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Are your mk1's Daily Drivers

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Are your mk1's Daily Drivers

IF not what else do you drive?

Our other car is a 91 MX5


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No it is kept warm in the garage !!!

Daily driver is a MK5 Edition 30

Cheers,
Ade

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i drive mine when i can but as she's not in one peice at the mo got front end apart again lol

i drive  a vauxhall bravo every day for work
and a mk3 golf cab  when not in the mk1 but thats the wifes car lol

hello!

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This is my daily driver

and this is our other daily

1983 1.5 GX FOR SALE! pm for details.

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Yup, daily driver, rain or shine,

drive it, bump it, park it, leave it….rely on it totally!

Don't want to keep it as a museum piece, want to use it!

Lhasa Green GTi tintop, standard engine… sunroof, central locking, eleccy windows…special warm hands ventilation tweek for winter!

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Mine's not a daily either - see sig for details of daily <Yorkshire man too tight to pay extra for Edition 30>

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try to use it all year round,got the family motor as well
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Oldfart said

Yup, daily driver, rain or shine,

drive it, bump it, park it, leave it….rely on it totally!

Don't want to keep it as a museum piece, want to use it!

Saphire Blau GTi CC Cabby, standard engine… , central locking!

86 Christmas Collection Cabby GTi in Saphire Blau!

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Yep total daily driver.
Gets me to and from college on weekdays and everywhere else in between :)

Although I do have a backup car, being my sisters VW Polo CL :lol:

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It's "<b>GTI</b>" <i>not</i> "GTi"

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The Golf is MY CAR! I do have a Volvo S60 2.0T with all the creature comforts though and that's for work and moving the family around. I get in the Cabby as often as I can though as it's the only car I actually LOVE driving, I did about 4,000 miles last year. The wife moves the boys around in a Corsa.  :sick:

Tian  :mrgreen:

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yep, my golf is my daily.

the wife has a scenic and we use that to cart the family around in

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My flip flop is my daily but the missis does have a nissan almera for the family days out.

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I hope to one day make my mk1 my daily but after 10+ months of ownership I've only driven it 4 times for a total of 20miles :cry:  meantime I'm stuck driving the heap as my daily.

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kamdeux said

I'm stuck driving the heap as my daily.


wouldnt exactly call it a heap!! :wink:

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6+ years of my daily abuse are starting to take their toll on it though

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I do drive mine as a daily...mainly every other day because the ones in between I am mostly broken down... :banghead:

Jo



Mk 1, 1983 1300 Blue LONG LIVE TAFY

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my mk1 is do everything daily driver, i have another golf mk2 in lock-up to re-live my youth in the later years
Pete

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can an old engine cope? how far do you all travel every day in your mk1s?

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:lol:  i use my sportline most days at some point to be honest, i love driving it, other than that or when a really long journeys on the cards or if im showing with the vr60c lads and lassies i take the VR6 :)  its my "main" car and my cabby is my point and squirt mobil for hacking around, it gets driven  (hard sometimes!) but garaged, cleaned, polished and generally very well looked after serviced and maintained meticulously with genuine parts were possible, as does the VR6, i am hopeing to get an Aubergine coloured Edition 1 G60 at some point in the not too distant future too :wink:  so it will be a struggle to choose which one to take out!!! :dontknow:

92 Sportline in Flash Red, Standard **SOLD**



91 G60 Corrado in Aqua Blue pearl



91 Rallye Golf, Tornado Red, AMD tuned to 220bhp 227 flb torque 9j x16 Borbet B alloys



1985 B Alpine white mk2 Golf Gti

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I do about 10k a year in my daily driver tintop.
No reason an old engine shouldn't be reliable if it's in reasonable condition and you don't ignore problems….always amazes me that some folk expect their car to keep running, but never bother to service it or deal with strange noises when they occur!!!
Oil and filter changes, plugs and cambelts etc mustn't be neglected! Also keep an eye on hoses for perishing -some people change them all as a precaution, but I've never done that…
Only thing mine doesn't like is heavy wind and rain when parked facing into the wind overnight - seems to get blown into the electrics and causes temporary damp problems, but fairly easily cured so far!
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