MK5 Golf GTI
General => Random Chat => Topic started by: winrya on January 08, 2011, 05:57:48 pm
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Hi all,
Sold the other halfs cooper s in the week and looking for a mini cooper diesel to replace it with. Yes I know, diesel :sick: but 72mpg, £20 a year tax and £400 a year cheaper insurance :laugh:
Anyway we've found a car, it's fully loaded; xenons, panoramic roof, heated front windscreen, bluetooth, climate, auto lights and wipers, cruise, mfsw, low miles, pepper white exactly as the missus wants it, the correct wheels, BUT... it has a white roof? I've never seen a white mini with a white roof and I'm sure it's going to look worse with having a huge slab of glass in the middle because of it.
Are we mad not to buy the car because of a roof colour??
One of the only pics i could find on the net (not the car)
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fe58%2Fwinrya%2F7697e63c.jpg&hash=8174d41a96ea9b547dacc35fc89870a58efee6a3)
Any idea how much it would cost to have the roof wrapped as this could be a fix to this problem?
Cheers,
Ryan
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Wouldnt let the roof put you off - like you say wrap it for a few hundred quid tops and job done!
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Yeah £100-£150 to get the roof done,no point in losing the car for a simple fix :grin:
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no point in losing the car for a simple fix :grin:
+1 :happy2:
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That roof would cost about 80 quid to wrap.
I like it how it is though lol
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Yeah, I think it looks OK tbh
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whats wrong with the white roof?? looks good.
where is it?? looks like some western cowboy town :signLOL:
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By the way, do you live in the 1930s? :grin:
Also pretty much every new mini I see has a white roof. :wink:
EDIT: Hold on a minute, is that some one sat in the boot of that old car??? :signLOL:
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The background does look odd - everything just lookss dated - quite a smart shot really!
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Lol, as said it's the only pic i could find, does look a rather random place.
I'm gonna stick the deposit down when they open in the morning and go down and see it when it comes in friday. White roofs on white mini's appear to be rare, there are 2 for sale in the country on autotrader at the moment.
Cheers for the input guys. Knowing our luck we will get there and it will have a wood interior and brown seats :laugh:
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I am not sure how it works with the pano roof but i seem to recall even BMW do special vinyl kits for the roof
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Lol, as said it's the only pic i could find, does look a rather random place.
I'm gonna stick the deposit down when they open in the morning and go down and see it when it comes in friday. White roofs on white mini's appear to be rare, there are 2 for sale in the country on autotrader at the moment.
Cheers for the input guys. Knowing our luck we will get there and it will have a wood interior and brown seats :laugh:
There's a White roof on the one I have for Sale! :wink:
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,23557.0.html
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Ok guys, another problem - it has half red leather seats which both of us dislike! Time to walk? :confused:
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Why do you dislike the seats you will be sat on them so can't see them :confused: :wink:
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Why do you dislike the seats you will be sat on them so can't see them :confused: :wink:
Haha, that's what I'm telling the missus, plus the fact they are more like 20% leather than half leather :smiley:
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You would be mad to walk with that spec? not sure what the mini is like in genreal for spec but that example sounds a cracking buy.
Darren :happy2:
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There seems a rather bigger problem to me... The car in the pic is a left hand drive....
Looks a well specd mini, I got a similar cooper s for my wife last year the best thing is the quick clear windscreen, a god send this winter. I love the pepper White combo and the pano roof is a real bonus.
My mrs' car had about £3k of additional specs on the car, were we buying from a BMW garage the car would have been priced much higher. As such from an Indy I think ^^^he didn't consider or look at the costs of the shed load of toys on the car hence we got a crackin deal. Sounds like you may be in a similar position.
Remember it's also free servicing on the mini. :happy2:
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The red on the facelift is more of a maroon is it not? The red on the R53 I agree is a little too 'red' - have you seen it in the flesh yet?
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It does look to be a left hand drive, I don't think the picture is taken in the UK either.
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Hahaha, guys, re-read the thread! That isn't the car he's is thinking of buying, it's just an example of the colour-way!
