The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

JoeA3

Look what's popped up for sale again

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vw-golf-r-dsg/21208829

Seems keenly priced compared to what else is out there... one of the best examples in the country (or it certainly was 12 months ago).

hooch-85

Anyone interested in 151 GTD and a kidney?

Joe knows I'm obsessed with this car, I would love it.

carsfan2

Assume that was your one Joe?
That’s a lot of car for that money.
Seems a bargain price as it looks pristine.
Wouldn’t be surprised if a dealer bought it even at that money.

JoeA3

carsfan2 wrote: »

Assume that was your one Joe?
That’s a lot of car for that money.
Seems a bargain price as it looks pristine.
Wouldn’t be surprised if a dealer bought it even at that money.

Yeah it was mine. He's nearly doubled the mileage since I left it but it still looks very clean.

I think when you're selling one privately you do need to be aggressive on the price. There's been a good few dreamers on carzone over the last couple of years looking for dealer-money for them on private sales and they seem to stay for sale forever - or sometimes you see them reappear for sale with dealers... presumably eventually traded in.

SaintsYB

hooch-85 wrote: »

In that case, it's not too bad an offer I guess, what did that car retail for when new?

I thought it was a GTi/GTD you were trading.

I didn't buy it new so I'm not sure on my one but a new one is ~€35k.

DaveyDave

Got pictures of that other Cupra today, doesn't have ACC either. Seeing it on Thursday and it's close to home so I'm looking forward to giving it a good boot around my own roads

Anthonylfc

hooch-85 wrote: »

Anyone interested in 151 GTD and a kidney?

Joe knows I'm obsessed with this car, I would love it.

how much for your car alone ? :pac:

everlast75

JoeA3 wrote: »

Yeah it was mine. He's nearly doubled the mileage since I left it but it still looks very clean.

I think when you're selling one privately you do need to be aggressive on the price. There's been a good few dreamers on carzone over the last couple of years looking for dealer-money for them on private sales and they seem to stay for sale forever - or sometimes you see them reappear for sale with dealers... presumably eventually traded in.

Joe, if you don't mind disclosing, how much was it new. Would be interesting to know re depreciation. If not, no bother!

JoeA3

everlast75 wrote: »

Joe, if you don't mind disclosing, how much was it new. Would be interesting to know re depreciation. If not, no bother!

Around 49, 49.5k.

I sold it back to VW last January for a little under 34k.

So clearly, I took most of the hit. Buying them when they hit the 3 year old mark, at around the 30k level seems to be the sweet spot. The depreciation levels out a lot then.

hooch-85

He is taking a nice hit too, presumably he paid 35k or more for the car, and less than a year later it's up for 27k, and it's cheap at that.

blingrhino

You did well enough joe.

my 151 i traded January 18 also and i got 28k all be it with 80000 kms.

JoeA3

blingrhino wrote: »

You did well enough joe.

my 151 i traded January 18 also and i got 28k all be it with 80000 kms.

Yeah I did OK, I was fortunate that the VW dealers offered to buy it back. BMW dealer offered me 26.5k for it on a trade in :eek::pac:

blingrhino

funny you say that bmw athlone offered me 24k for mine but even told me it was worth more than that but that they would trade it. and that was against a new 430d grande coupe where im sure they would have plenty of leeway.

JoeA3

blingrhino wrote: »

funny you say that bmw athlone offered me 24k for mine but even told me it was worth more than that but that they would trade it. and that was against a new 430d grande coupe where im sure they would have plenty of leeway.

Dealers want it all they're own way, it does my head in.

For the craic, I called a SEAT dealer in Dublin last week. They have a 181 GTI-PP up for 39k. Pricey (the few other 181's on carzone are a few K cheaper), but this one caught my eye as it has a great spec, manual gearbox aside.

Anyway, long story short, the conversation with them was brief. They offered a ludicrous figure for my car and nothing at all off the GTI... so while I argued my high spec BMW shouldn't be compared to a low spec "SE" they sold last week for 34k, they simultaneously contradicted themselves and argued that their GTI shouldn't be compared to other GTI's with less spec. To$$sers!

It was a mad idea that floated in my head, I'll be shelving it for a while!

Anthonylfc

JoeA3 wrote: »

Dealers want it all they're own way, it does my head in.

For the craic, I called a SEAT dealer in Dublin last week. They have a 181 GTI-PP up for 39k. Pricey (the few other 181's on carzone are a few K cheaper), but this one caught my eye as it has a great spec, manual gearbox aside.

Anyway, long story short, the conversation with them was brief. They offered a ludicrous figure for my car and nothing at all off the GTI... so while I argued my high spec BMW shouldn't be compared to a low spec "SE" they sold last week for 34k, they simultaneously contradicted themselves and argued that their GTI shouldn't be compared to other GTI's with less spec. To$$sers!

