MK5 Golf GTI
General => New Member Intro's => Topic started by: Horatio on August 21, 2011, 09:54:49 pm
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Hi'yall
Picked up the GTI yesterday with the other half (Mindyloula :love:). Very nearly wasnt able to drive it away as the payment wasnt confirmed :mad: but after an hour of to'ing and fro'ing we were able to drive it away. Drove to the nearset Shell garage to fill up with some VPower unleaded to help get things started. Well chuffed with it, goes like stink :driver:
Why is it when you get home you start to notice all the little niggly marks and scuffs?? So annoying....thats when I noticed the neaside rear door panel is loose at the top of the window, caused by a lose screw :congrats: WTF? Will be having some choice words on monday with Mr.VW!
Still loving her tho :love:
Been scouring the site for the last week for info/mods, I think its gonna get serious....what can I say, you boys dont do things by half. Loving the site and the cars. :drinking:
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welcome
get some pics up :happy2:
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And a very walk welcome from a fellow new owner of a ed30. What colour and spec have you got? Mines a rather illumineous shiny red :laugh:
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As Horatio's aforementioned other half ( :love:), here is a quick pic:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2FMindyloula%2FGolf_Edition_30%2FGolfED30_1.jpg&hash=bd15de286c76da66a0cb417939f72f7f081c0320)
Plus a link to some pics I posted of the new car: http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,33796.0.html
It's a DSG, and apart from things like a Parrot and 6 disc CD player, and the Lux pack, I don't think anything has been done to it yet...
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Welcome :happy2:
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welcome along.
those ED30's are some great cars.
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welcome. :smiley:
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Welcome along matey :happy2:
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Your gonna enjoy the modding mate! One thing I would say, go revo, not bluefin like me!
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welcome along.
When you get a chance. Do a members ride post of the car.
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And a very walk welcome from a fellow new owner of a ed30. What colour and spec have you got? Mines a rather illumineous shiny red :laugh:
Lmfao, that the first subliminal hint of what mod to buy 1st??
Welcome to the site, I love the ED30
Mike
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And a very walk welcome from a fellow new owner of a ed30. What colour and spec have you got? Mines a rather illumineous shiny red :laugh:
Lmfao, that the first subliminal hint of what mod to buy 1st??
Welcome to the site, I love the ED30
Mike
The curse of the iphone corrective text. :evilgrin:
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And a very walk welcome from a fellow new owner of a ed30. What colour and spec have you got? Mines a rather illumineous shiny red :laugh:
Lmfao, that the first subliminal hint of what mod to buy 1st??
Welcome to the site, I love the ED30
Mike
The curse of the iphone corrective text. :evilgrin:
Its not a text fail that its a sign, buy a WALK !! lol
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Thanks for the warm welcome guys! :happy2: Saw my old car yesterday when I took the new one in to have the door skin AND gaitor fixed. The old girl looked really mint after a good detailing. Was quite tempted to buy her back. If anyones interested in a mint Graphite Blue VW Bora Highline 2004; full leather; A/C; rear parking sensors; GAMMA Radio/CD player/Cassette ( :signLOL:) full service history/partial VW history. Kept regardless of cost, all major work done by VW specialist.
PLEASE SOMEONE RESCUE HER! :rolleye:
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Watford, citygate
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Welcome from another ED30 owner :smiley:
They truly are great cars and still loving mine after the last 12 months.
Presume you're local to the Watford area then, did you trade your Bora in for the ED30 at Citygate Watford? Bought mine from Citygate Chalfont but get her serviced at Watford. I've had a few issues with service at the Watford branch but after complaining they did put things right, be interested on your findings.
Enjoy the new ride :happy2:
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Welcome from another ED30 owner :smiley:
They truly are great cars and still loving mine after the last 12 months.
Presume you're local to the Watford area then, did you trade your Bora in for the ED30 at Citygate Watford? Bought mine from Citygate Chalfont but get her serviced at Watford. I've had a few issues with service at the Watford branch but after complaining they did put things right, be interested on your findings.
Enjoy the new ride :happy2:
We're about 40 mins from Watford, so not too far, but wouldn't be in any hurry to take it back there for servicing/MOT etc.
In terms of our experience with the branch, it hasn't been great...
First of all, despite sending a CHAPS payment on the Monday (which clears into their account the same day) before we were due to collect the car, by the Saturday they were saying they had no confirmation of the payment and were potentially not going to let us take the car. Turns out their accounts department were looking for a different figure to what we had sent (by £100) and even though our payment had the reg of the vehicle and our name that apparently still wasn't enough of a clue that we had paid for the car :confused: We were eventually allowed to take the car after I had to provide a print out of my bank account transactions showing the money leaving my account and then phone calls directly with their bank to confirm the money had arrived 5 days earlier!! :fighting:
Secondly, the next day we noticed that the rear passenger door skin was loose, as was the gaitor for the gear stick. Cue phone calls back to Watford to get it sorted and we took it back this weekend to be taken care of. Seems like some screws were not tightened properly or something like that.. Not big issues, but expected much better from VW particularly with the number of checks they supposedly perform on the vehicle.. as Horatio put in his first post, it would appear that none of those checks include making sure the doors are properly secured!
We have a few other VW dealerships closer to where we live where we have had much better service so we will take the car to one of them for all future work :sad1:
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Sorry your buying experience was great Mindyloula, hopefully now the teething problems out the way you can truly enjoy the car :smiley:
My buying experience from the Chalfont branch was top notch and the salesman who I bugged for nearly 6 months for the right car was always keen to help and followed up with excellent customer service before and after the sale.
The Watford Citygate branch however have failed on a number of servicing points e.g missed my brake fluid change at last service (rectified by doing it free of charge when I noticed some weeks later) and also failed to advise me of the DSG service at 40k, which had I not read a thread on here to nudge me into checking my service book probably would have still not been done, very shoddy as they had my car at 39k for service and again at 41k for the missed brake fluid change and neither times was this mentioned, luckily DSG service done at 41.5k so should be no problems there.
The service staff however have been very helpful and my cars in again today to sort out a problem with the + paddle not picking up gear changes intermittently, let's see how they handle this especially as I purchased the Citygate extended warranty recently for £349 and was told it's far superior than the VW one!
Nonetheless, still an awesome car that I love and can't see me changing for a long time :smiley:
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Watford VW are utter turd.... avoid!
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Watford VW are utter turd.... avoid!
:signLOL: straight to the point, like it.
This is their last chance today to get my DSG issue sorted smoothly, otherwise it's a sh*tty complaint letter and will take my business elsewhere....they've had more than enough out of my wallet over the last year :mad: