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That's beyond insane.

£4 per mile in depreciation alone?! F***. That would have funded some pretty special 'hire' cars for the 2,000 miles covered in it!

I hope so...£7k does seem a bit harsh...but the miles will put a lot of people off when there's so many out there that have done 20k or less...even if that 20k might have been done at the hand of 5 different owners :confused:

Ours has started playing up a bit more frequently now...main box is in non-eco mode, seems to make not one bit of difference. Watchdog have a thing on Sky Q next week...worth watching to either see how best to get Sky to sort things out...or to find out we've all been collectively f*cked.

Yes, depreciation is only ever an estimate until the day it actually sells. I valued mine at £7k which is the WBAC valuation I got for a 2013 ST at 58k miles. In theory I should be able to better that selling privately to someone that appreciates the fact that it's a one owner car, religiously...

You should! I think it could well be less than my ST, the new car depreciation hit is the massive killer.

I didn't actually claim that I lost 10 bhp from this specifically...just that my rolling road result was about 10 bhp down from where it should have been. If fixed it now but has that given me 10 bhp? I seriously doubt it for what amounts to, being generous, about a 1 psi boost gain!

Right now @Sir_Dave they're, umm, interesting. Up to 4th gear on treated and damp roads the traction light is flashing at will and that's when the ambient temperature is 10 degrees or so. When it's just above freezing they're even worse. Oddly, I quite enjoy it! I leave early enough for the...

When my 172 Cup locked itself into 2nd gear I just drove it home at 40 mph maximum and with lots of planning ahead at junctions! Luckily I only lived 7 miles from the track...but then later on I had to drive it the 35 miles to Rentech. That was a painful experience.

Of course not! Depreciation is purely speculative right now...that'll get firmed up properly when I eventually get rid of it...there'll be a final absolute this is what it cost report at some point...probably as a segue into my RS ownership. Ouch! 69ppm hurts! Predictions for the RS? I'm...

I've got through 3 sets of tyres, not 4, in almost 60k miles...so that's 20k (or just under) per set including on average one trackday each. I'd say that's pretty good going! I've been there with spare wheels and dedicated track tyres in the past...from my experience it doesn't work out any...

Exactly. Buying new, be it lease or otherwise is always a massive chunk no matter which way you look at it...unless a) you buy something depreciation proof or b) hold on to something for a looooong time. £26k is assuming I get £7k for it which is the webuyanycar valuation at my mileage. In...

It would appear so! There's a lot of things I could have not done...but, I think my ownership and spend is fairly typical of people I know of on these forums and beyond...hence why I pulled this summary together. If nothing more it opens eyes at least and maybe helps people make a more...

Depreciation? That can be minimised if you buy and sell without loss but other than that how else would you reduce any of those/my costs?

After 3 1/2 years, 57,500 miles, 4 trackdays, a sh*tload of money, and plenty of OCD cost recording later, the results are in... My RS should be cheaper :fearscream:

Yar, on the Golf it's binary and artificial.

Am I reading that graphic right...goes/sounds like a rocket? Is it a sound symposer like the Fiesta or artificial through the speakers? I'm going to clean up and re-attach mine this weekend, see if I can bring it back to life and making noise again as I miss the sound.

Yay, mine have started doing that, although it's not such a PITA that I have to turn it on every 24 hrs to stop it.

Yes, well, sort of... Imagine a box which is divided into two halves with the wall separating them being a rubber membrane. One half of the box is connected by a pipe to the intlet tract right next to the throttle body, the other half connects to another pipe that routes into the passenger...

The sound symposer is little more than an enclosed plastic box with a plastic and rubber diaphragm sandwiched between two halves and some torx screws to secure it. It is fully enclosed on the intake side (and it resonates on the cabin side to generate the sound), but under boost it seems some...

Surprising results...the only symptom was a lack of cabin sound from the symposer, results were that boost was being lost across wide rev range.

Ditto Jeff, I'm anywhere between Bognor and Worthing.

Ah, I misunderstood, I thought you were using minimal outlay to refer to how much you paid each month.

I'm curious...what do you class as minimal outlay?

Amen to that. There's slowing down for the 30 limit sign, and then there's slowing down from the 30 limit sign. Slow down from the sign, get caught going more than 30, and you are absolutely fair game...there was a sign that you chose to react to only after you had passed it. It's that blame...

If I got caught by either a fixed or mobile camera I'd blame nothing other than myself for a) willingly going over the posted speed limit and b) not being alert enough to spot the camera/van. As said by a few others I can't think of a single reason that I would ever feel the need to try and put...

58 needed here. Non curved, non 3D, couldn't care less about audio as TV speakers never ever get used. Don't care about features, just care about how good my Sky Q 4K and Xbox One feeds will look on it.

For me to be interested in that I'd want to see; Better pictures (soon to be sorted hopefully, you're selling your car not your photography skillz) No mention of the respray (caveat emptor, let the buyer find that out, sell it as having amazing condition paintwork though) Standard GTi badge on...

This is what I tried explaining to her before resorting to "Sssshhhhhhhhh". 50mm bezel and 50 inches versus 5mm bezel and 58 inches = approx 70mm wider overall and almost exactly the same height wise. The 55 inch models I looked at were the same width as my old 50 but about 50mm less height...

This is exactly why we did it. I'm hoping to get a 4k bargain on black Friday at the end of this month though. Want 58 inches, wife says too big, I say be quiet.