I got this.. and I'm un-modifying it.

[DaveDorson]

I can't speak for everyone here but I would like to think the issue some have with volkswagens not that they're seen as good cars by their fans, but that they won't entertain the credibility or indeed existence of everything else. Same is true with fords to an extent.

Nice mk2 by the way, quite like the cross spokes myself, although bmw e30 ones look better imo.

Sorry. I'll take my pineapple with me

 

 

I'm a car fan.

 

I've had other cars, I just seem to enjoy VW ownership a lot more than other stuff.

[DaveDorson]

If it's a rusty old panel van with a VW badge on the front it's worth at least 5 times the price of an equivalent rusty old panel van.

 

It's the scene that goes with it you buy into.  You don't get shows for Austin J vans and you don't get the after market support with them either.  That's why they command the money.

Try and find suspension and brake components for a mid 1980's Bedford Midi, compared to a VW T3 of the same age.

[Lukas]

 

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 the issue some have with volkswagens...

 

The big issue I have with VWs is that VAG people (drivers) and VAG himself (advertising, dealers, salesmen) tend to be very arrogant. Especially the Audi-drivers. At least here in Austria. Car chauvinisms!  

 

 

It's the scene that goes with it you buy into.  You don't get shows for Austin J vans and you don't get the after market support with them either.  That's why they command the money.

Try and find suspension and brake components for a mid 1980's Bedford Midi, compared to a VW T3 of the same age.

 

Exactly that! Everyone  here loves VWs, there are a lot of aftermarket parts available, there are magazines, meetings. VW Busses can be seen in every third advert, they are in TV, they are everywhere. And people tend to love the ones everyone loves because if you are with the peer group of the winner, you are a winner too. 

[PiperCub]

Go for it, I had a three-door one same year and colour as your photos with the BBS wheels. It's an odd colour that looks better in reality than in photos. Had it for four years and was generally happy with it (only sold it as wanted to move on and had bought my house so didn't want a 'distraction car'!!) I'm biased but  they look best standard but with a few minor mods underneath (goodridge hose, relay'd headlights, top quality tyres etc).

 

De-twatting seems to be getting popular now for this genre of cars and personally I couldn't be happier about it, long may it continue. Good luck with it sir.

[UltraWomble]

I passed a 5 door "Driver" on the back of a trailer locally this afternoon. I loke the look of the Mk 2, not sure I'd want to own one mind you, but out of all the VAG stuff, this is the one I like the mostest.

[Junkman]

Problem is the MK1 Scirocco was a lovely car but it's almost as if the Italians sold rust to the Germans along with the styling on them.

 

Karmann was certainly not dependent on Italian assistance to build cars that rapidly reacted with Oxygen.

[purplebargeken]

I had a 1300 Golf, don't think it was a Driver but a 'Fair'something or other, or might have been a Ryder. Nice little thing once I had replaced the coil. Still going strong just a couple of years ago I believe. 

[beko1987]

I sat in a 51 plate mk4 today. Wasnt impressed tbh, obd port was well sloppy

[NorfolkNWeigh]

In 1991 a company I worked at bought a dozen 8v Gti 5 doors for less than the price of 1.6 SL Montego's . They all had those wheels,and,from memory those clear indicators, at 60,000 miles and 3 years they couldn't give the fuckers away and they had to go to auction (one of them might have had Scirocco mk2 alloys and my little brothers first car may have have gained a set of BBS crosspokes )

[EssDeeWon]

Tough as old boots these MK2 Golfs, nice work un modifying it 

[Pillock]

I had a 1.6 Driver - got the looks with the arches and quad lamp grille, but a carbed engine. Was OK really, I gave it death all of the time and it only needed that stupid waxstat thing glaring at a few times, a secondhand radiator thanks to a hole, and the little 50p plastic clip that makes it so it can go into fifth gear. 

 

Actually bought it from a friend as four of us wanted to go to a party in Brighton, and it was cheaper to buy a car between us than train tickets each. I "bought out" the other owners after the party. Drove it for a year and swapped it for a wardrobe in the end.

[vulgalour]

By wardrobe do you mean furniture or a Montego/Volvo estate?

[Pillock]

Actual wardrobe. Doors, square, large, functional.

 

Oh wait, that still sounds like a Volvo.

[the judge]

Oh the carbs on mk2 golfs. Served my apprentiship on those bastards pierburgs. Never got totally common faults,some had torn mounts,fucked waxstats,and others had terrible cases of the scoobies. Detested the carbs. Injections were no bother,esp PB engined motors

[Jerzy Woking]

I've had GTi's in Mk1, Mk 2 and Mk 3 variants, and occassionally drive the office Mk7. Mk 1 rusted spectacularly, as did the Mk2 and the Mk 3 was four steps backwards - a truely horrible thing.

 

I also had a Mk 2 Driver that, despite over 150,000 on the clock and having led a hard life, polished up so well that the paint looked like glass, and had no rot anywhere, unlike the GTi , which was strange. I stuck a set of Scala wheels on it, as they were £12.50 the set with great tyres from ebay, and they looked much better than the steels (which were kerbed to fuck).

 

I'd have another Mk2 Driver if one came up cheap again, but think those days have gone.

[Junkman]

I haven't owned a VW yet. Kind of odd, somehow.

[I_am_Diesel]

As the proud owner of a standard Mk2 GTi, I applaud you.

 

Pay close attention to the front chassis rails where the front cross member bolts on, loads of potential for corrosion there. Rear brake calipers can be a pain for sticking, you can get stronger return springs which were originally fitted to Granadas.

 

Great cars, fun to drive and easy to maintain. Nuff sed.

[Lukas]

 

 

I haven't owned a VW yet. 

 

I havent owned a VAG-car in my live too. And I am proud of that!