Hiya all, new here so i'm lookin for a bit of advise!, i've got a budget of around £6500 for a vrs.........now i could proberbly stretch to £7000 but here is my question, do i get a mint 05 plate mk1 with low miles or a mk2 with higher miles on it??? i've never owned any vag group vehicle so how are the mk2's at 100000miles?? there seems to be quite a few now for sale with that kind of mileage on em.

I only do about 7000 miles a year so i'm tempted to go for a higher mileage mk2!........any advise??????

All the best

John

Hiya all, new here so i'm lookin for a bit of advise!, i've got a budget of around £6500 for a vrs.........now i could proberbly stretch to £7000 but here is my question, do i get a mint 05 plate mk1 with low miles or a mk2 with higher miles on it??? i've never owned any vag group vehicle so how are the mk2's at 100000miles?? there seems to be quite a few now for sale with that kind of mileage on em.

I only do about 7000 miles a year so i'm tempted to go for a higher mileage mk2!........any advise??????

All the best

John

Mark 2. Much more refined

Mark 2. Much more refined

Ditto

Ditto

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if you decide mk2 you may struggle to find one in budget with decent mileage. if you want rawness get the mk1.

ditto - mk2 is a much better car (golf 5 chassis)

i just changed to an octavia last week after 3 years and just under 90k miles in a golf gti mk 5 which i had from new. At that mileage the golf felt just like it did at 10k miles - you really couldn't tell it had done the miles (other than a few supermarket trolley dings). I would not be at all worried about a 90-100k mile vag car, provided of course its had the maintenance needed etc and the price is right.