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  1. First person interested has now changed their mind as the car is too far away from them so the Jazz Blue Loop is still for sale.
  2. I think the original poster is just alerting people to the poor, sorry, awful service you might get from a main dealer. Having been a VW enthusiast for 30 years, I agree that some dealers are awful, however some are outstanding. VW in the UK are probably much better now than they used to be, can you imagine how bad they were in the eighties!
  3. This is an outstanding Jazz Blue VW Lupo TDI sport with 98,000 miles on the clock. It has a long MOT and only costs £30 per year to tax.. It has all its keys including the lightweight plastic one. This car has its original handbook which includes most of the service history. This car is unmodified and still has its original VW Radio and CD multichanger. It has recently had a new cam belt and water pump fitted by VW. Looking for around £2600 If you are interested or would like more information please pm me or email me at: d_m_butcher@hotmail.com Alternatively you can call me on 0783 393 2274
  4. Another good Lupo wrecked.
  5. Hi, Lupo 3L's are even rarer in the UK. I think the 'problem' with the 3L is the gearbox. its a very complex unit and any kind of problem could cost you a great deal of money. Good luck. Martin
  6. Thanks to the community of Club Lupo I was able to fairly quickly diagnose a warning light issue on my ex’s SDI. Urgent email earlier in the day asked if I knew why one of the warning lights might be flashing? When she arrived it was clearly the glow plug warning light but why was it flashing? A few minutes on here helped me with the diagnosis. Turned out that the brake lights have given up. So thanks everyone, again Club Lupo comes to the rescue. PS – the Loop mentioned above is a car that I have driven half way across Europe and back on several occasions and covered 25,000 miles in it in less than two years. However I haven’t driven it for over a year but I gave it a test drive to make sure all was OK. All was fine but what really surprised me was the difference between the SDI and the TDI I currently have. My current daily driver is a Volvo C30 and it has spoilt me a lot and I had forgotten just how basic the SDI is. Don’t get me wrong, the SDI is a great car but the TDI is so much more and I am not just talking about performance. The TDI is smoother, despite being a triple; has much, much more low down grunt, I had forgotten just how much you need to rev the SDI. And that’s all before you realise how much better specified most TDI’s are compared to SDI’s. It sort of makes sense of the big difference in the price of these cars when they were new, from memory, when new the TDI cost 20-25% more than an SDI. I suppose, as always, you get what you pay for.
  7. Its got to go and its close... http://forums.clublupo.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=77934
  8. This is like a Dutch auction.... This is a great car but I really don’t need it as I already have an air-cooled Beetle and a Diesel C30 Volvo. Maybe I should sell one of those instead?
  9. Some good advice so far. I ran an SDI for about 25,000 miles and it did tend to vibrate at tick over. This was more noticeable when cold and in cold weather, tended to be smoother on tick over in warmer weather. It normally smoothed out a lot once under way. Its ‘sweet spot’ under load was just under 3000 rpm.
  10. Up and down it goes...
  11. As a Lupo owner who also has a C30 and rates Skoda’s highly, I appreciate your dilemma. Not driven the VRS but two close friends have and by all accounts ‘bloody amazing’ just about sums it up. However one loved the gearbox whilst the other hated it and felt that ultimately it compromised the car for him. He was considering chopping his Focus ST in for the VRS but the gearbox put him off. The C30 is a different animal but is an amazingly capable car, especially if you do a lot of miles, in some ways it’s a true grand tourer. Went round Europe last summer and had the choice of my C30 or the other half’s S2000. At the end of the trip we were both relived we went in the Volvo, the Honda would have been painful and that’s ignoring its hideous thirst for fuel. Have done a few 600+ mile trips in a day in mine and I felt fine at the end of it. The 1.6D is brisk but not quick, having said that it has loads of oomph at 85+mph and last summer was happy to cruise at 100mph (at a whisker over 3000rpm) on the autobahns. It’s worth adding that at that speed it would still have been very happy to pull much higher speeds but I was trying to be considerate to an engine that only had 10,000 miles on the clock. Diesels do take a long time to bed in. Mine is the drive variant of the 1.6D and has averaged 58mpg over 20,000 miles. In terms of build quality there is not much in it, they are both well thought out and well screwed together vehicles. The C30 does cost more to insure (quite mad really) but is cheap to tax. To sum up, speed and thrills = VRS; long distance, comfort and lower fuel costs = C30.
  12. Many, many years ago I had a car that would do this occasionally. I found that if I put the car into first gear and then went into reverse, it would usually work without horrible noises. Might be worth a try.
  13. Great bit of marketing, like the music and it looks like a lovely car. Good luck with the sale.
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