Lifespan of a Golf?

BredaK312

Hi everybody
I have a 2010 Blue motion TDi golf. It's currently at 170,000miles (previously own by a sales rep) & I do between 10-15k per year. It seems to be running well & I service it every 10k miles give or take.

Can anyone give me a rough idea of the lifespan of a golf & whether ye think I should sell it or continue to drive it until it wears out?

Thanks

moonlighting

I had a merc 190e year 1992. Drove it for the last 10 years. Did all the maintenance myself. Cost of insurance put it off the road this year. absolutely sickened. I had invested a lot of money into spare parts and tools etc. now its all gathering dust.Also bought a donor car as-well.
Theres no way i am paying over a grand just to drive an old car as my daily. Stuck with a 2008 Toyota now.
What i am trying to say is that a well maintained car can last 30+ years easily but the insurance company's will put a stop to your plans of holding onto a car forever.

biko

Moved out from old thread.

Breda, there is no particular need to change the car unless you have too. That can may have another 100k miles in it but you will have a hard time selling it then
If you buy another you will not know what issues they may have had with it.

fancy pigeon

moonlighting wrote: »

I had a merc 190e year 1992. Drove it for the last 10 years. Did all the maintenance myself. Cost of insurance put it off the road this year. absolutely sicked. I had invested a lot of money into spare parts and tools etc. now its all gathering dust.Also bought a donor car as-well.
Theres no way i am paying over a grand just to drive an old car as my daily. Stuck with a 2008 Toyota now.
What i am trying to say is that a well maintained car can last 30+ years easily but the insurance company's will put a stop to your plans of holding onto a car forever.

Would you not put it on a classic policy and enjoy it once again?

moonlighting

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Would you not put it on a classic policy and enjoy it once again?

Costs involved in keeping and maintaining/running 2 cars puts me off.

Wibbs

moonlighting wrote: »

What i am trying to say is that a well maintained car can last 30+ years easily but the insurance company's will put a stop to your plans of holding onto a car forever.

Do not get me started ML. It angers me right the hell up. :mad::mad: It's mostly about keeping SIMI and other interested parties in gravy and the government are happy to help them out. I wouldn't mind if we were Japan, or Germany, or the US and actually had a car manufacturing industry, I could see some logic then. That's before we get to the saves polar bears "green" stuff. Given the cost to the environment of building and shipping a brand new petrol/diesel car, the 20 odd year old car has already well paid its dues* and the longer it keeps going the longer it stays away from adding to landfill. Yeah we can recycle some components, but that costs energy. How things changed from when the Ford Model T ran ad copy along the lines of "the only car you'll ever need".

That we both have an NCT that we pay for that apparently claims to make older cars safer and fit for our roads and at the same time there's a real drive to remove said cars from our roads? Answers on a postcard please...

The manufacturers could quite easily build cars regardless of motive power that could last many decades, but they don't. That would be counterproductive to the bottom line.

I'm in this scenario myself as I daily run an old car. An old car that has cost me in maintenance, all maintenance including basic servicing, well under two grand in eleven years. Or nearly what I paid in insurance to keep it on the road this year. And easily passes the very narrow criteria for petrol emissions on the NCT and returns 30 to the gallon taking it easy.





*and before the holier than thou hairshirt and muesli sandalled electric bunch chime in, yes they are better as far as operating costs to the environment, building them in the first place is quite another matter. Read up on cobalt, lithium and nickel mining and refining. Never mind we're adding more crap on top of crap and when they go end of life we add all that dodgy stuff back into the environment.

listermint

moonlighting wrote: »

Costs involved in keeping and maintaining/running 2 cars puts me off.

Get rid of the new one then....

quadrifoglio verde

listermint wrote: »

Get rid of the new one then....

Then you can't have a classic policy

Cheensbo

moonlighting wrote: »

Costs involved in keeping and maintaining/running 2 cars puts me off.

Its not so bad, my 190e costs me €300 for insurance (extended mileage so you can get it for less if you wish) + €636 for tax (1.8L) + €55 for nct. So about a grand to stay on the road -
give or take, then fuel is whatever it is..

Maintenance is lower on the w201 than any other car i have ever had.. it never needs anything bar an oil change *touches wood*

Get it on a classic policy t'fook , (and sell me some bits off your spare one :pac:)

bladespin

My last company car was a Tdi Golf with 230k miles on it, was going strong when we replaced it.

9935452

moonlighting wrote: »

Costs involved in keeping and maintaining/running 2 cars puts me off.

You dont have to run 2 cars to have a classic policy.
I believe skatedude here has a daily driver on a classic policy

BredaK312 wrote: »

Hi everybody
I have a 2010 Blue motion TDi golf. It's currently at 170,000miles (previously own by a sales rep) & I do between 10-15k per year. It seems to be running well & I service it every 10k miles give or take.

Can anyone give me a rough idea of the lifespan of a golf & whether ye think I should sell it or continue to drive it until it wears out?

Thanks

ive a 09A4 with 165k miles up and plan to keep it for a few more years.
The way i see it is firstly the car is reliable and well serviced.
The car already has high mileage so its value is already knocked .
Serviing will probably have higher costs as things wear out but the big ones like clutch flywheel egr valve dpf timing belt will come up at half that milage anyhow .
If it starts giving a lot of ****ty bits of trouble id move it on

_Brian

BredaK312 wrote: »

Hi everybody
I have a 2010 Blue motion TDi golf. It's currently at 170,000miles (previously own by a sales rep) & I do between 10-15k per year. It seems to be running well & I service it every 10k miles give or take.

Can anyone give me a rough idea of the lifespan of a golf & whether ye think I should sell it or continue to drive it until it wears out?

Thanks

I sold a golf once with 280k miles on it and it was running well and returning good mpg too, I just needed a bigger car.
Was the older simpler 1.6 MK2 Diesel, but i saw it about
For a few years after that, it ended its life up a tree one night so It never really wore out.

A well looked after diesel will do huge mileage, I'd say your good for another 100k miles.

A lot of reg plate snobbery in Ireland makes people move on from perfectly good serviceable cars when they don't need to.

beertons

My car had 17K when I bought it back in 2004. 1.9 tdi. I stopped doing big miles the year after I bought it, but kept it anyway. The steering rack is leaking on it now, things go the longer you keep things. I'm going to get a reconditioned one off Trayners, and get my mechanic to fit it. The more you mind it, the longer it will be good for you.

Moanin

beertons wrote: »

My car had 17K when I bought it back in 2004. 1.9 tdi. I stopped doing big miles the year after I bought it, but kept it anyway. The steering rack is leaking on it now, things go the longer you keep things. I'm going to get a reconditioned one off Trayners, and get my mechanic to fit it. The more you mind it, the longer it will be good for you.

Did you put power steering fluid into it recently? Normally if you put incorrect fluid into these it will cause the rack to leak.

beertons

Moanin wrote: »

Did you put power steering fluid into it recently? Normally if you put incorrect fluid into these it will cause the rack to leak.

Aye, correct fluid. He told me last week it was gonzo, so to get a new one or reconditioned. Tiresome job to fit too.