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[Cavcraft]

Any of you jolly bunch know what a very tidy and original Polo 'breadvan' (stupid fucking name) is worth please? It's a 1989, 80,000 miles and allegedly very tidy with a long MOT.

 

Thanks in advance!

[garbaldy]

About £300 without the stoopid tax

[hairnet]

3-400

 

25yo polo tho dude

 

buy it before the scene bummers do

[Cavcraft]

Cheers, I'll probably give it a swerve then. Many thanks!

[Craig the Princess]

Pineapple in the boot would mean £10,000

[dugong]

Any of you jolly bunch know what a very tidy and original Polo 'breadvan' (stupid fucking name) is worth please? It's a 1989, 80,000 miles and allegedly very tidy with a long MOT.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

As a basic piece of transport Mk2 Polos are actually pretty decent.

 

Very little to go wrong and strong engines other than that hateful Pierburg autochoke carburettor. The German 'vans are better than than the Spanish ones but I would uprate the brakes, a lot. 

 

Value? Between £350-500. 

 

Here's an article on one:

 

http://blacktopmagazine.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/mint-as-a-whole/

[Micrashed]

As much as someone is willing to pay really.

 

Cut the springs, paint it with Nitromors and watch it fly on eBay.

[rml2345]

As much as someone is willing to pay really.

 

Cut the springs, paint it with Nitromors and watch the jaws of the crusher close around it six weeks later.

 

EFA

[skattrd]

I was just thinking they are remarkably practical little cars, as said, prices vary depending on how scene they are.

[vulgalour]

They're great little things, but also terrible.  Build quality is right up there if you get an early German built one but pretty shit if you get a later Spanish built one.  The 1ltr engine doesn't seem to last beyond the first 100K so well, but that might just be because of them being one of those cars that never asks for anything ever.  Excellent on fuel, not terribly uncomfortable, parts are cheap but they do seem to destroy front suspension top bushes for fun even when they're not lowered.

 

I regret selling mine, even though the engine was probably completely fucked with a perpetual overheating issue and 118K on the clock.

[derskine]

Yeah they are great cars, that 1989 will be spanish built with a pierburg autochoke unless someone's converted it to a weber.

My 1L was great on fuel and never had an issue that left me stranded/without a car with it.

I would agree at 300-400 depending on condition, check the sill in front of the fuel filler neck as they always rot due to collecting moist mud.

Sometimes quite hard to see they're rotten until you rip it off haha

[Rocket88]

Brakes are epically shit on all of them......................

[londonm]

I had one back in the day, a 1984 one. Superbly built little car but with shocking quality brakes. As mentioned above, factor in upgrading brakes.

[Pillock]

No, factor in braking earlier. I still brake early whatever I'm driving thanks to a few brown trouser moments in a 140bhp Mk3 (which the Germans accurately referred to as a Mk2 Facelift)

[skattrd]

Brakes are epically shit on all of them......................

 

I seem to remember hearing that the brakes from a mk2 Scirocco can be used to upgrade the early Polo's..

 

Before anyone says the Scirocco brakes were never great I agree, but they were in a heavier car with the servo on the wrong side. These can also be upgraded with a larger servo/master  along with adapters for 280mm discs (std are 239mm iirc).

[M'coli]

The brakes are fine, just unservo'd.  They might need a decent shove because of this but rarely do they experience severe brake fade during normal use.  There are too many cars that are over assisted* these days, thus it skews the opinion of unservo'd brakes.  The Polo's unservo'd set-up I'd trust more than the (servo'd) 3-stud Pug 106's brakes on aftermarket OEM-standard kit.

 

In short: good driving position for a small car, decent fuel economy, cheap tyres, good snow performance and a huge washer reservoir makes for fantastic cheap long winter journey student/young person motoring, circa 2002.

 

Get it bought.

 

*This is my opinion as a reasonably sturdily built bloke.  If it were an ideal world, then we'd be able to select the amount of extra assistance we require - some tiny people require a lot, but others don't and prefer heavier steering, brakes and throttle.

[dieselnutjob]

I went to 280mm discs on my Passat as the brakes were a bit small for a biggish estate.

I needed:-

Corrado G60 discs

Golf GTI or VR6 calipers and pads

15" wheels

is was a worthwhile upgrade on a Passat

[Pete-M]

If its very tidy anything up to £1k.

 

No point in complaining about "scene tax" if someone's willing to give you a decent lump of profit on it.

 

I'd only give £350ish for it though. Give it a full on valet and a Doctor style bollocks write up and shove it on car and classic or fleabay.

 

"This rare and exciting Volkswagen Polo 1.0 was purchased on 3rd March 1983 by Mrs Vera Frontbottom of Hawarden. To this day this car had never seen rain or experienced weather temperatures of below 25 degrees Celsius. Mrs Frontbottom kept this car in a hermetically sealed chamber for 20 years only covering 120000 miles in that time. The car is fitted with a full set of Sava tyres as fitted by her VW dealer in 1997. The original brake pads are still fitted as Mrs Frontbottom didn't like brakes.

 

Then take a pic of it in the snow.

[Skizzer]

A Volkswagen?  Who are you and what have you done with Cavette?

 

I've had three of these over the years and liked them all.  I'm with Pillock and M'Coli on the brakes - they pull you up fine*, just need a good shove and so a bit of getting used to.

 

 

 

*But don't come crying to me if you end up upside down in the middle of a roundabout.

[STUNO]

Sounds a bit like this comes with scenetax already fitted up.

[Pillock]

Yeah you can't get the bigger brakes under 13" wheels, and they look daft on bigger wheels. Also the parts needed are s'taxed to heck and will cost more than the car is worth.

[Barry Cade]

I ran a few of these when I were a lad. Basic and austere, but cracking wee things. Most of mine were Coop S flavour, and were a lot of fun. Only thing was a lot of CD players wouldn't work in them because of the angle they sat at.  I saved one from the scrappys in 2004, ran it for a while then sold it on- Mint it was. It's still on the go and looking good. Still get a wave from the owner!

[Pete-M]

A lot of my formative driving years were in a 81 W reg Polo. 900cc job. It went everywhere on its door handles, poor thing. Used to thrash it mercilessly everywhere, all the time. Brakes on that were disgracefully bad despite it needing and getting new pads every few months. 

 

It has left it's legacy with my driving style. To this day it's very rare I need to replace brake pads as braking heavily is something I still try to avoid.. last time I had a Mk1 Golf GTi the first thing I thought of was that old Polo every time I hit the brakes in it. Bloody awful brakes on those as well. It's as if VW were trying to encourage euthanasia again.