Time to part with the old girl..

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:01 pm

glad everything went smoothly mate! make sure you get some pics up pronto!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:40 pm

DanDiesel wrote: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??

Yeah, it was freezing, and I forgot my coat! Waiting around at the station was not fun

Mk2Adam wrote: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 Laughing

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?

I know, the seller was suprised I was just going to turn up and drive it half way round london in the dark, but hey, nothing to lose

Guess I'm just a bit complacent with older cars after the polo, drove that for many many miles at a time without a hiccup - probably would have been wise to be a bit more cautious with an unfamiliar car though

Scirocco certainly should be on your list of cars to own.. unless you happen to like carrying passengers (I can't sit up straight on the back seat, I'm only 5'11..). It's good enough that my dad took it out earlier and it's got him thinking about buying a mk2 golf gti (rocco's give him a bad back..) to replace his MG ZS

Specs on the 1.8i are the about same as the Golf GTi:
112.0 BHP (121.74bhp/tonne)
0-60 in 9.6 seconds
Top speed ~ 120mph
Reasonably cheap to run as well, I averaged 35.6mpg on the way back and that was not a very smooth drive being unfamiliar with the car. I recon if I took it gently it'd be good for about 40mpg on a motorway cruise, which is about what my polo gave me

SpikeyG40 wrote:glad everything went smoothly mate! make sure you get some pics up pronto!

I'll get pics up the moment I get back to reading tomorrow afternoon. Stupidly forgot to bring my digicam with me, so it may have picked up a bit of motorway grime by then

Shining like a new penny at the moment though

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 7:58 pm

cool

i picked my G40 up for stratford in london. drove it all the way home from there. quite a long trip suprising i hadn't even driven the beast before hand! i went to see the car, had a look around it etc. then went home again, offered a price, haggled, then picked it up a few weeks after xmas after a couple of jobs had been done! the old owners were kind enough to pick my dad and i up from the station too!

o and that was my first time driving in london!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:57 am

bling mate, totally........

but..... PICS!!!

and maybe some sound recordings hehe

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:22 am

Sound recordings are the moment would just pick up a rather nasty grinding sound from the fuel pump

But I'll get that fixed later, will see what I can do

Btw, correction to the above specs:
0-60: 8.3secs
112.5lb.ft / 153 Nm torque (3500rpm)
118mph top speed
Fuel consumption: 28.5mpg urban / 50.4mpg at 56mph / 39.2mpg at 75mph.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:42 pm

Got a couple of photos for you.. taken as daylight was starting to give out though so they're pretty awful quality. I'll get some better ones tomorrow. Here they are anyway:

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:52 pm

looks cool GC, needs a bit of treatment but by the way you cleaned your polo up i'm guessing it'll be looking mint within a year.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:50 pm

Yeah, I'll get it sorted pretty quickly, there's really not much to do at all. Couple of tiny chips / scratches that need filling in, need to fit a stereo (will just take the one out of the polo and replace it with the original system), need to get the tracking/alignment done, the wheels need refurbishing, and the engine bay could do with a clean up, but that's just about all. I'd say it's pretty immaculate for a 118,000 mile car

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:02 pm

if your refurbishing the alloys yourself i'd recommend that you don't lol pay someone else...just doing the last finishing touches to my polished scalas and they've taken sooooo much work

SpikeyG40 · Post by **SpikeyG40** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:14 pm

good looking car mate, a real gem! engine looks so small in that engine bay!

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:03 pm

Mk2Adam wrote:if your refurbishing the alloys yourself i'd recommend that you don't lol pay someone else...just doing the last finishing touches to my polished scalas and they've taken sooooo much work

Hah, no, after trying to refurb a set of 9 spokes last year I'm not going there again - huge amount of effort for a pretty shoddy finish. Plus, the scalas are diamond cut so polishing them would be a right pain. I'll just have to leave them until I've got enough money to have them professionally done.. going to make them quite a high priority though, don't want them to corrode too far

SpikeyG40 wrote:good looking car mate, a real gem! engine looks so small in that engine bay!

Cheers

Big old engine bay compared to the polo, isn't it

Having a hell of a time getting my head around that engine though.. I'd got so familiar with the polo's engine having dismantled it, I just don't know where to start with this! I think a good clean and tidy is in order before I go much further though

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:16 pm

GroovyCarrot wrote:Plus, the scalas are diamond cut so polishing them would be a right pain. I'll just have to leave them until I've got enough money to have them professionally done.. going to make them quite a high priority though, don't want them to corrode too far

tell me about it! mine were diamond cut with laquer and i spent bout 80% of my total refurb time sanding down the alloys about 1mm all over, absolute nightmare, plus it compramised the finish of it too meaning spending about double the time polishing to make it presentable

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:32 am

Nasty

Definately I think I'll be leaving this one to the professionals for once, just can't bring myself to spend that much time sanding and polishing again.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:01 pm

Got some half decent photos now, sorry about the quality of the last ones:

Gave someone a ride in it earlier, he said he felt like he was in a 1980's police movie

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:07 pm

those pics look sexy mate, other pics didn't do it justice...looks mint there