As i spotted this new section, i thought it deserved a post!
In a bizarre turn of events, i find myself with a fleet almost exclusively of VW vehicles currently even though i'm not particularly a VW fanboy.
It started with my Golf mk7.5...i bought this one with a few hundred miles on it. After trying various makes over the years, we always said a the golf i'd previously owned years ago was one of the best allrounders id owned - so i got another one - this one!.
A few months after getting this one, my other half decided she wanted a car change...initially she was looking for an Audi A1, however for the money we found we could get a newer Polo GTI cheaper, with less miles on...so we bit the bullet and doubled up the VW driveway.
I had been looking out for a classic fixer-upper for a while, something about the same ages as me that i remember from my childhood, with the intention of keeping it and watch it grow in value... i always thought the Mk1 Golf was a great looking car and whilst its a classic, it hid its age pretty well compared to other cars of the era...anyway, this GTI popped up on ebay for a decent price....so i bought it! its pretty tidy, but did need some roof work (rust around the sunroof) and a few bits of tidying hear and there. I was initially intending the replace the roof skin in its entirety, however, its not the easiest job to separate the skin from the frame, so thought id take a look at the damage and see if a metal repair was practical as if the roof was coming off anyway, i couldn't make it any worse! I cut out the bad (one bigish hole and a couple of smaller pin holes which had bubbled up where the sunroof frame meets the skin). it wasn't as bad as it could have been so got rid of all the rust, welded in some new metal. it turned out pretty well altho still plenty of other jobs to get done.
So...who else has some other VWs along side their T6's?
In a bizarre turn of events, i find myself with a fleet almost exclusively of VW vehicles currently even though i'm not particularly a VW fanboy.
It started with my Golf mk7.5...i bought this one with a few hundred miles on it. After trying various makes over the years, we always said a the golf i'd previously owned years ago was one of the best allrounders id owned - so i got another one - this one!.
A few months after getting this one, my other half decided she wanted a car change...initially she was looking for an Audi A1, however for the money we found we could get a newer Polo GTI cheaper, with less miles on...so we bit the bullet and doubled up the VW driveway.
I had been looking out for a classic fixer-upper for a while, something about the same ages as me that i remember from my childhood, with the intention of keeping it and watch it grow in value... i always thought the Mk1 Golf was a great looking car and whilst its a classic, it hid its age pretty well compared to other cars of the era...anyway, this GTI popped up on ebay for a decent price....so i bought it! its pretty tidy, but did need some roof work (rust around the sunroof) and a few bits of tidying hear and there. I was initially intending the replace the roof skin in its entirety, however, its not the easiest job to separate the skin from the frame, so thought id take a look at the damage and see if a metal repair was practical as if the roof was coming off anyway, i couldn't make it any worse! I cut out the bad (one bigish hole and a couple of smaller pin holes which had bubbled up where the sunroof frame meets the skin). it wasn't as bad as it could have been so got rid of all the rust, welded in some new metal. it turned out pretty well altho still plenty of other jobs to get done.
So...who else has some other VWs along side their T6's?
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