Well here I am again with yet another car in the hunt for reliability if there is such a thing.
So some history.....
So the last car which is currently for sale as is as I just want it gone. A lesson learned but it shouldn't have happened after speaking to many people this should have been a solid car. After spending some money on it and clearing one lot of problems and then led into another problem. After some messing around and spent some more money I didn't have my girlfriend and her parents decided enough is enough and went about and we came across the one I know own.
Car before was a Honda jazz but as that was the exs car it had to go. Which I broke even on. The mondeo titanium Xsport I had was a wicked car except I had warranty issues which then lead to issues with a main dealer which I got banned from for causing too much of an issue. Got what I wanted it of them though. I broke even on that car too which was good.
So story time over it's time for the new edition. I say new I have had it nearly a month and put 1500 miles in it already.
So what car is it I hear you asking??? Well I've gone VAG. Never had a VW and this car came up and I had to have it.
It's a VW Golf Mk6 estate 2012 1.6tdi 105blue motion. 50900 miles.
Car has fully history with VW and has been well looked after. It had a knock which was sorted out and over all condition is excellent.
Got 500 knocked off it and final purchase price was 4500!! This was a genuine sale from a genuine person who didn't have the use for it anymore. As it was over 100 miles away from me I got one of the pre buy inspections carried out. I used a company called click mechanic. It cost me 118 pounds and well it's sure paid for itself in the money I got knocked off. He spend three hours there, plugged it in drove it and drive it while plugged in. Has it in the air covers off wheels off and lots more. Was very impressed and if I was to buy a car long distance I would definitely use that service again.
Anyways back to the car. It's the sportline edition so has a few extra bits like cruise, alloys and a few other bits.
So here is when I got it home.
Couple of weeks went passed and then went to wash it. Never had a black car but new I was going to be in for a shock.
Just as well I use two buckets!!!
I literally just washed it and nothing else while my son was in bed and it wasn't so bloody warm. Has no protection on it as I'm quite low on it but I can tell you washing had unearthed some scratches and loads of swirls and all sorts of other things black cars seem to show up.
Things that need to be done.
Two new tyre and rear discs and pads (reason for discount on purchase price)
Oil change. Hasn't long been done but it seems that these CAYC engines are a bit sensitive so regular oil changes will be done.
Car booked into VW as the car was updated with that emissions software. The car dpf regenerates pretty much every time I drive it and I had an egr fault code come up. I cleared it and didn't come back. Vw said they have seen dpf issues with this update and they will waiver any costs so the car won't cost a thing for me for them to look at it. Got a courtesy car too when it goes in which is nice. I get poor mpg too. I say poor I get 60mpg in a long motorway run where I should be getting more like 80 like some people had before all this came about. I have asked about roll back and they won't do it so in time it may go to a tuners to have it done or just mapped altogether. My dad had the same car but dsg and it went very well so I'll look into that.
Going to buy a vcds cable so I can do some coding to unlock hidden features. I did a similar thing on both of my fords. It's incredible what dealers don't turn on.
Alloys need refurb. They are diamond cut which is annoying as to do those for a set of four is 600!! But to be power coated it's 336 for a set of four 16". So may do that at some point when money alloys.
Missing a retractable parcel shelf so need one of those
And a detail. My girlfriend for my birthday bought me some gtechniq stuff and some exo so looks like I'll have to put that on the car when machined.
Other than that hopefully enjoy the reliability. So far so good except needing to go to vw.
Can't think of anything more for now. Oh car hit 52,000 miles
More to come
Ryan
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So some history.....
So the last car which is currently for sale as is as I just want it gone. A lesson learned but it shouldn't have happened after speaking to many people this should have been a solid car. After spending some money on it and clearing one lot of problems and then led into another problem. After some messing around and spent some more money I didn't have my girlfriend and her parents decided enough is enough and went about and we came across the one I know own.
Car before was a Honda jazz but as that was the exs car it had to go. Which I broke even on. The mondeo titanium Xsport I had was a wicked car except I had warranty issues which then lead to issues with a main dealer which I got banned from for causing too much of an issue. Got what I wanted it of them though. I broke even on that car too which was good.
So story time over it's time for the new edition. I say new I have had it nearly a month and put 1500 miles in it already.
So what car is it I hear you asking??? Well I've gone VAG. Never had a VW and this car came up and I had to have it.
It's a VW Golf Mk6 estate 2012 1.6tdi 105blue motion. 50900 miles.
Car has fully history with VW and has been well looked after. It had a knock which was sorted out and over all condition is excellent.
Got 500 knocked off it and final purchase price was 4500!! This was a genuine sale from a genuine person who didn't have the use for it anymore. As it was over 100 miles away from me I got one of the pre buy inspections carried out. I used a company called click mechanic. It cost me 118 pounds and well it's sure paid for itself in the money I got knocked off. He spend three hours there, plugged it in drove it and drive it while plugged in. Has it in the air covers off wheels off and lots more. Was very impressed and if I was to buy a car long distance I would definitely use that service again.
Anyways back to the car. It's the sportline edition so has a few extra bits like cruise, alloys and a few other bits.
So here is when I got it home.
Couple of weeks went passed and then went to wash it. Never had a black car but new I was going to be in for a shock.
Just as well I use two buckets!!!
I literally just washed it and nothing else while my son was in bed and it wasn't so bloody warm. Has no protection on it as I'm quite low on it but I can tell you washing had unearthed some scratches and loads of swirls and all sorts of other things black cars seem to show up.
Things that need to be done.
Two new tyre and rear discs and pads (reason for discount on purchase price)
Oil change. Hasn't long been done but it seems that these CAYC engines are a bit sensitive so regular oil changes will be done.
Car booked into VW as the car was updated with that emissions software. The car dpf regenerates pretty much every time I drive it and I had an egr fault code come up. I cleared it and didn't come back. Vw said they have seen dpf issues with this update and they will waiver any costs so the car won't cost a thing for me for them to look at it. Got a courtesy car too when it goes in which is nice. I get poor mpg too. I say poor I get 60mpg in a long motorway run where I should be getting more like 80 like some people had before all this came about. I have asked about roll back and they won't do it so in time it may go to a tuners to have it done or just mapped altogether. My dad had the same car but dsg and it went very well so I'll look into that.
Going to buy a vcds cable so I can do some coding to unlock hidden features. I did a similar thing on both of my fords. It's incredible what dealers don't turn on.
Alloys need refurb. They are diamond cut which is annoying as to do those for a set of four is 600!! But to be power coated it's 336 for a set of four 16". So may do that at some point when money alloys.
Missing a retractable parcel shelf so need one of those
And a detail. My girlfriend for my birthday bought me some gtechniq stuff and some exo so looks like I'll have to put that on the car when machined.
Other than that hopefully enjoy the reliability. So far so good except needing to go to vw.
Can't think of anything more for now. Oh car hit 52,000 miles
More to come
Ryan
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