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Hello all, My mother recently part-exchanged her 04 plate Limited Ed Octy diesal Auto in for a new car. They told her that they would give her £5300 for it after doing the HPI check and getting all the info they needed off their systems, but when she returned a week later to purchase the car she was told that it was not the facelift and that they would only give her £4000! She needed the new car and so duly paid the extra money, but as she is not particulary wealthy I am fairly annoyed and so as a budding law student (haha!) im am going to call the manager tomorrow to discuss. She has written conformation of the price they initially said they would give for the car and everything. Anyhow what i really need to know is when the facelift happened on the MK 1 Octy, and so is my mothers car the facelift or not :confused: If anyone could give me a quick reply that would be much appreiciated. Regards, James

Hehe, thanks for that, would be damn annoying as most forecourts will only let u have about a hundred litres at a time i think.

Shell in Cheltenham was £1.02 the other day, always seems to be a lot cheaper than everywhere else. if they can afford to sell it at that, why cant everyone else?

I think you guys deserve it though. I wouldnt mind paying that down Tescos id never stop driving. Wonder how much it would cost to fill a Army Tank up with fuel on the forecourt here!

:( ummm just been on Parkers ... as I sold my vRS to buy a Premier Ed Type R im going to have to fork out £300! Its gone up £90. Bad times. Goddamnit I want my Furby back, but at least I dont have to pay quite so much for petrol, hehe. Btw here in Cheltenham Shell fuel prices are like 5p a litre cheaper than in Oxford 30 miles away. :confused: I may sell my car and ride my horse everywhere, like in the olden days, might you they will probably be taxing her soon :P Its ridiculous the Polititions can claim their car tax back as 'expenses' so they dont care ... as soon as ive got my Law degree in off out the country. Then ill see if they can get their pesky fat fingers on my money! or I may become one of them. Rant over.

Looks sweet mate, nice work!

Welcome, I also come from Northampton! Tiffield near Towcester to be precise, I drive a silver vRS will BBS style wheels. Regards, James

Looks like it is pretty nippy mate

Nice one! I am very jealous ... i too hope to be joining the TYPE R Honda crew soon! hehe. I saw the car on pistonheads i think, looks mint. have fun let us know just how really good it is!

Nothing, it all came off my old , now dead Fabia. But yeh too much, you only live once.

Mmmmm coilovers ... get some get some! hehe. Im just playin the evil person in your head, mind you they would be pretty sweet, and you can get them with your discount so might be a good idea to get some!

Hello mate! Hehe, damn right i stripped everything that wasnt welding on! na got all the bits i wanted before as you say she 'went to the scrapyard in the sky'! :( the new one feels ... well just the same but witha few less miles! They got replaced under warrenty??? What for? Mine are still going fine ... i hope Regards, James

Cheers mate, you hit the nail on the head in the earlier post bout just getting bored and wanting a few more revs to play with. I do love the vRS, and may not even put her up for sale til March next year as am loving the mpg atm and is a cracking car, but when/if i get a CTR i plan to tweak it like you have done, and a CTR with 240ish BHP is going to be bit quicker and more fun than a vRS. I just fancy a change next year ... plus the price of diesal being so much more than petrol means the saving is not that much anymore surely? Look forward to being in contact soon mate, waiting for the old student grant to come thru! hehe.

Yeh i understand, but i want to do some track days and go to the Nurburgring etc, surely the old Furdy diesal engine just isnt made for that. The major thing for me that is stopping me selling her is the mpg. I can get double what i could probably get in a CTR, but i do feel like a change. What i need to do is a another test drive ... i will go to Honda tomorrow morning.

Umm the car park thing is good. For the full lesson version borrow a 350z and learn to control the overtsteer ... really justa good excuse to have fun. I did an advanced driving day thing at Silverstone (the Council were paying for people to go so i signed up) and i found it really useful so i would recommend doing one, plus they are good fun. Mind you i never drive fast on the road, learnt my lesson the hard way one wet night in my 106 GTi ...

Thanks buddy. Yeh i suppose, but the police lights arnt even in there anymore, they were only in for a Children in Need Charity Event and the stickers could easily be removed if necessary.

Ok cool, yeh £7000 seems like a good price to me, as she has a lot of good tweaks on her and has been well looked after. Many thanks (p.s is it free to put a car up for sale on here if you are a Freedom member)

Thanks mate. She is probably going to be properly up for sale early next year, but if someone is willing to pay the right money (and its a good home! hehe) then i probably would sell her any time now. would like to hold on to her til ive manged to get to a briskoda meet!

thanks mate, a lot of hard work has gone into getting her like that. Full spec is; SSW Stamford 17 inch Split Wheels (resprayed in a custom silver with slight fleck) 205/40 Toyo Proxes T 1 - S 20mm lowering on Weitec Springs (colour coded to brake callipers) EBC Turbo Groove disks and Green Stuff pads all round Repainted and laquered callipers in Skoda Green Jabbasport remap to 164.6BHP and plenty of torque (i wanted to keep it reasonble) Cupra R intake system and Green Cotton air filter Forge Motorsport Strut brace Colour Coded door handles and side strips (a must do on the silver vRS's) Xenons, upgraded all bulbs including the side lights etc Nice silver tax disk holder! Fire extinguisher and First Aid kit Brake fluid upgrade to DOT 5.1 Most importantly keeping everything as clean as possible, even steam cleaning the underside when my mates ramp is free!

Thanks mate, so you guys think 7k would be achievable, they are going for more than price in Autotrader and Pistonheads.

My mate did them as he owns his own bodyshop. if you were to go anywhere they should only charge bout £70 to get them done tho.

hello and welcome, hope you find it useful!

1315 kgs if i remember correct

They are the Super Brilliance Xenons from Halfords and they pass the MOT fine. I occasionally get people flash me but not very often, I do admit they are very bright. Thanks for the compliment about the wheels!

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