MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Ifti on January 02, 2010, 11:42:59 am
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Just wondering how many of you guys are like me and use you GTI as a daily car??
I use mine to get to work and back every day, and then to go out on weekends, since its my only car. So approx 300 miles a week. Its costing me about £50 a week, but less hassle then taking public transport, which would double my time getting to and from work!
How many of you guys use your car as a daily runner like me, or do you only bring it out on days where it wont rain etc?! lol
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Mines been out the garage three times in the last three weeks! But its not our daily :smiley:
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Im a "bring out when not raining" chap im afraid. Let the Bus, sorry Diesel Jetta take the miles!
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mines my daily runner when im not working away. i dont worry about putting miles on as thats wot its for! its a car to be driven & enjoyed! :happy2: my mate has a megane r26r but never gets it out the garage as he dont wanna put miles on it :stupid:
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Mine comes out the garage almost every day! lol
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Mines a daily runner too. I will be getting a company vehicle when I complete my apprenticeship. Just in time to upgrade my car to a GTI or maybe Ed30. Then I will be able to keep that for weekends which I am looking forward to! I dont like to drive mine to work now and park on public car parks! My car is only a 1.6 FSI as well! :signLOL: :ashamed: :happy2:
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the only other option i have wen im home is our lasses clio diesel 1.5!! i cud run faster :grin:
the gti has to come out :evilgrin:
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My GTI is a daily driver. :driver: Unfortunatley it is not me that is driving!!!! :sick:
The wife uses it for work even though her shop is under 1 mile from the house :stupid:
I drive a company passat estate during the week so it is great to get a blast in the GTI at the weekends!!!!
My car is defo for driving and enjoying. :happy2:
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Drive mine everyday - that's why I bought it :happy2:
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Daily driver here too, I bought the GTI to enjoy it.. not to lock it up. Only a 10 mile commute at the moment but I might be moving house soon which will mean ~100 miles per day, will have to see what the petrol costs are like if we go ahead with he move.
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i actually wish i was a further drive to work so i could enjoy mine more lol
i,m only 5min from work but i wanna get out there as much as poss.
mine is an 05 and still only got under 40k so loads miles left in her yet!
and she is a keeper so we,ll grow old together lol :sad1:
matsu
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Not quite a daily driver, but I do use it regularly. When I get the option I let the wife's car take the miles. :wink:
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Sort of daily driver except that I don't work so the car might do 40 miles one week and 640 the next. Regularly irregular.
I actually feel withdrawal symptoms if I don't drive her for a few days and start looking for excuses. In 78k miles in 4.5 years I have never ever felt tired of driving her. Best car I've ever owned.
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Got mine out of the garage last night for the first time in nearly four weeks. Mother Nature showed her displeasure at this act by making it snow on it (first snow we've had in Devon) then added a bit of frost to the snow, so the inside of the windscreen freeze up too. I only used the darn thing because the locks were frozen on my 12 year old daily driver, in retrospect I'd have been better off sorting the locks out on the old Ibiza as it de-frosts better than the 12 years newer Golf GTI! Feckin' screen blower on the Golf is useless at -4 deg.
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I use my K1 every day during the winter. In summer i,m generally on 2 wheels, either my sportsbikes or pedalling to work 20 miles a day.
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I use the car as a daily runner, though I don't need it as much as I did before (virtually not at all) so I now have to take the car out on a weekly run because, like RR, I get withdrawal symptoms.
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mines definitely a daily driver, spent loads on it so mite aswell get the
enjoyment of drving it as much as possible! love driving it although fuel can be a bit pricey!! :signLOL:
had to put the standard 17" monzas on due this weather :driver:
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Daily for us also, my wife monday to Friday to ferry the kids about, and I drive it when we go out at weekends. Covered nearly 8000 miles since august in it.
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Still enjoy it after nearly 90k. Its is more than a daily driver, its also my wifes taxi. (Me driving her).
I take it out in the rain as well because last time I checked, it doesn't melt. :grin:
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I use mine every day for an 80 mile commute and then to and from the rugby at the weekends covering approx. 1000 miles every 2 weeks. Mine has just hit 100,000 miles which isnt ideal from a resale point as I will be looking to sell at the end of 2010.
The interior is looking good but the monza II's are battered and wormed but no point in getting them done now until warmer times!
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Daily driver for me, doing about 20k miles a year. I'm usually cursing it every week when I fill it up but as soon as I get back in the driving seat I'm glad it's a daily driver. No point keeping it garaged or getting a cheap daily runner as it won't be as fun or comfortable. I work hard to keep my car on the road so I want to get the most out of it that I can :happy2:
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My anni pd is my daily, just over 7 years old and 55k. Wish i could afford a 2nd car.
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Mine's a daily runner, I'll use it whenever I can. Any excuse, as VW once said! Unfortunately it lives on the streets. I wish I had a garage...I hate the scraping!
I have another car for the supermarket shop, the girlfriend's Ka. Not the greatest long distance car but its like a go kart round town!
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the mk5 is a daily runner for me but i also use the mk2 when i fancy a change
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mine is a daily but im never here to use it (30k in 4.5 years) just sits on the drive and company cars take the miles
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Only car we have so yes it's used most days.
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i used to have a show winning 1962 beetle that cost me £55k to achieve in total when finished, and a very mint 1 owner Karmann MK1 golf GTI drop top valued at just under £5k. they came out of the garage for shows maybe once or twice a year if it was sunny.
lost them both to a house fire, neither was insured as they were in a secure garage under the house so didnt see the need as they were impossible to steal
both destroyed. yes really.
now if i own it i drive it, lesson learnt
(to save the thread tangenting off i'll add that i lost the whole contents of the house and the house itself too and although insured the insurance company found a loophole so i was left with nothing other than the clothes i stood up in. thats all i intend to discuss on the matter)
if youve got it, enjoy it, you could be dead tomorrow and someone else will enjoy it instead
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i used to have a show winning 1962 beetle that cost me £55k to achieve in total when finished, and a very mint 1 owner Karmann MK1 golf GTI drop top valued at just under £5k. they came out of the garage for shows maybe once or twice a year if it was sunny.
lost them both to a house fire, neither was insured as they were in a secure garage under the house so didnt see the need as they were impossible to steal
both destroyed. yes really.
now if i own it i drive it, lesson learnt
(to save the thread tangenting off i'll add that i lost the whole contents of the house and the house itself too and although insured the insurance company found a loophole so i was left with nothing other than the clothes i stood up in. thats all i intend to discuss on the matter)
if youve got it, enjoy it, you could be dead tomorrow and someone else will enjoy it instead
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...............F in H thats really bad. :confused: :scared:
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mines my daily car
love it, bought it to drive and thats what will be done with it
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VC :sad1:
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i know mate, far too painful to discuss in detail though.
test your smoke alarms people, and put some in your loft space.
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Blimey Mr Cherry - thats :surprised: terrible
Daily hack for me too and the mk5 is a fantastic all rounder to goto work and back - well chuffed with it. Mk1 in bed at the moment :-)