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The Mega Mk7 Golf GTI/GTD/R thread

carsfan

Any body with either of these able to advise on what the real world economy is of these?
There is not much between them in purchase price.
The gtd 625 euro more.
I do 25000km a year and really would prefer the gti but my head tells me the gtd is what I should be looking at.
I've only driven the gti and found it very entertaining.
Dealer says resale is the same for both of them. There is only 90 euro difference in road tax and insurance the same so fuel costs are the main financial difference.

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SaintsYB

Whoops, that's my bad. I thought it was £500 per wheel. I wouldn't want to have been ordering them and having 16 wheels show up haha.

Slippin Jimmy

Rusky rusky wrote: »

Does your phone connect to cars WiFi?

Yes it does. Setup a hotspot.

hooch-85

Tidy looking R estate, a poster on here was looking for one recently
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volkswagen-golf-r/22679961

tossy

hooch-85 wrote: »

Tidy looking R estate, a poster on here was looking for one recently
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volkswagen-golf-r/22679961

Tempted ?

hooch-85

tossy wrote: »

Tempted ?

I'm always tempted, I wouldn't go for an estate though.

DaveyDave

hooch-85 wrote: »

Where's 2k coming from? They are £500 for a set in the link above.

Ah, wheels are usually priced individually

Muppet Man

hooch-85 wrote: »

Tidy looking R estate, a poster on here was looking for one recently
https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/volkswagen-golf-r/22679961

Strong money though for a private sale 3 year old, no?

hooch-85

Probably is alright. I haven't done the sums one bringing in though so it might not be too far off

tossy

Price is probably not far off the going rate for a good one, it's the private sale part that will hurt him. Plus people in this country rarely see the value in a good car even among the enthusiastic community so many people don't see merits of paying the going rate for a good car.

DaveyDave

I know they have to be imported and all but you'd get a hatch from a main dealer for less with a bit of warranty and finance options, I'd say that would be a hard sell, as nice as it is.

Also there's a 2016 GTI on Matador tyres, tut tut!

SaintsYB

DaveyDave wrote: »

Also there's a 2016 GTI on Matador tyres, tut tut!

Blasphemy!

duskyjoe

Just got my GTD remapped with the Revo stage 1. Thanks Ciaran! It’s just torque upon torque.... i thought it would be frenetic re power deliver but it’s really top notch. Got my dsg / water pump / timing belt all done at the same time. Cars a keeper and it doesn’t stand out like the Gti with all the red go faster stripes etc. Stonking motorway performance. If you have a Gtd and it’s a keeper well I’d be doing this work, not cheap but feck it.

hooch-85

Where did you get it done? Stage 1 makes a nice difference alright but at the same time they are still a diesel, I know I'd prefer a stage 1 GTi any day

maddness

I currently have a high power diesel that’s had a great remap and wile it’s very impressive it’s not a patch on a similar power petrol. In saying that if you need the economy it’s a great compromise.

hooch-85

The 435d? My mate has a tuned one too, got a spin in it last weekend, very impressive to be fair.

JoeA3

For those looking at sourcing a set of pretorias, I just saw a genuine set go up on Autostadt Marketplace - refurbed to gloss black. €1750 with tyres.

duskyjoe

hooch-85 wrote: »

Where did you get it done? Stage 1 makes a nice difference alright but at the same time they are still a diesel, I know I'd prefer a stage 1 GTi any day

Larkin Automotive Finglas- Ciaran the owner a top bloke and all my stuff will be going thru him going forward - and I know my stuff

hooch-85

duskyjoe wrote: »

Larkin Automotive Finglas- Ciaran the owner a top bloke and all my stuff will be going thru him going forward - and I know my stuff

So it was a custom remap then not a Revo map. Dalton's in portlaoise and Golden's in Cork are the only Revo agents on the south as far as I know.

Edit just checked their page and see they are doing Revo remaps, wasn't aware of this&#55357;&#56397;

ChuckLarry

duskyjoe wrote: »

Just got my GTD remapped with the Revo stage 1. Thanks Ciaran! It’s just torque upon torque.... i thought it would be frenetic re power deliver but it’s really top notch. Got my dsg / water pump / timing belt all done at the same time. Cars a keeper and it doesn’t stand out like the Gti with all the red go faster stripes etc. Stonking motorway performance. If you have a Gtd and it’s a keeper well I’d be doing this work, not cheap but feck it.

How did you approach the whole insurance situation? Tell them or keep it on the DL?

drunkmonkey

Just got my insurance renewal, 535 on a 172 GTI with fully comp, window insurance and No claims bonus insured. 20+ years no claims, anyone doing better than that?

dar83

I doubt it, lock it down!

Slippin Jimmy

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Just got my insurance renewal, 535 on a 172 GTI with fully comp, window insurance and No claims bonus insured. 20+ years no claims, anyone doing better than that?

What company was that with drunkmonkey?

drunkmonkey

AXA

Reckless Abandonment

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Just got my insurance renewal, 535 on a 172 GTI with fully comp, window insurance and No claims bonus insured. 20+ years no claims, anyone doing better than that?

Try post insurance. Brother got a great pice on I30n .

JoeA3

Like many, I don't get insurance companies. Never pay the figure in your initial renewal anyway, that's for sure.

Mine came through a few weeks ago. €625. So I entered my details in all the other usual suspects and most were actually more expensive but one came back cheaper at €575.

So I called my current crowd and explained:

1. I have recently changed address.
2. I'm getting a cheaper quote elsewhere.

He tapped away on his keyboard for a minute and told me the address change actually increased premium slightly to €634! But... somehow I qualify for a 10% discount so that brings me back to €575. Same figure as my cheapest quote elsewhere. What a coincidence!

So I asked him if I never bothered ringing and just coughed up the original price, would they have refunded me the 10%? He obviously didn't have a straight answer for that...

They're out and out gangsters IMO.

DaveyDave

My renewal was nearly €100 more than doing it as a new customer, the renewal was €1,100.

[Deleted User]

I’ve been with 123 for years as they were always the cheapest (often by a distance) on the mk5 Gti.

I wasn’t even going to bother the insurance quoting roulette but just said I would and to my astonishment a lot of companies, some who have come back with everything from mad above 1k per year quotes to refusal to quote, were cheaper. I’d say aviva never quoted me less than 1k and they were around 700 this year, FBD were similar, Axa a little more and similar to 123. Liberty refused to quote online so went no further but then Allianz were 622 for their maximum cover policy.

If I went for a like for like policy to the ones I’ve always had it would have been around the 600 but the fully protected no claims was so little extra and the quote was still a good bit less than the others (which didn’t have full protection) that I went for it. The only slightly unusual thing compared to other policies is that your spouse is not automatically covered and has to be added as a named driver which could in some situation be a bit of a pain.

I’ve never had any issue insuring the Gti and always appear to be paying less than friends/family with similar driving history but driving much more run of the mill cars. I paid 470 one year with 123 but and was paying mid 500’s for many years.

Killinator

I was 775 to insure my R32 which was a 3.2 2008 worth 9,000 and now I'm paying marginally less, 750 to insure a 2015 R worth 27,000.

Previous to that I was paying 600 on a 1.6 2004 avenis and before that I couldn't get insured on a 1.2 2002 punto after going from a 2005 GTI where I paid 1,100

The GTI, Punto and Avensis were all within the space of 2 years, and it still jumped madly.

Never claimed and currently 11 years driving exp

It's roulette!
There's no consistency whatsoever

Phileas Frog

Other than the colour, and the fact that it's sitting in the yard for 2 years is there anything wrong with that GTi in Western Motors? What's the spec level like?

JoeA3

Phileas Frog wrote: »

Other than the colour, and the fact that it's sitting in the yard for 2 years is there anything wrong with that GTi in Western Motors? What's the spec level like?

Big spec on it. Pro Nav, sunroof, dynaudio, keyless... maybe a few other bits.

I see they've dropped another few K off the asking. Nothing wrong with it at all afaik, if you're happy with the colour. Looks better in the metal imo than those poor enough photos on carzone.