What do you think of this?

[Rich.T]

I agree with everything Sparkie has written.
But theyre totally worth it.
Awesome cars as long as you get a gooden.

Ive got a car that has had more owners than i dare to mention and in some places has a little sparce service history.
But its been great.
Only had a couple of the issues mentioned above that ive now fixed.
Worth it for smiles per hour.

I will add window regulators to the list.
If you hear a cabley twanging noise when operating the windows, they are on their way out.
Cant be fixed and have to be replaced.

Rich

 

[bigT's lcr]

12k!! Needed a giggle today

 

[Nathan penney]

Wow 12 grand!?
I considered changing mine last year for one exactly the same as mine but with 48k on the clock instead of the 90 that mine has. Even that with a full Seat history ( not always a good thing) was £6995.
I thought better of it and kept mine.
I know the place that the 12 grand one is for sale at, It’s not far from me and everything is always over priced.

 

[Sparkie]

There is a spectacular one coming up for sale very soon for 4 k if the OP is interested?
Fully wrapped in a lovely yellow.
With very high spec too.


Badger5 Custom Map + TIP,
3”Custom exhaust, FMIC, Bosh 550’s, BC Coilovers, ARB’s +loads more.

 

[iammooks]

I'm hoping a tree will fall on mine at the moment - my insurer has overvalued my car saying it doesn't make a difference to the premium whether it's £1,000 or £3,000, so I'd be able to get a petrol instead.

Of course, then I'd get to go through all the awful little jobs I've done on mine over the years all over again...


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[bigT's lcr]

I'm hoping a tree will fall on mine at the moment - my insurer has overvalued my car saying it doesn't make a difference to the premium whether it's £1,000 or £3,000, so I'd be able to get a petrol instead.

Of course, then I'd get to go through all the awful little jobs I've done on mine over the years all over again...


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Hopefully no one will half cut the base of that tree you park under cough wink wink cough

 

[Maria]

Still nervous about the reliability and upkeep with these. Is there anything that I should be looking out for? For instance, I bought a 2008 BMW 320d with the N47 engine with 85k miles on it about 4 years ago and it’s been a literal money pit. Way more than the cars worth... Just curious what these Mk1 Cupra’s are like?

Cheers! ?

Ok I don't know about the Cupras I have a TDi 110 since June 2016, poor girl has been neglected abused and spent long periods of time off the road for whatever reason, and was on around 80k when I got hold of her - paid 1700 and basically forced the garage to throw in a cam belt and water pump as there was no service history whatsoever. She's now over 130k and all I've done is basic maintenance, both bottom ball joints which are a weak spot on these, all round brake pads, and put her right after a large log ripped the sump and put dents underneath all the way along. I've only been driving to and from work (10 miles each way, dual carriageway) for a year and outside of that she has been the length and breadth of the country never missing a beat, sometimes more than 1000 miles in a weekend trip. All this from a 14 to 18 year old car that is basically an old banger. I don't want to tempt fate but she has always come home on her own 4 wheels.
Because of time off road waiting for a sump from Germany for a sensible price, we put our other one on the road which we bought for spares, a 2000 petrol 1.6. Bearing in mind it was scrap, MOT cost us 300 including you guessed it bottom ball joint ... then in a week it was back for a £500 LUK clutch will will likely long outlast the car. It is what it is, a car snatched from under the scrapper's nose, but it runs and it's reliable so far. Obviously I don't have the same trust in it as I have in my dizzle, but 6 months on all's well.
Bottom line these are good cars, a lot of fun, and by modern standards cheap and easy to keep on the road. To have, get and keep them pristine and customised will cost whatever you want to put in but a lot less than a lot of much less fun stuff. If you've always wanted one, have one - regret what you did and not what you didn't do. I don't call mine my mid-life crisis car for nothing!

 

[iammooks]

Hopefully no one will half cut the base of that tree you park under cough wink wink cough

Oh no! The car was parked in a way that meant the tree landed on the car lengthways, splitting it clean in two. That's not going to polish out.


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[Nathan penney]

Just take the good bits off first.
“ sir, your car had no wheels, seats or brakes when we investigated it”
‘Must have been the force of the tree hitting it that has sent them all flying‘ ??