Well after many years of mooching around on here and a plethora of VAG related groups over on Facebook I thought it was about time I started making some kind of documentation of how I spend the vast majority of my time and hard earned cash!
As some of you may already know I've had a long line of these cars, whether it be used on the road or simply to salvage parts from.
I spent a considerable amount of years buying and modifying VW & SEAT TDI variants and the past 4 and half years it was with a mk1 Leon FR TDI.
Several months ago I began to get an itch for change and decided it was time to dip back into the petrol territory but as I'd already accumulated so much for the mk1 Leon and mk4 Golf over the years it only made sense to choose the Leon Cupra R as newest bain of my life...
After searching high and low for months on a daily basis I came across a tidy fairly lowish mileage example at a great price.
Originally I thought it was in Bangor Wales but after further conversations with the owner it materialised to be in Bangor Northern Ireland!
Bare in mind I live in Maidstone, Kent so this was essentially a thousand mile round trip FFS!
The idea was quickly ditched even though it was super tempting but realistically I didn't have the time to travel across and expenses involved were racking up quickly.
About 4 weeks later the advert reappeared with a lowered price which obviously grabbed my attention once again as this basically ruled out additional travel costs involved.
Another message was pinged across and before I knew it I'd managed to wrangle the price down even further and I'd booked a flight over to Belfast and a ferry back via Cairnryan in Scotland.
Pics from the seller taken just before I collected it back in December 2018.
Basically stock 2 owner BAM R and had just ticked over 80k miles when I picked it up.
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As some of you may already know I've had a long line of these cars, whether it be used on the road or simply to salvage parts from.
I spent a considerable amount of years buying and modifying VW & SEAT TDI variants and the past 4 and half years it was with a mk1 Leon FR TDI.
Several months ago I began to get an itch for change and decided it was time to dip back into the petrol territory but as I'd already accumulated so much for the mk1 Leon and mk4 Golf over the years it only made sense to choose the Leon Cupra R as newest bain of my life...
After searching high and low for months on a daily basis I came across a tidy fairly lowish mileage example at a great price.
Originally I thought it was in Bangor Wales but after further conversations with the owner it materialised to be in Bangor Northern Ireland!
Bare in mind I live in Maidstone, Kent so this was essentially a thousand mile round trip FFS!
The idea was quickly ditched even though it was super tempting but realistically I didn't have the time to travel across and expenses involved were racking up quickly.
About 4 weeks later the advert reappeared with a lowered price which obviously grabbed my attention once again as this basically ruled out additional travel costs involved.
Another message was pinged across and before I knew it I'd managed to wrangle the price down even further and I'd booked a flight over to Belfast and a ferry back via Cairnryan in Scotland.
Pics from the seller taken just before I collected it back in December 2018.
Basically stock 2 owner BAM R and had just ticked over 80k miles when I picked it up.
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