,000 miles, full service history, rare full leather interior, full SP kit, the works. and like £1300 worth of subtle mods (not chavved up) so its fully possible mate
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:39 am |
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Ok thats good to know you can get one cheaply with all the bits I want. I wouldnt mind mod's like lowering, different stereo etc just wanted to keep the exterior standard. Out of interest where did you find your car advertised? I keep looking on ebay, pistonheads and autotrader but not a lot of new ones appear.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:31 pm |
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Joined: Feb 10, 2010
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Location: Essex
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There was a really tidy GT near me up for £1499 a while ago, was trying to get a mate to buy it. Was like 1999 reg with 75k on the clock FSH recent cambelt etc and was imaculate in and out. So I guess it is possible.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:46 pm |
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[quote="206-GTi"]There was a really tidy GT near me up for £1499 a while ago, was trying to get a mate to buy it. Was like 1999 reg with 75k on the clock FSH recent cambelt etc and was imaculate in and out. So I guess it is possible.[/quote
Thats exactly what I want 
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:20 pm |
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Location: Essex
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Just a matter of time, when you want one there's none about or the ones which are priced higher than expected.
I must admit though, I thought £1499 was really reasonable and was considering buying it myself. It also took ages to sell which I thought was really odd, to me it was a real bargin.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:42 pm |
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I wouldn't pay a premium for a GT. Stick with the GTi as you'll get more for your money.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:44 pm |
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Location: Evesham, Worcestershire
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| Edward wrote: |
| I wouldn't pay a premium for a GT. Stick with the GTi as you'll get more for your money. |
Very true... you will more than likely find bumper damage on the GTs.
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:11 am |
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Considering their rarity very few GTs seem to have actually been looked after which to me shows there's nothing special about them.
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| 2001 GTi 138, Bilstein Sprint dampers, H&R springs, 21mm Peugeot Sport torsion bars, 22mm rear ARB, Peugeot Sport Group A wishbones, 283mm discs, Goodridge stainless hoses, Maniflow 304 grade 4-2-1 2.5" manifold and system, 200 cell cat, Richard Longman head, 45mm Jenvey throttle bodies, 9.5mm TB spacers, 90mm air horns, Jenvey throttle linkage, Jenvey fuel rail, Aeromotive and Goodridge fuel fittings and braided hose, ITG sausage filter, Radtec custom radiator, Piper Ultimate Road cams, Piper vernier pulleys, Omex 600 ECU. Saxo electric PAS pump, Vibra Technics engine mounts. Samco coolant hoses, TTV steel flywheel, 4.76 final drive ratio, 307 CC 180 ratios. 2019 BMW 530i. 2017 Mercedes C300 convertible. | |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:37 am |
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I do like the GT's but ive started looking at GTI's now as I really dont think i'll find a nice one. Ive seen a couple of GTI's locally a bit over my budget but im going to take a look at them this weekend anyway.
Do the GTI's have anything extra over the GT's?
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:49 am |
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Location: Salisbury / New Forest
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| Matt106 wrote: |
I do like the GT's but ive started looking at GTI's now as I really dont think i'll find a nice one. Ive seen a couple of GTI's locally a bit over my budget but im going to take a look at them this weekend anyway.
Do the GTI's have anything extra over the GT's? |
The GT has electric folding mirrors, thats all IIRC.
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