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Please tell me you haven't sold your awesome Mustang and bought a common lease magnet GolfJust a Golf:
even though it's probably quicker surely that's a massive downgrade?
Please tell me you haven't sold your awesome Mustang and bought a common lease magnet Golf
Yes he has done that.
... (dont tell him)
Gibbo, thats not an RS4!
He got confused by the number of exhausts.
What made you go for one on ditchfinder tyres with pressed plates?
Not many 3DR, Lapiz blue, DSG ones available, seems they are nearly all 5DR manuals. Only really like the blue, other colours are a bit meh, grey is nice but seems none existent. Plus I got it quite a bit under 20k, so relative bargain but at the expense of needing new brakes (front) and being on junk tyres. Brand new VW brakes, PS4 tyres all round is under a grand, just and the rest of the car is spotless.
Oh and yes the plates need to go! You know a good site I can order new ones from please?
Please tell me you haven't sold your awesome Mustang and bought a common lease magnet Golf
Another Mustang is ordered and due for delivery April, GT, 10-speed auto, this will be traded against that or sold privately prior to taking delivery. Unless this grows on me in which case I might keep it along with Mustang and M3.
Gibbo, thats not an RS4!
Nope, its the much faster smaller cousin.
No it is an RS4, the guy selling it me told me some kids stole the S4 part of the badge, he's not pulled a blinder on me has he?
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How can the brakes be ruined after just 3 years and who puts ditchfinders on a 3 year old golf?
People who know nothing about cars maybe who just arrive at the garage and say 4 tyres mate. This is a mass produced hatch, not every person buying a car understands a car or really cares. Its not being driven hard, spent most of its life going up and down the motorway. Second owner has not really use it all, did a road trip in it to Europe which finished the brakes of no doubt and its being sitting in his garage for months not being used apart from odd weekend out and he was same, just enjoys driving but has no understanding of tyres etc, he just puts fuel in and checks oil.
The brakes work, the front disc have gone, massive lip on them and a lot of deposits and scoring. Grabbed myself brakes all round for it for £100, mate has done RS5 brake conversion on his and so he took his off which have less than 1000 miles and is letting me have for a ton. A set of PS4 all round are £550 and I am getting the DSG service done early (£160) and Haldex service (£70) just to not get any nasty surprises, its just had a major service so all good.
Oh and its mapped too, saves me the cost, nice little rocket.
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Just being looking and quite surprised how cheap these have gotten. I guess all those lease deals are starting to flood the market.
Even though your new Mustang will obviously be a far better car and will probably have nearly double the horsepower of the Golf are u not slightly worried u might get in the heavier Mustang and find the performance slightly underwhelming because a mapped R is seriously quick off the mark and in real world driving can be driven flat out and keep up with nearly anything on public roads.
You have no idea what your on about
Rear ones keep dislodging
Yes, 5DR manuals are peanuts especially in red. 3DR DSG is rarer, this was 100% a lease car I reckon as like I say first owner just did motorways and a lot of mileage in first couple of years, 2nd owner did around 3000 in over a year.
Why I went with most desirable spec and tried to get bottom end of the market price as possible, so come moving it on time I should not loose much, already had two people asking me to give them first refusal, so won't be hard to move it on.
They are different, not going to speak handling as the tyres on this have shocking lateral grip, none existent in the wet. The M3 would absolutely kill it in corners in the wet, but a lot of it down to tyres I suspect.
Yes this is a rocket ship but its quite dull to drive, need to drive it hard in the dry to be really fair, but the way this accelerates is OK, strong torque, turbo wave woosh type stuff, but its no NA V8 which revs and builds power with RPM this though it pulls to 7000rpm really well, surprisingly well the power band just feels kind of flat too due to it having like 400lb/ft from around 2500-6000rpm so you can floor it in 6th at 70mph, pull the paddle down one and the acceleration does not change much as its riding a huge torque curve and is off, the in-gear acceleration even in 6th at 70mph is insanely good, its without doubt quicker than my EVO when it had 415HP, a lot quicker, really makes not a lot of sense why its so quick, but I guess its loosing less power as primarily FWD and its lighter and the DSG is rapid.
But you never ever bore of NA V8 and on a roll the Mustang would do 60-100 in 4.8s, whereas the Golf is around 5.5s, the Golf is obviously much quicker to 60 at sub 4s with LC.
But yes this thing would keep up with most things on the road, as it puts its power down very well, just not too bright in the corners due to lack of grip from dodgy tyres. But its a lovely thing to drive and the turbo rips your face off, infact really like it, feels kind of old school.
Forza Motorsport isn't the real world.
Get factory ones then instead of ebay tat.
Mazda make them??
Will have a look.
As much as i do joke about how girly a golf is, that blue Golf R is lovely. Look forward to see how it shifts.
Is it a stop gap until the new stang or will you keep it along side it? Remember you saying you might keep the old Mustang.
@Gibbo
Is it a stop gap until the new stang or will you keep it along side it? Remember you saying you might keep the old Mustang.
@Gibbo