I should Sciroc-coco!

[Guest]

My late brother used to love these dragged-up volskygolfs, and he ragged his D reg red one something rotten back in the early 90s. He said that the awkward to use gearbox was "sporty", but that was probably a euphemism for "shagged". I could never warm to them at the time, but these days I grow fonder of them, not least as they make me think of my departed bro, who would have been 49 just the other day, but probably wouldn't have slowed down his driving. I have heard tell that the brakes can be what a friend described to me as as "abstract".

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C376930

[skattrd]

Great cars, I'd go for the injection though, better fuel economy & performance than the carb version. I'd get 40mpg on a run from my 1.8 inj engine.

The gear change does take a bit of getting used to. Short shift kits are available (quite expensive though). The std gearbox on the inj was a close ratio 5spd affair and I liked it, 3500rpm @ 70mph though. I fitted a 4+e box to mine a while back and hated it, longer legs on the motorway, but crap ratio's elsewhere. I'm not sure on what gearboxes were fitted to the carb motors, I think it varied. The 5spd close ratio is the one to go for in my opinion. Decent gearbox oil makes a world of difference on these, these boxes work well with Redline MTL oil, I don't even think about using anything else.

Brake upgrades are available, the standard brakes (239mm disks) are not bad, but with adapters you can fit 270-280mm disks. Larger servo/master cylinders are also available. I have 270mm disks on mine with the larger servo & master and the brakes are quite good.

They're only really a 2+2 due to the sloping roof, but the boot is huge and with the back-seat removed you can get loads of stuff in one.

 

If you're seriously looking for one, check out the forum. I'd look for an injection with the brake mods and a few other tweaks all ready done.

http://sciroccoregisterforum.co.uk/carforum/index.php

[Guest]

I am not looking, cheers, just musing, and sharing this decentish looking white one with the assembled choddists. I am trying to sell cars, not buy them.

[skattrd]

Fleet reduction sometimes goes in the wrong direction though

 

Here's some old pics of mine, the blue leather recaro's were a custom re-trim by the previous owner.

 

 

[Guest]

Barrytabulous!

[RichardMoss]

They're still cheap - but not for much longer, I reckon.

[cort16]

My old house mate had a 1.6gt for years and although not that quick it really handled. My other house mate had a mk 2 Opel kadett GSi that was a right shed and could leave the scirocco for dead on straights but the scirocco always caught up in the bends. It was very easy to overheat the brakes and you ended up with mega brake fade, which was vaguely terrifying.

I had a Volvo 360 gle, which was both left for dead on the straights by the Opel and out cornered by the vw. The ladies loved it though*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*not true either

[Skizzer]

My old house mate had a 1.6gt for years and although not that quick it really handled

 

This.

 

Mine's completely f*cked now, unfortunately, having been parked up with a variety of fuelling and cooling issues in about 1999. Since SORN was a new invention I didn't understand and I was working/living abroad at the time, I realised later I would probably get hit with £££ in fines for unpaid car tax if I ever put it back on the road, so didn't.

 

Anyone who fancies a trip to sunny Wales to haul it away can have it for free, and more than welcome.

[John F]

My old house mate had a 1.6gt for years and although not that quick it really handled

 

This.

 

Mine's completely f*cked now, unfortunately, having been parked up with a variety of fuelling and cooling issues in about 1999. Since SORN was a new invention I didn't understand and I was working/living abroad at the time, I realised later I would probably get hit with £££ in fines for unpaid car tax if I ever put it back on the road, so didn't.

 

Anyone who fancies a trip to sunny Wales to haul it away can have it for free, and more than welcome.

 

Just tell DVLA that the car was abroad during the time it wasn't SORNed

[Spiny Norman]

Always liked these old 'Roccos, even if they were a bit shite under the sexy frock.

The brakes in all rhd VAG cars in the 80s were a bit crap as I recall, something to do with the linkage they had to fit from the pedal to the servo because there wasn't room to move the servo to the left side of the engine bay.

[RichardMoss]

I had a 1980 mk1 Storm and miss it very much - it's one of two cars that I regret selling (the other being my almost-last-off-the-line TR7 DHC)

[Skizzer]

Just tell DVLA that the car was abroad during the time it wasn't SORNed

 

Not a bad idea - or would I just get stiffed for not doing the export paperwork instead? Current plan is to persuade a mate who owes me a favour to 'buy' it off me and get a new V5 as the paper trail should have gone very cold by now.

 

At one point I was considering plonking the body on the chassis of my Land Rover 90 to make a sort of Scirocco monster truck, after seeing Jim Rogers's round-the-world Mercedes SLK parked in Knightsbridge:

 

 

Luckily I thought better of it, although I still think as a concept it beats chopping 18" out of a perfectly serviceable Range Rover.

 

Edited to add: Google says Scirocco monster truck has been done:

Mine would OBVIOUSLY have been a lot more tasteful, and maybe actually driveable.

[Pillock]

My '84 Storm was one of the best cars I've ever owned. I loved the eager 1.8 injection engine and although it took a bit of getting used to, the gearbox was great. It was also brown.

[bigstraight6]

Great looking car the MK2 Scirocco, the same certainly can't be said of the latest horrendous bloated incarnation that looks like a Golf an Elephant has sat on I had the pleasure of owning a beautiful low miles 1984 1 owner MK2 1600 GL in that nice metallic champagne colour about 12 years ago, I'd not had the car for 24 hours when some pizza faced boy racer driving a MK3 XR2 rear ended it writing it off, that said the Ford was completely destroyed where the Scirocco was still drivable.

[RichardMoss]

Great looking car the MK2 Scirocco, the same certainly can't be said of the latest horrendous bloated incarnation that looks like a Golf an Elephant has sat on

I'm glad I'm not the only who thinks that

[barefoot]

In defence of the 4 + E gearbox, the ratios suit the torquey 1.6 GT very well.

It's 125 torks at 2500 but only 75 bhps at 5000, it's very odd but works nicely.