It was a mad idea that floated in my head, I'll be shelving it for a while!

they always try make out that they are doing you a favour

joe duffy motors in general actually are renound for trying to dry fook you

Anthonylfc

OSI wrote: »

Joe Duffy would suck **** through a straw if it meant not dropping a fiver off the price of something. I literally walked from the VW dealership to the Audi dealership and got near 6k difference in trade in offer. Showed them the offer, still wouldn't budge.

wow that's a huge difference

who else does VW that's actually good ?

frank keane in liffey valley ??

carsfan2

JoeA3 wrote: »

Dealers want it all they're own way, it does my head in.

For the craic, I called a SEAT dealer in Dublin last week. They have a 181 GTI-PP up for 39k. Pricey (the few other 181's on carzone are a few K cheaper), but this one caught my eye as it has a great spec, manual gearbox aside.

Anyway, long story short, the conversation with them was brief. They offered a ludicrous figure for my car and nothing at all off the GTI... so while I argued my high spec BMW shouldn't be compared to a low spec "SE" they sold last week for 34k, they simultaneously contradicted themselves and argued that their GTI shouldn't be compared to other GTI's with less spec. To$$sers!

It was a mad idea that floated in my head, I'll be shelving it for a while!

You thinking of moving on from the 4 series Joe or just bored ?!
I think the only dealer that will appreciate the spec of your car is a Bmw garage and they will still try and screw you anyway.
Dealers want it every way. Buy low sell high.

JoeA3

carsfan2 wrote: »

You thinking of moving on from the 4 series Joe or just bored ?!
I think the only dealer that will appreciate the spec of your car is a Bmw garage and they will still try and screw you anyway.
Dealers want it every way. Buy low sell high.

I agree with you on both counts.

I wasn't seriously considering it tbh, it was more out of morbid curiosity to see what it would cost. The numbers quoted made it a total non runner in any event. In fact they admitted a brand new one would probably work out cheaper. The finance rates they were talking about were off the wall too. 7% PCP or something like that.

dar83

JoeA3 wrote: »

The numbers quoted made it a total non runner in any event. In fact they admitted a brand new one would probably work out cheaper. The finance rates they were talking about were off the wall too. 7% PCP or something like that.

I had the same experience when i went to look at an R that Airside VW had a while ago. lovely spec and the exact colour I wanted as well (LSG). Sat down with the salesman who lowballed me on my own car and then worked out some finance figures that came back with me putting down a few thousand as well as then paying 600pm with a 12k balloon payment at the end. His near exact words when I mentioned a new one would probably cost me less were "yeah, it would make more sense, makes more sense for me as well". And yeah, 6.9% was what was offered as the finance rate on that one.

He did call me the next day to see if I had thought over their numbers and wanted to proceed with the deal, but I politely declined on it due to sanity reasons.

JoeA3

OSI wrote: »

What the f*** are they planning to do with the second hand cars they must be hoarding if they're making it cheaper to buy new ones instead.

Yeah its crazy. The Seat dealer told me they couldn't offer cheaper VW Bank finance as they aren't a VW dealer and VW do not offer incentives like that to non franchise dealers... WTF. Isn't SEAT under the same umbrella company FFS.

On brand new cars you have cheap PCP finance (zero % in some cases), deposit contributions, new car discounts, new car smell, etc, etc... so a nearly-new one is a very hard sell indeed.

DaveyDave

I don't understand the sales tactics. Not wanting to discount a premium priced car but probably make a ton from people buying LifeShine packs, tyres/wipers and selling full price cars.

drunkmonkey

There not discounting it as there's no such thing as free money....aka 0% finance baloney.

Anthonylfc

just got approved for a loan :cool:

anybody selling any nice GTD or GTI for under 20k ?

JoeA3

Anthonylfc wrote: »

just got approved for a loan :cool:

anybody selling any nice GTD or GTI for under 20k ?

Hold on, I'm sure an orderly queue will form in here any minute now... :rolleyes:

Squidgy Black

Anthonylfc wrote: »

just got approved for a loan :cool:

anybody selling any nice GTD or GTI for under 20k ?

https://www.donedeal.ie/

hooch-85

Price up bringing in a decent spec car from UK and see how far your less than 20k will go.

drunkmonkey

hooch-85 wrote: »

Price up bringing in a decent spec car from UK and see how far your less than 20k will go.

Looks like little damage here, runs and drives and has a key...loads of stolen recovered pop up on copart...could save a fortune.

https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/27687189

dar83

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Looks like little damage here, runs and drives and has a key...loads of stolen recovered pop up on copart...could save a fortune.

https://www.copart.co.uk/lot/27687189

Only guessing from the damage listing (secondary: all over) and the drivers footwell you can spot a little bit in a pic, but I think that was at potentially a quarter/half swimmer. Might be a lot of money to sort out the interior if that was the case.

ondafly

dar83 wrote: »

Only guessing from the damage listing (secondary: all over) and the drivers footwell you can spot a little bit in a pic, but I think that was at potentially a quarter/half swimmer. Might be a lot of money to sort out the interior if that was the case.

you reckon a front left clip ?, windscreen cracked there, and looks trim around the passenger door loose. The steering wheel looks off in this shot, but always impossible to tell in photos

hooch-85

Less than a thousand miles on that car. What a shame