So it's been about a year since I bought the Golf (or thereabouts, it was definitely April last year). Just got back from a trip visiting family on the Isle of Man so Golf has had a thorough smashing and 2 bouts of 250+ miles of motorway driving (with the only fault being that the glue from behind the drivers side mirror coming away, seems to be common - fixing that today)
Bought on 61k, currently on 67.5k or so.
So this year so far it's had:
2 new wheel bearings on the front - I think they were ~100 combined, labour by
@Scrooge who is still a glutton for punishment
4 new tyres (Conti Sport Contact 5) - £386 plus fitting
Roughly 3 trips to a tyre fitter before we finally worked out it was someones bodge job of a wheel refurb causing a seal issue on a tyre. 7 months of my life I won't get back. - About 10 quid I think
Wheel refurb - 270ish I think?
Haldex service (120 quid according to this thread, I had forgotten)
Full service (last week) - 210
New brakes, discs and pads (all of them) - 320
1 breakdown recovery (wasn't the cars fault, was a bolt not tightened up) and then 1 nearly breakdown (more bolts) - Err just some new pants having to go from 70ish to zero on the M25 before the car imploded
New rear springs (one snapped) - 150 ish all I think including fitting
Lower balljoints (both of them) - Think they were dirt cheap, like 14 quid each, garage then charged me an hour (50+ VAT to fit)
Passed its MOT with no advisories, which is nice.
Here's a picture from a few days ago from the Isle of Man trip (Picture is from Marine Drive, which is a tiny road that goes absolutely nowhere south of Douglas):
Despite the issues, overall I'd say I'm happy with the car. Can be hilarious fun despite weighing the same as an oil tanker and having roughly the same fuel economy. Also my back didn't hurt after two nearly 5 hour drives this week, so that's good. Glad I don't drive an Edition30, the noise makes it fun even at low speed.
Still plotting it's replacement, but I think that's going to be the same regardless of what car I have.