totally offtopic, but audi knowers

[Tahrey1043]

Getting slightly more serious about this now, even if i get cold feet and all i'm doing is buying a "long term lease" car for some relatives coming over, to sell on in a few months.... I just went hunting for cars around my area and turned up some nice 80s/A4s. Kind of the anti-polos (5 doors, big engines, all electric) but worth a shot to see how the other side live while still keeping some of the spirit (VAG, not too big - it's a jetta under there, y'think? - still kinda sporty without being lardy...)
...what do you think of the second, fifth and sixth (and last) cars off this autotrader link?

turned it into a titled link as the address broke the page!

(of course it may all be different tomorrow, i'll have to recheck)
1st - last car on this page. Looks sweet, despite a lack of pic and 160k miles. Lots of toys and IIRC still only about £1050 insurance. N-reg any good for 2 grand?

5th and 6th seem to be broken links even though they worked when i had it on cheapest to most expensive. £1800 each, both L reg, both TDi, both loaded with toys - not sure which is better really, though more taken with metallic green than silver.

... and also the last one on that AT page. Looks a bit dodgy to me - 1.6 TD? In white as well = minicab.... though it has "only" done 118k for a G-plate. (But, £1295??? pricey..?) --- website link, oddly looks very similar to the other site.


or even, the cheapest one around... this link for cheapest to most expensive, and the first one.
£400, very few details but i think i can extract the reg num from that to hunt. Looks clean at that angle, but is there anything that might stop it getting thru the MOT I wonder... 17 miles and no map provided, tch tch.

and theres a few other decent looking ones in between, around £1000 and £1300...

Or is this whole thing a big nonsense as they're actually crap? And be better to get a 5-door mk4, or some totally different car?

Just in case you think im a one trick autotrader pony.... plenty of pollys about in the local area - let's play spot the storm grey GT!
or spot the glut of affordable (but overpriced?) dragon green 5-door mk4s - not to mention the cherry red "open air" (cool..)
and as a bit of fun... the astra at the bottom of this page is being sold by Kev's Motor Company. Ahem.

[metz]

personnally i'd go for the 5th (green coupe) that is a lot of car for little money.
Mates bird has one (only 2.0 e though not v6) and you could fit 3 bodies in the boot theyre that big...the whole car has a made like a tank feel but goes like the clappers. (what is the clappers anyway and how does it go?)

as for re-sale value i would have thought the coupe would have held its value better too. The big engined ones are becoming almost as collectable as the early 5 cyclinder coupe's.

[Gareth_GT_Hatch]

1.6 TD is a good engine, used in the mk2 golf and early passats. Very reliable Has 80bhp iirc so nothing special. should be faster than the 1.6 petrol though.

I dont know where that storm grey GT is but go and have a look at that ranger on page two for me. I want to know if its got a sunroof. Its alot nearer you than me (85 from me)

[GroovyCarrot]

Spot the '88 Polo C squareback for £1,100! Who the hell does he think he's kidding?
Fair play, it's somehow only clocked up 13,000 miles in 16 years, but still.. that's insane!

[Tahrey1043]

quick reply i'll probably have to edit:

metzy i seriously can't afford the insurance on an audi coupe, it's mental money like over two grand. total pain in the arse, but there you go - insurnace dictated my first car and it may well my second. only now not as badly.

that's why i only suggested the ones i did you think I wouldn't be out G40 chasing if the insurance wasn't balls?

i guess i'll leave such sweet looking fastback shenanigans til im 25?
there's a late 80s 2.3 GT one kicking about somewhere as well.

80hp i think would be fine for now, unless of course the car weighs 1.8x that of a polo or more!

edit (yep)
and starting again, to groovy:
yeah, but it's got at least two of those trims you want! and as far as mk2s go i bet its mint as f***!

or the K-reg 1.3 CL for all of two grand! SOMEONE's gonna be SORELY dissapointed whether that sells or it doesnt!

the 1.6 deep blue P-reg Classic just above it (on the current link as of midnight-40 9-10-04) looks sweet-as though, 66k with a small ration of toys, also 2 grand but maybe worth a larger fraction of that. might investigate and try for £1500 if this becomes serious... (risdale.. wonder where that is)

and the ranger is still 20 miles away - far enough for me to not know what that phone area code is! though i have the guys name from his email... Tim Hargest... a slight possibilty he runs a place called "Hargest motors" that can be googled?

[metz]

think i looked at the wrong cars then lol, 5th one down on page 5 was the audi coupe to me.
I thought thats what u meant..forget my ramblings then

[GroovyCarrot]

Area code search:
http://www.brainstorm.co.uk/uk_std_code_search.htm

That may help

[The Drummer]

Depends on what you want really. I am now selling my Polo, and going to buy a MK2 Golf GTi, nice! My guitarist's wife has owned it for about 7 years now, and wants to sell it on. Full VW service history. Just need to sell my Polo now.

[Tahrey1043]

heh i was just wondering if anyone on here knew much about them, e.g. if the ones i was looking at were any cop in the grand scheme of things really

autotrader's (and for that matter, motor mart's) java-based system that doesnt allow you to get a proper web address out for the individual cars has just shown itself to be a complete pain in the titulars... can't reliably show them to anyone or save them for looking back later in the day... seeing as the stuff changes often.

("next time" i guess screen captures would be a better idea.. not pasted direct into the thread, but hosted & linked.)