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:ashamed:
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lol :laugh: ***slaps head***
Pepper white combo is one of the best imho, we nearly bought this one, admittedly it had a black roof....but the spec was quite low for the money.....
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fgg277%2Fnogolfclubsatall%2F4f00ae80.jpg&hash=935d935afc6cc68a0a4eb1050fde25766a57e885)
We ended up however with this one and whilst it does need better wheels and maybe a jcw conversion (bodykit and tuning kit :evilgrin:) the car is totally loaded.
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fgg277%2Fnogolfclubsatall%2FIMG_0385.jpg&hash=dea03a779309837260caa9e3cea4b2c6490660cf)
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What about some JWC R95 18inch ..? I have a set!
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Do you now....with rubber? how much?
TBH though unless a total bargain we will prolly be looking at new wheels etc later in the year, still reeling from the expense of Christmas and tomorrow I am getting new side skirts fitted to the gti.
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they have tyres (have to check what tread), looking to get refurb'd (couple of marks round the edge) - but like you say not cheap wheels - would be looking around 500 notes I expect
I was meant to get some spacers to run them as winter wheels but never got round to getting them, which is great as I bet my matt black OZ's are cack now ( I daren't look!)
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Cheers for now...I think I prefer some cross spokes (still looking at options), there is a lot of winter still to come up here I think, so we will run the 16s we have for now anyway.
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Deposit placed, we were thinking we'd rather have xenons, panoramic and the other toys than all black seats and a black roof. Should have it by the weekend:) now I can use my car as a toy and put the miles on the diesel. Not sure if I mentioned it on the original post but her cooper s did 250 miles to £60 of fuel, having 2 thirsty cars meant we're at the point where I put a cost on a journey, £50 to go to oxford for the day is crazy. A run like that should be closer to £15 in the diesel!
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Was that an older model Cooper S? ours returns something like 35-40mpg, which is not too shabby...mind you my mrs drives it like a nun.....
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Was that an older model Cooper S? ours returns something like 35-40mpg, which is not too shabby...mind you my mrs drives it like a nun.....
Yep, one of the last of the supercharged models. It was a brilliant car, panoramic, satnav, full leather, LSD, but when i drove it, I enjoyed the supercharger and the missus is usually driving in town/ short journeys. To be fair it would do 35-40mpg on a run although the computer was a tad optimistic. When the new owners picked it up the gauge (digital bars rather than gauge because of satnav) was on full yet the range was showing as 225 miles :grin: it's a 50 litre tank like the golf
It was sad watching it go, so much fun, if i had a diesel it probably would have stayed but I'm too attached to let the golf go so we keep swapping hers. This is her 4th car in the 5 years I've had the gti and I'm still not ready to let it go :rolleye:
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55litre in the Golf.
Mini Cooper S's are rubbish on fuel round town - simple as that.
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My mrs is doing mostly motorway miles and is quite comfortable with the mpg...having come from (coughs) a Honda Jazz. :driver:
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Oh yeah, wasnt trying to put you off or be negative about it - just stating facts. We had a cooper which was not great and now have a Cooper S works which again is rubbish - but I knew this.
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My Mrs has a works non s cooper, only about 150 converted prior to the S coming out. Converted at coopers themselves springs/cams/intake/sound pack/JCW sports exhaust/certificate of authenticity. Doesnt even get remotely interested in getting going until 3.5k rpm and then revs it nuts off.
She wont let me drive it because I just cant get in it without flooring it in 1st and 2nd - great fun
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I just cant get in it without flooring it in 1st and 2nd - great fun
that sound about right, if its not wining your not driving it
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By the way, do you live in the 1930s? :grin:
Also pretty much every new mini I see has a white roof. :wink:
EDIT: Hold on a minute, is that some one sat in the boot of that old car??? :signLOL:
HAHAHA - Has no one seen that 1930's car in the background with 2 people sat in the boot ????????!!!!!! :signLOL: :signLOL: :signLOL: :signLOL: