Time to part with the old girl..

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:55 pm

oh rite yeah i know, u going to sandwich station or is there a station in eastry??

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 2:23 pm

I'm going to Sandwich station, and the seller is giving me a lift back from the station, he said it wasn't very far away at all.

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:34 pm

ah thats good of him mate, they r nice people in sandwich, half my family lives ova there!!

hypojam · Post by **hypojam** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:19 pm

I live 3 miles from sandwich

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:57 am

Quite a little community over there

Well, keep your eyes peeled for a white rocco on saturday evening

polokris · Post by **polokris** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:43 am

G C!!!!!!!

iv just read this post!!

gutting to c the polo going!! wot a shame!!

but atleast u stayed Dub!! (seen that on Ebay the other day!

)

well... stick around..... make sure u go to the meets.... coz as far as im concerned..... u are a legend on this forum!!

Kris

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:25 am

Aww, cheers

I'll definately stick around - the scirocco scene seems a bit quiet from what I've found so far (obviously there aren't really many of them around any more..) so I could do with a lively VW community like this

I think I may have found a buyer for the polo, she's a friend of mine so it won't be going far away.. still sad to part with it, but at least this way I know it'll be going to someone I trust not to thrash it and scrap it.

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:25 pm

hypojam wrote:I live 3 miles from sandwich

where abouts mate??

hypojam · Post by **hypojam** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 7:39 pm

Right next to Ramsgate, In the little village of Cliffsend

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:43 am

make sure you let us know when you get ya rocco GC...and i'm defo interested in a few compatibilty bits...e.g are the actual heater control buttons the same as the mk2's?

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:18 am

I'll let you know.. should be picking it up this afternoon, although apparently the fuel pump's just become extremely noisy so it may have to wait if he can't get that repaired this morning

Fingers crossed though

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:59 pm

hypojam wrote:Right next to Ramsgate, In the little village of Cliffsend

haha sooo close to me and doug, we live up in ramsgate, just up the road from the swimming pool!!

GC i hope everything goes well with collecting the car!! actually ur probably down this way at the moment!!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 10:29 pm

Indeed, as you posted that I was standing in the freezing cold at Sandwich station waiting for the seller to come pick me up

I've got the rocco now though - wow! What a car. Everything about it (other than the wheel alignment which insisted on dragging me off into the central reservation the entire way home..) is immaculate. Not a spot of rust on the car, the bodywork is pristine, the engine is phenomenal (1.05 polo -> 1.8i scirocco is one hell of a leap, I found it impossible to hold a steady speed on the motorway as every little twitch of the throttle sent me hurtling away at silly speeds

). Whilst I still regret not bringing out the full potential of the polo with a GT engine etc, I don't regret getting the rocco at all, it's fantastic

DanDiesel · Post by **DanDiesel** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:45 am

thats good to hear GC, glad u like the rocco!! it was cold down here yesterday!! was it trying to snow whilst u wre down??

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 2:42 pm

nice to hear GC, i don't think i'd be brave enough to buy a car on ebay and be relying on it to drive me like 150 miles home, especially since the guy had told you he had a few probs that he hopes he could fix before you arrived

scirocco is definetely on my list of cars that i wanna own in my lifetime, anyone know what kindof performance you get in a 1.8 scirocco e.g bhp, 0-60 and top speed?