My 3 figured stop-gap

[Slammed172]

Sold my clio in october last year and ever since I've been looking for a EP3 type-r. Christmas came and car market slowed to a stop. Lost out on a few motors by a matter of hours and the prices seem to fluctuate all over the place.

It now got to february and I've never been this long without a car, luckily I get to use the works courtesy cars but still want my own.

I'll probably wait till I graduate from Uni in June until I get an EP3, so I managed to scoop this up for under 4 figures to get me by.

It's by no means pretty but my mileage is astronomical at the moment so it will do the job - although fuel consumption could have been better, beggars can't be chooses though.

You'll have to guess it first..

 

[James105]

Mk4 golf?

 

[AK]

Honda Civic Sport?

 

[Coby.]

Mk4 golf?

+1

 

[welshname]

That's what I was going to say AK, EP2 civic sport going from that rear spoiler.

 

[AK]

Yeah, was the spoiler that got me.

 

[Slammed172]

50/50 but only one is right.

Elaborate.

 

[welshname]

It's an EP2 civic sport in sonic silver.

 

[James105]

50/50 but only one is right.

Elaborate.

Rear light was the area which made me pretty confident it was a Mk4 golf. Also the bumper to wing curve looks mk4 golf to me. Plus it's got the look of the "sports" style spoiler.

 

[Slammed172]

It's an EP2 civic sport in sonic silver.

Wrong ! Plus you'll never get one for under a grand.

Rear light was the area which made me pretty confident it was a Mk4 golf. Also the bumper to wing curve looks mk4 golf to me. Plus it's got the look of the "sports" style spoiler.

But which one ?

 

[welshname]

Wrong ! Plus you'll never get one for under a grand.



But which one ?

Please tell me you haven't gone for a 1.8 20v turbo GTi. Absolute dog s**t slow.

 

[James105]

Well you say about fuel efficiency isn't great so guess would be a 1.8T, but I don't know if they are sub grand. So possible 2.0GTI?

 

[Slammed172]

Please tell me you haven't gone for a 1.8 20v turbo GTi. Absolute dog s**t slow.

I have indeed.

Under a grand so could not refuse.

Heated leather Recaros was the deal breaker. I wasn't looking for one, my mate just got a new car so thought I'd have it.

 

[James105]

Sub grand you really can't go wrong! Unusual alloys, not sure iv seen them before.

 

[Slammed172]

Exactly. Mot till october. Just had cambelt and waterpump.

Just had, get this, £500 on tyres for the MOT !!

Although I'm going to get some original alloys for it ASAP, these are a bit 'chav'.

Probably split the these tyres and alloys and then make the money for the 'montreal' (OEM alloys) plus extra cash.

 

[Adamm.]

Mega bargain that mate. Looks pretty tidy too.l

 

[welshname]

Nice and tidy to be fair, heated leather recaro's would be the deal breaker for me aswell tbh.

So so heavy though and they really suffer for it.

 

[MarkCup]

Bargain that is.

 

[_Tom]

Good car for the money. A map will take it to 190ish

 

[Slammed172]

Cheers all.

Oh, so so heavy, but this isn't a twisties car, just for charging up and down the M1 really.

I've looked at maps, but it's just a stop-gap, so want to get some money back on the wheels, keep it tidy and sell it in a few months.

 

[James105]

Out of interest, is it cable throttle or fly by wire? Trying to work out which cars have which of the 1.8T varieties! (Should be putting one in my mk1 Golf)

 

[Slammed172]

I'm pretty sure it's cable, IIRC.

 

[Chris.p21]

My mates old S plate 1.8T was cable throttle

 

[welshname]

yeah there are 2 engine types for the 1.8 20v turbo, very slight differences in them but I'm almost certain all but the S3 engine are cable throttle.

 

[alex-avfc]

My mate had a couple, I was largely unimpressed. For the money though, that ain't bad.

Had a ride in your old 172 last weekend lol, pretty tidy.

 

[Slammed172]

Ah nice one, Lea's yeah ?

 

[Gally]

Great buy for that price mate. Even if you ran it into the ground! Nice.

 

[_Tom]

Older 1.8t's are cable up to 2001/02 with a K03 turbo and later Dbw cars have a k03s.

All of the 225's are dbw

 

[VeinAST]

Good bit of kit for the monies, well worth that in breaking! Wheels look pretty OK actually.

 

[Slammed172]

Cheers, definitely a no brainer to buy. Was looking on ebay and non-runners are fetching 1 grand, so if it went pop it's all good.

The wheels are 17inch RS4 Nouvolari style wheels.

Look a bit silly in real life to be honest.

 

[Brett]

Great buy. Hell of a lot of car for under a grand that.

 

[Tez.]

Nice miss my GTTDI that had heated recaros best seats ever