Looking for reliability...
Turbo Mini Forums

My mini is taking a bit of a spanking recently, so I am considering taking it off the road for a while and getting everything sorted out.
However, I still need to commute 3 or 4 times a week.. so was thinking of buying an old Golf or Polo...

Preferably without electric gizmos to go wrong.

However, I am not sure what failings the Mark1 to Mark3s tend to have!

Any advice on this would be great :)

Any suggestions for other suitable cars would be helpful too.
Thanks.

http://www.jolyonway.com

Ex GF had an N reg 1.0 Polo. Bombproof, nothing ever went wrong with it. Just watch out for rust on older VW's.

VW all the way, polo mk3 cheap as chips too

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

i ran a rover 200SDi as a daily hack for the last few years, all it needed was brakes and tyres, and jsut flew though another MOT, very cheap motoring as no-one wants rovers! wee boost tweak and home made "chip" and it was pretty nippy too!

turbo 16v k-series 11.9@118.9 :)

Denis O'Brien.

I have a p plate astra tds sat outside my house at the moment. full test and a bit of tax, cost £500. It's got the isuzu engine so you can add a bleed valve, up the fuel and set it to 1bar of boost and bob's your aunty. fast reliable cheap diesel.

Is it purely for a runabout, or do you want a specific type of car ?

There are plenty of very cheap to run and reliable cars around for a few hundred quid.

As Tom says....the older VW's can rust a lot if thats what you're after ( 80's or early very 90's cars )

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

My first thought was a Golf or Polo as I had always thought they were pretty failproof, which is what I want really - something which wont break down every month!
Saying that, if I can't find a VW any other suitable car would do me fine.
As long as its cheap I don't care what it is to be honest.
Going to have to keep my eyes peeled

http://www.jolyonway.com

i have a mk3 polo. very reliable so far.

i know from experience the rocco and golfs 1.8 8v engine is bombproof. :)

not alot to say about vw's other than they go forever. ive had 3 now ,mk1 golf, mk4 golf and my current polo. keep going back to them .