DC2 Type R owners please :)

I think when I buy one the first road I'll head for is the A272, one used on the southern meets, its just awesome :D
 
So are these quick. I dont want to ruin the thread with everyone jumping on me again but would one of these be a good alternative to an e36 m3 ?

Unfortunatly every dc2 i find in plymouth has been modified rather badly.
 
twoblacklines said:
So are these quick. I dont want to ruin the thread with everyone jumping on me again but would one of these be a good alternative to an e36 m3 ?

Unfortunatly every dc2 i find in plymouth has been modified rather badly.
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Going out in one shortly, so can't quite comment.

But two totally different cars, you don't get luxuries with the DC2, the same amount of power, FWD but they are a proper drivers car much like the M3.

With your budget though, I would turn my head to the DC2.

All depends what you want from a car really. As your other thread went, I wouldn't like to own one on that budget.
 
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was a bit of a beast this one iirc. sold not long ago.

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twoblacklines said:
So are these quick. I dont want to ruin the thread with everyone jumping on me again but would one of these be a good alternative to an e36 m3 ?

Unfortunatly every dc2 i find in plymouth has been modified rather badly.
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I'l be civil, don't worry :D

Hoenstly they can be cheap to maintain or they can be very expensive. The cheap ones would be pure luck tbh.

That £8.5k is a ridiculous price, mahoosive scene tax. £6k should be the limit for a very very tidy one and for that I would expect the bushes to have been done plus new dampers+springs/coilovers, no rusty arches, newish clutch, cambelt+tensioner+waterpump recently too. Not many liek that though and there is always a compromise.

Mine for example felt fine on the 3 test drives, and although I didn't drive it, I got him to give it a good going over. But still the day I drove it home the gearbox started to crunch. Now the costs for mine so far:

~£4k to buy a 73k UK car.
- £1300-1500 for gearbox rebuild at a guess including new OEM clutch and lightweight flywheel.
- Cambelt/tensioner/waterpump as over 5 yrs old ~£250
- Engine mounts shot x3 (£120 from singapore) + no real labour as gearbox already out.
- Rust arch on one side ~£300.

And I have owned it since the end of feb. Front bumper also needs a respray, especially the front splitter to get it up to my standards, but otherwise seems solid and great fun. Will be putting new MeisterR coilovers on in the summer as they cost less than OEM honda and will be better, might look at bushes (£300 self or £600-£2k for garage), and will also renew all the pads+discs which are actaully cheap as chips - EBC blanks ~140 and axxis/hawk pads ~£80-180.

Scrap my first comment about them being cheap, these are 10-12yr old cars now and WILL need work doing on them to bring them back to and keep them in their best form. Not a play thing to just throw away and abuse.

Your passat looks like a poundland garage special compared to a Teg looked after enthsiastically :D
 
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