Oh-I've just met one. An 05VRS in black. I don't know th history, but it seems like a lass with contacts in house over the road had bought an almost scrap one, with  front bumper damage and dodgy front brakes. Brakes were down to scored discs and almost seized pads/discs, which local bloke sorted out. They'd lost the wheel locking nut which I tried to help out with, but were woefully ignorant of the marque. BUT how can folks let cars get this bad.  Lad fixing the brakes said that my 04 sounded so swweet compared to this bit of crap.

Edited 13 March, 20206 yr by john999boy

13 hours ago, VWD said:

Oh-I've just met one. An 05VRS in black. I don't know th history, but it seems like a lass with contacts in house over the road had bought an almost scrap one, with  front bumper damage and dodgy front brakes. Brakes were down to scored discs and almost seized pads/discs, which local bloke sorted out. They'd lost the wheel locking nut which I tried to help out with, but were woefully ignorant of the marque. BUT how can folks let cars get this bad.  Lad fixing the brakes said that my 04 sounded so swweet compared to this bit of crap.

 

I had a mate that was GIVEN a Vauhall Nova 1.5tdi.

Now those were very desirable little cars when I was about 20, almost as fast as the GSI, good economy and quite an expensive second hand buy reletively speaking.

 

My mate is terminally lazy ******. the car got a flat, he couldn't be bothered to fix it, then the tax ran out and he just left it sitting parked rotting. It ended up with ivy growing through the engine. I think he eventually ended up selling it for scrap.