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this.If you want a safe earth, you have to file away the top layer. Even if you just scratch it with a sharp nail (what I do) till it looks shiny.

this.If you want a safe earth, you have to file away the top layer. Even if you just scratch it with a sharp nail (what I do) till it looks shiny.

Agreed. If you buy a diesel, you need to be doing long trips and in it for the long term, especially considering the difference in initial price. Diesels are pretty costly, and unless you're lucky, you will pay over the odds. No idea about Lupo oil burners but my mate has a 306 Turbo which has been performance upgraded to run at 150Bhp, and its hellishly cool and damn fast! Lol come off it Silver It all depends on what you need your car to do. I do miss my petrol Lupo desperately, but I can't help but say I enjoy driving my new one equally as much. It's fun, it's cheap and Pretty sure a Lupo Sport was nearer group 12, but if you can get it for Group 6 money then go for it!!

Sounds as though you're best going for the 1.4 E or S. It is a bit nippier than the TDi round town, and if you aren't doing motorway miles then MPG isn't going to bother you I guess. Also, you can grab yourself a 1.4 S for quite cheap. There is one for sale near me for £650 with 90k miles on. The equivalent TDi S will be going for double, if not triple that. Just beware, the 1.0 Lupo/Arosa is considered more first car'ish. I know you said you'd get bored of a 1.0 but they handle well enough and aren't too fast for a novice so to speak. If you do go for a 1.4, don't drive it like a **** because you'll probably be the first of your mates going in a ditch. Have you actually checked your insurance? Got solid quotes to speak? I'd say you should expect higher insurance premiums, so don't come on here posting "why is my insurance so high?", risky driver in a risky car (as opposed to the 1.0 or diesel). I wouldn't go for a 1.4 Sport, Insurance Group 12 I think. The 1.4 standard is a pretty nice motor mate.

Nice. Yeah, but if you had a wiring adapter just replace that, if not, I've got them but I'm not at home right now. I'll put them up when I am. Although others on here know them

're listed no time wasters. Yup, standard.

Going put up a tutorial ?

All that work, all that effort, and they had everything on a plate, the iPad fit perfectly in the dash... Yet at the end, it still looked shite!! Nice one! Aside from that, the tutorial is useless, Lupo is Double DIN. This is far more relevant, Double DIN, and looks a million times better: http://www.mp3car.com/android-tablet/150916-samsung-galaxy-tab-in-a-2010-vw-golf-with-big-pictures.html

Are they legal lol?

I had no issues with static unless I plugged in a poor quality car phone charger, which to be fair interfered with FM radio (takes some doing). No idea on the stopping and fining. It seems to be a grey area though. I've heard some interesting stories to be fair.

Cringe-tastic, but still, I'll tell you there's a few problems straight away. If you go for a bog standard iPad, they are 10 inches. So you've got a problem right from the word go. Double DIN is 7 inches. What most people have done when it comes to cartablets, is taken a 7 inch tablet, something like a Galaxy Tab. I guess the iPad Mini would work for this too. Your other issue is that sound from tablets is pretty poor. Most people who have made these kind of projects work, have commented the sound quality from a Galaxy Tab or iPad or whatever is really naff compared to a proper head unit. That said, if you go for an iPad Mini, it's easier to simply make a mould out of an FP-17-00 I imagine. If you're an Apple fan, then I really can't help you, but if you are willing to go for something Android'y, I've been eyeing up the possibility of doing a totally unique head unit that features Android Jelly Bean, plus could be upgraded very easily every few years, quite cheap as well. I've not seen another one like it, but I've not completely convinced myself it can be done yet.

To be fair, you gave me a serious answer when I asked about pinking

Ahh, something Hazy mentioned that I forgot. Check both the central locking and electric windows. I made this mistake when I bought mine. The seller showed me the electric windows and central locking but I didn't really check it thoroughly and I noticed after a day that it was temperamental. I've had it fixed (only cost £30 at a VAG specialist) but if I'd properly checked it to begin with, I probably could have knocked a bit off the price I paid. Edit: Btw Hazy, that is an interesting thread and one that tempts me to go for a remap (Again, I already enquired once lol). Thing is, I haven't removed the restrictors so I imagine the benefit would be even less for me.

Behind your head unit? You can ground on the ground wire in the plug lol... or even on the head unit itself? I grounded the parking brake detector wire thing (to stop you using it while driving) on one of the screws that holds the head unit together lol. Then, just in case I got stopped by the feds, I took the wire down to the undertray, cut it in half, put a male and female bullet connectors on, so if I ever get stopped, all I do is disconnect those two bullets and the ground connection is broken. "It's not wired up to be honest officer, I can't use the DVD player etc" see how that goes down haha! I've never used it, thus far, but who knows when I might

Scott, do you ever make a post where you aren't taking the piss lol?

1. You won't. That isn't where they are slow. They are great on the motorway. Where they are slow is at the low end. The 0-60 on an SDI is..... eventually lol. I think it's actually about 16 seconds, so yeah they really aren't brilliant getting up to speed. However at motorway speeds, they are great. This is where they are really in their comfort zone, so I wouldn't worry about that. Also they're a heavy car, I doubt wind will have much of an affect on a Lupo SDI. 2. 30 pound tax after 2001. I pay 220 because I foolishly bought a V-reg one I was lead to believe I got 30 but it's a 2000 model. Oh well, I still like it 3. A question that I was unable to find a real answer for on here. VW recommended 5w30 when I called, which surprised me as I've always used 5w40, seems more bullet proof. So, since it's last service a month ago, it's had 5w30 in. I'm going out today to check it, to see if it's burning off too fast. We'll see. 4. Well yes, you can, but no, not really as there is no point. I enquired with Al about this. The problem with the SDI is with no turbo, you aren't to get any great benefits with a remap. Maybe a slightly smoother throttle response but not much in regard to horsepower or MPG. In fact, he said with an SDI, you might even lose MPG. 5. Interesting question. I read about this on another forum. I've not seen anyone doing it with an SDI, but I have seen people on other forums doing it with a 3L. I imagine it's possible but I don't know the in's and out's. I remember reading an article in the paper about someone producing Bio diesel for 8p a litre and he still returned 40MPG out of his Volvo. If you do decide to look into, I think you should put something on here because I love the idea of producing bio-diesel. Cheap fuel, and a middle finger to the government (not the petrol companies, they aren't the ones ripping us off). 6. With an SDI? There aren't any that stand out from the common issues with Lupos. At least I can't think of any. Check the gearbox they have a temperamental side. Roof rust is another (a little bit on mine). Have a scout around the forums, you'll find some common issues with Lupos in general, I assume they stretch to the SDI. 7. Look around before buying. The ones on eBay are very high priced in my opinion. I got mine second hand privately for far cheaper than the ones on eBay. They're going for ridiculous money. 1795 quid with 160k miles on. I got mine for 1000 with 90k miles on and mine is the upper model. The engines are bullet proof though, will last forever if maintained properly. There are ones on YouTube that have 300,000 miles on and are still going.. Don't be put off by the agricultural feel of them. They do idle a bit heavy. I took it in to a VW specialist and said "is this normal" turned it on and he said "yep, it's an SDI". They are, however, incredibly smooth when driving so I think the little bit of heavy idling isn't that big a deal! There are SDI's in both pov spec and better spec, so if you do buy off something like Gumtree or the bay, make sure you find out which it is. My SDI is an S model, so central locking, electric windows etc and supposedly better resale value. Don't be put off an E model though, I had a pov spec 1.0 and to be honest, I didn't miss central locking or electric windows. That said, it's nice that I have them now

