Sam, It'll never be epic though, I've never liked it as you probably know lol.
I'm being GIVEN the money for something newer, so that's what I'm doing. I know you've never actually owned a newer car so probably don't understand....but eventually you will.
. Although on the other hand, I know we have very different ideas with cars - you like modding things and adding what I'd see as 'chav' mods....whereas I much prefer standard, and what you'd call boring lol. the mods I do are subtle 'gti' mods (clones, splitter etc) as I dont like the disorganisation of having wires everywhere and bits of dash painted etc....I just prefer modern standard and 'tidy'.
Honestly, even after the problems with it, I'd still prefer the golf over the HDi which just feels pov spec, uncomfortable and archaic tbh.....and that's before all the issues with it. However golfs are poor value for what you actually get hence not wanting another of those either.
There's nothing to say I won't get probs with a newer car, Infact I almost certainly will, difference is, for the whole time I've owned the HDi its never been perfect, there's always something broken and that's one of the reasons I got rid of the 1.8 tbh. Plus you have to spend half the value of a 306 to fix a 306 these days. So anything you replace is just money wasted. Newer cars don't break as much (thats just a fact, over time and distance things deteriorate and wear out more) and for the majority of the time you've got a car that is reliable and trustworthy. Someone said about really enjoying a 306 twice a month on here the other day....and this is exactly right, theres very brief moments which you wo.t get with any other similar car where it holds the road well and is fun to drive - but I'd rather have something that isn't epic for 1 day a month and shit for the others, but that does the job averagely for the majority of the time instead.
I'm being GIVEN the money for something newer, so that's what I'm doing. I know you've never actually owned a newer car so probably don't understand....but eventually you will.
. Although on the other hand, I know we have very different ideas with cars - you like modding things and adding what I'd see as 'chav' mods....whereas I much prefer standard, and what you'd call boring lol. the mods I do are subtle 'gti' mods (clones, splitter etc) as I dont like the disorganisation of having wires everywhere and bits of dash painted etc....I just prefer modern standard and 'tidy'.Honestly, even after the problems with it, I'd still prefer the golf over the HDi which just feels pov spec, uncomfortable and archaic tbh.....and that's before all the issues with it. However golfs are poor value for what you actually get hence not wanting another of those either.
There's nothing to say I won't get probs with a newer car, Infact I almost certainly will, difference is, for the whole time I've owned the HDi its never been perfect, there's always something broken and that's one of the reasons I got rid of the 1.8 tbh. Plus you have to spend half the value of a 306 to fix a 306 these days. So anything you replace is just money wasted. Newer cars don't break as much (thats just a fact, over time and distance things deteriorate and wear out more) and for the majority of the time you've got a car that is reliable and trustworthy. Someone said about really enjoying a 306 twice a month on here the other day....and this is exactly right, theres very brief moments which you wo.t get with any other similar car where it holds the road well and is fun to drive - but I'd rather have something that isn't epic for 1 day a month and shit for the others, but that does the job averagely for the majority of the time instead.