All those bargain end of Lease Golf R's ?

All those bargain end of Lease Golf R's ?

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hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Thursday 12th January 2017
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J4CKO said:
He just posted a picture of him picking up a Golf from the same dealers, it had a cover over it and was silver, not black.

It had these wheels on,



They arent R wheels are they, GTI upgrade from the standard ones ?
How tiny are those disks hehe

daemon

35,724 posts

196 months

Thursday 12th January 2017
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aka_kerrly said:
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That's one of the best comments I've seen in a while, you don't want a Golf R because it's "council" but your ideal Golf is a white TDI laugh
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va1o

16,029 posts

206 months

Thursday 12th January 2017
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ToothbrushMan said:
they might be cheap off lease but at the given mileages what bills are around the corner with these cars?
and those fitted with DCC -how much is one damper if its shot?
i'd also dread to pick one up where the DSG box has been raped. how much are them to replace out of warranty......
buyer beware......these arent Ford Mondeo's.
They'll all still be under warranty as 2-year leases. Dsg is fine as long as it's had the 40k oil change

J4CKO

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41,287 posts

199 months

Thursday 12th January 2017
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ToothbrushMan said:
they might be cheap off lease but at the given mileages what bills are around the corner with these cars?
and those fitted with DCC -how much is one damper if its shot?
i'd also dread to pick one up where the DSG box has been raped. how much are them to replace out of warranty......
buyer beware......these arent Ford Mondeo's.
Yeah best not buy any fast car, it may break, I will buy a 2010 Yaris 1.3 and scoff at all the idiots in Golf R's whilst I cannily avoid any kind of expenditure.

There are DSG specialists about now if its been "Raped" (what a pleasant turn of phrase), if the DCC breaks and is expensive, then a set of quality coilovers is purchased and fitted, my Mercedes has air suspension anyway.

Would love to know what you drive based on that post.







Hitch

6,101 posts

193 months

Thursday 12th January 2017
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But many Ford Mondeos come with 2.0 turbocharged engines, AWD systems and dual clutch gearboxes!

nickfrog

20,874 posts

216 months

Friday 13th January 2017
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ToothbrushMan said:
and those fitted with DCC -how much is one damper if its shot? i'd also dread to pick one up where the DSG box has been raped
Simple fix : pick a manual with passive dampers.

MuscleSaloon

1,541 posts

174 months

Friday 13th January 2017
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nickfrog said:
ToothbrushMan said:
and those fitted with DCC -how much is one damper if its shot? i'd also dread to pick one up where the DSG box has been raped
Simple fix : pick a manual with passive dampers.
Or find one with 5 year factory warranty wink

trowelhead

1,867 posts

120 months

Monday 23rd January 2017
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Q Car said:
Hmmm, had my R Estate for exactly 28 days. Then some nice gentlemen came round to the house at 2.15pm on Thursday afternoon in October, ripped the back patio door out with crow bars, turned the house upside down looking for the keys and took it for a nice shopping spree in Liverpool. They did three post offices and discharged firearms at two of them. The car was somehow recovered by the police from a hotel car park 48 hours later on false plates. My New Best Mate DC Dave in the Serious Crime Squad then impounded it for two weeks while a temporary key was obtained from the factory (can't submit the evidence if we break in) and then went over every micron of the car for another week as it was the only piece of evidence in two attempted murder cases. As he later said to me "These are the perfect car for armed robberies - nice heated seat for the driver, plenty of room for three more crims, massive boot for sorn off's and cash bags and unless the 'copter is already in the air and in the area, we don't stand a chance of keeping up."

The crime squad officer who came to the house to dust everything said he'd done 13 similar that week - all Golf R's and S3's apart from one M3 in South Manchester.

There's only two good things about this situation in that we were all out of the house and over 100 miles away when it happened and the police have contacted VWFS to advise them that we shouldn't have the car back due to the nature of what it's been used for.

Kids having nightmares. Wife scared to be left alone in the house. Utter nightmare.
Bloody hell mate that sounds horrific.