Absolutely not. I took it for its first motorway run this week. I remember someone on here saying they are great on the motorway, and by god they are. At 70Mph, it was doing roughly 2500 revs. Hardly anything for a diesel. I think my petrol 1.0 used to be doing about 4000 at 70 lol. Between 80-85, it did 3000 revs. It certainly didn't feel strained at all. The fastest I went was 85, which was only because it was the M6 at 7am and as you can imagine, that was about the fastest you could go. The thing that really impressed me was I sat mostly in the fast lane with Merc's, Beamers, Passat's, and I certainly didn't feel out of place. I remember taking the 1.0 in the fast lane, big mistake. If we were doing 70 and someone pulled away in front, I'd put my foot down and nothing would happen. The guy in front would be getting further and further away and I'd still be crawling up to 80, I'd certainly feel a bit of a nugget. Nothing like that in the SDI. Every time someone put their foot down, I had no problem keeping up with them; the response time at that speed was excellent and nobody pulled away from me. They aren't brilliant at the low end, but between 50-80 ish, I think that is where they are in their comfort zone and that is where you will get your acceleration. For most of the trip, I kept it at a steady 70, as was the speed of the traffic in the fast lane. There were the odd moments where I took it up to 80-85, just because I had to, but the traffic quite quickly returned to 70. When I filled up, I was surprised to see I got 62MPG. Not bad eh? I imagine I'd have got a better MPG had I not taken it up to 80-85 those couple of times, but you can't really complain at 62MPG

SP reference. I like!

The million pound question and one that everyone asks me Silver... the answer? Timing, Time and Knowledge. Timing - The only reason I actually used the green machine to commute was due to the disdain I have for National Rail (oh and the fact I liked the comfort of my pov spec Lupo ). For one, I don't like paying for a service where I get treated like dogshit found on the bottom of someone's shoes. However, using the trains was always an alternative for when the car went in for a service. Then work dropped a massive bombshell, a couple of days before the crash in fact. I was in-line to be moved to the new office opening in the upcoming two weeks... around 2.5 miles away from the main office I was in. Not much difference in a car (less than 5 mins), but the main office is a 30 second walk from the local train station (we actually share the same post code), a 2.5 mile walk didn't sound fun and nor did a bus journey. I was left with no option. I needed a car if I was to get to work on time, so I bought the red Lupo! Time - I did buy the red Lupo with the intention of selling it straight after I fixed up the green machine, but then... as with life, I realized that I just didn't have the time to do it. I spent a month pricing up parts. They were mostly aftermarket replacements that were unsprayed. I had a company in Stoke called Volksmine phoning me every time a Taffeta green coloured part came in stock. I was certainly getting well prepared to do the job... then I began to feel like I was fighting a losing battle. By the time I had every part ready to be ordered, the car had already been sitting for near 3 weeks, taking up space on someone else's drive. Someone who was far too bloody charitable, if you ask me. Of course, if I'd ordered the parts, I would have to fit them... which goes onto my next point. Knowledge - I'm not bad car knowledge wise. I know my way around, sort of, and have a fairly good grasp of most things. That isn't enough to suffice a job like this. This needed someone with a professional level of knowledge or at least someone with experience. Someone with the ability to remove the damaged parts safely and fit the new parts without resulting in massive panel gaps and vibration problems. Plenty of people on here are qualified to do that Silver. There's guys on here, even amateurs who are far beyond the level of knowledge I possess... at that point, I bottled it and listed it on here. I figured someone might take it off me and fix up a perfect 1.0 Lupo. Y'know, if you look at my advert on the Classifieds, it was listed over a month after the accident occurred. I mulled over fixing it for at least a month, as I priced up parts, considered when I could do it and most importantly, if I could do it. In the end, I gave up. I said I can't do it and after no response on here, I very reluctantly called the insurance company. I normally make these phone calls on my break at work and I would never forget due to their importance... but I was so reluctant, I actually forgot three or four days in a row after I made the final decision. It was like I was subconsciously trying to stop myself. Ultimately, it needed to go though. In truth, the saddest thing is, they'll break it. I can't see them selling it as a damaged repaired. They'll take a potentially very good car, with a perfect interior, shove it in a scrapyard somewhere, neglect it and break it for parts. Makes me shudder to be honest. I've seen a couple of other Lupos at scrapyards. The interiors are always fubar because the blokes end up throwing bits of junk on the seats, use them as a storage facility. Funnily enough I did have a buy back option off the assessor, 50 quid. 50 ****ing quid, considering the offer he'd made, it was nothing! Absolutely nothing when you consider the parts alone, but unfortunately, the charity of free space had expired which meant it'd have to sit on the road. Untaxed, uninsured... nicked within a week I reckon. I regret it, I really do. One day where I was a bit too cocky in the ice and I ruined a ****ing great car

No doubt, if you can achieve 45MPG in a GTI, that is a very respectable figure. I probably didn't get than in my 1.0L (got 41-43 usually). With regards to the price of Diesel, the gap is lessening. In some places, I've seen Diesel as little as 2p more than petrol. For the 65MPG I get quite consistently, I'm saving quite a bit overall. I worked out that by driving my SDI, on a usual run, I can save up to £2 a day. As you can imagine, over the course of a few months, that is a reasonable amount. Plus, the initial price of my SDI was very very competitive whereas GTI's are always going to warrant a higher price tag. People might be a little bit put off by that. I don't think it's just to do with fuel prices. I've maybe over emphasized that a little, I think it's one thing that makes people think though. It is something that 10 years ago, people worried about less. It's also one of the reasons I think IF VW re-released the 3L Lupo, it would probably sell like crazy. A non-hybrid car that can do 90+ MPG...

I think the reason GTi's are at rock bottom is the same as why a lot of other petrol cars (especially big engine ones) are going down in price... fuel costs. When I was looking for another Lupo, I couldn't believe the price you could get 2 and 2.5 litre petrol BMW's, Civics etc, all in good condition, with reasonable mileage. They have plummeted price wise in the last few years. Speed might be everything to Jeremy Clarkson, but if you're doing the same 76 mile a trip day to work, like I do, a GTi is simply the wrong car. If I was doing a shorter run, perhaps I'd go for a Lupo GTi, despite the fact I'd probably pay near 1k for insurance. The point I'm making is people are far more aware of fuel economy nowadays. Commuters are especially careful. Where I work, very few live in the surrounding area as it costs near a million to buy a house and there's a trend in the cars people use. Numerous people drive Golf Blue motion, a few have the Passat Blue motion, quite a few have the economical model Ford Mondeo, I have the Lupo SDI, there's a Polo SDI too, one guy has a Prius and there's a whole load of other reasonably priced, reasonably economical cars sitting on the car park. Get my drift? Some people (especially commuters) are picking MPG over speed, especially with fuel prices soaring. Only one guy I work with drives a petrol guzzler... he has an MX5 and up until a 6 months ago, he paid £20 A DAY, to get to work. He's since moved much closer to the area and tries to avoid driving at all using whatever public transport he can, so his car isn't even on the car park now. If I was to judge, I'd say the most un-economical car on there at the moment is probably a Ford KA (they only do like 35 MPG). Some people don't worry about what they pay at the pumps, and to them, I say good on you. Please keep the GTi's in good nick, don't scrap them or crash them, because one day, I want one.

Well, I guess it depends on the company but I know my mate is having a nightmare with Churchill, that old dog seems to be a lot friendlier on the advert than in real life. In January, I had an unfortunate accident in my green machine. Despite desperately trying to find someone to buy it as a non-cat declared repair, it has now been taken away for a claim. Would have been a great car to fix up. I reckon the engine had anywhere from 80k-100k miles left in it, as I'd always had it regularly serviced and used only the best quality oil... plus it had a brand new cambelt, new water pump, brand new windscreen (only fitted a month before), new aftermarket high capacity battery, 4 Michelin tyres, the newer brake light switch that is more reliable, new lambda sensor, new throttle position sensor, a newer and better temperature sensor, new three piece high quality exhaust fitted by staffs tire and battery, new headlights, an absolutely perfect interior + a whole load of other things that screamed "buy me, fix me for about 250 quid (unsprayed parts I priced up from various vendors) and you've got a pretty much perfect 1.0 Lupo worth just over a thousand" but nobody wanted it, people (including those on here) are happy to buy tatty, scraped 1.0 Lupo's (and Arosas) with 150k miles for £800, but wouldn't even consider mine which, when fixed up, would have been an absolutely perfect low mileage Lupo. There was no pre-accident damage, it was begging to be fixed and restored to it's state. Anyway (my own rant over)... so yep, it's had to go as a claim, the last thing I wanted to do. Considering the way some insurance companies have been slippery with customers, I thought these might cause me problems: I had a number of non-decorative stickers on the car, one for Lifeboats charity, one for Help for Heroes and another for the Army Benevolent Fund.I had one decorative sticker, a Club Lupo one above the Lupo logo.Just before being taken away by the recovery firm from my house, I switched the brand new, never seen the road, spare wheel with a Michelin tyre on, for a very worn, very battered rim with a barely legal tyre on that had been outside my house for the past 12 months. (Risky admittedly as I wasn't convinced it was road legal)They got back to me a week later, no problem made me an offer, it's been settled and a cheque will be in the post soon enough. Clearly if you go with a reputable company with a good reputation (Google can be a saint for that), you'll be okay. Oh and by the way, for what it's worth, they paid out the highest value they could pay for a Lupo with this reg plate, which is what the guy on the phone referred to as 'Dealer Value'. He explained the way they work is by using Glasses guide, which provides market value which they usually knock money off based on the amount of pre-accident damage. He said if a car has perfect body work prior to the accident, immaculate inside etc and would be worth more than what would be considered market value based on the age, they can up the offer to 'Dealer Value' which is what it would be priced at in a car dealership. It's not much more on a car as old as my old Lupo (just over £100) I think, but it just shows someone could have got a real belter.

I'll let you know on Saturday Mine has started playing up, but I think it's just the water jet, it doesn't spray water, just sort of bubbles out of the top. I'm going strip it, clean it, put it back on, I'm sure it'll be fine, then yep, I'll PM you, let you know

This 206 had a ****ed engine, but he lied about tonnes of ****, all of it quite serious. He said the engine had no compression and that the fix was to simply change the MAF sensor, a 10 minute fix costing £30. If it's a 10 minute fix costing £30... why hasn't the guy selling it fixed it? The car was photographed in a commercial garage, surrounded by tools, equipment and other cars. The contact details were for a second hand car dealer that also offer to service and MOT... it's not as if they don't have the facilities to do such a job. The reason why is because he was talking utter ****. A faulty MAF sensor won't lead to a loss of compression. No compression? No ifs, buts or maybes, it's a ****ed engine; be it valves, rings, cracked head, whatever. My worry was that some poor sod might fall for this complete con. He also claimed the airbag light is on because the steering wheel was changed (in small letters at the bottom it said 'this car is a cat c' riiiiiiiight... so about that airbag light... Steering wheel, or front-ender?). He also said that the genuine mileage is 55k, but mileometer says 160k because the speedo was changed. (That's a good one). So yep, a complete bullshitter of the highest order.

How much did you sell it for out of curiosity? or would you rather keep that private? The guy sounds like your typical conman dealer. There's plenty of them on eBay. I spotted one the other day selling an 05 Peugeot 206 Zest. He'd clearly lied in the description about various problems that were with the car. Some of them were major problems that may result in the car being eventually scrapped, but he intentionally disguised them as little problems. Luckily nobody bid on it.