I'd like to touch on the point that Greg made (above). You've hit the nail on the head. To be frank, I was very naive when I bought my six, I rushed out and bought the first car i saw and thought (stupidly) that everything would be fine, and it wasn't. With hindsight (and we all know how wonderful that can be) I should have viewed several and taken my time. In fairness, at that time I owned a 3.2v6 TT, my wife was 6 months pregnant and complaining about her 'bad back' getting in and out of the low car / foot room. To be fair I think I was that desperate not to end up driving a Renault Espace I'd have bought pretty much anything at that time.
You live and learn n all that. That said, I think (as you touch upon) my car is now well sorted. I got sold a kipper and still intend to send the b'stard (R&W Motors - who have a six up cheap now funnily enough) a turd in the post. That bs’tard knew exactly what he was doing make no mistake about it. Again, with hindsight he didn’t really have particularly good knowledge of the car either, but obviously I didn’t realize it at the time.
The way you react to this is what stands my car apart (I feel). I could have kacked myself and belted it back into trade ASAP but I had fallen in love with it and felt that I needed to do the right thing and get her straight so I could enjoy it. I'm proud (if not foolish) to say that I did so. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve had perving over the car and telling me how nice it is etc, even policemen in Asda carpark stopping me for a chat and a ‘little look see’. I know I did the right thing and who ever buys my car will have a bargain – a car that’s been brought back from decay with a bit of love and a very understanding wife ha-ha…
Including the problems I had at the start (the steering rack which wasn’t included in my 6k figure) it takes the total spent on the car to 7k – got a rack from Grizz fitted by a friend who is a former audi master tech. My car today bares no resemblance to the car it was when I bought it. I’d like to think that is a huge difference. Afterall, it is a car that can be fixed and was fixed. I’d love a potential buyer to do exactly what you did and read what happened to me, how I had to pay a shed load but got the nice car I wanted in the end. The car now, has had everything done that a potential buyer could wish to see done. Yes, sure with hindsight buying a more expensive car would have made more sense for me at the time but….. I wasn’t being opportunist I was simply operating slightly out of my league and couldn’t really afford the higher priced car. I’d set out wanting an 04 plate, realized I couldn’t afford one and took a gamble on an 02 which bit me in the @ss. In hindsight, maybe I should have bought the Renault Espace, but would I do it again???? HELL YEAH!!!! Driving that bstard around for the last year has been the dogs banana’s and I wouldn’t swap it for the world and if I could afford it I’d probably keep it but needs must as the devil drives n all that.
Fortunately, I was able to afford to have the work done that was required and didn’t give up but a year on from that things are slightly different. As per the thread my wife’s about to pass her test and for obvious reasons she’s never going to be able to drive the six in the near future. Secondly, I’ve spent so much money on it I would like to recoup some of it. Baring in mind the actual outlay now tops 20k I think the asking price of 14,250 is absolutely spot on. Also, I feel I have perhaps spent a bit too much time and money on the car than is actually good for me. It’s a gorgeous car. When I drove back to Wales from Grizz’s 10 days ago it was smooth, beautiful, effortless and it was the best drive I’d ever had in her – she was banging!!!! But in the cold light of day when you have to explain to your wife that you’ve spent the value of the car she was looking at fixing yours and she’s going to have to wait a while it just isn’t fair. You think “perhaps this is getting out of controlâ€
