257,593 mile Golf GL
Posted: Sep Sun 30, 2012 5:50 pm
Lots of mileage history here!
I bought this car on January, 11, 2001 (I was 19y/o) in Santa Maria, CA for $5000 off a used car lot when I was stationed on Vandenburg AFB. Drove it up and down the CA coast line once and to LA numerous times. Drove it home to PA on leave. 3000mi in 3 days. Then to Minot, ND for my first duty station, then back and forth from ND to PA several times, beat it most of time. Threw the rivets out of the tranmission 4 times. Moved to AR with it, then moved to PA with it, then moved back to ND with it. I sold it to a friend for $1500 who wanted to mod it, he trashed it and it sat needing front brakes, I helped sell it to a diff friend who was down on his luck, he drove it until it needed rear pads. then a fellow bought it and it died on him. I found it on a local forum with a asking price of $1800 because the wheels were custom chrome wheels
. I offered him $400 and he could keep the wheels.Deal. He said it would crank but wont start. I got in it and it started right up. No issues other than it needing rear brakes and a power steering pump. Not sure why the no start issue. I replaced both and I have been daily driving it ever since. It not a show car, its a car that if gets scratched or dinged, then oh well. My dogs can be muddy and I dont freak out when they get in. 
Some pix of it over the years. I have a ton of them, but will only upload a few.
From 2001 to 2005 it had two different sets of of wheels. The Motegi MR-7 where the first wheels I bought for it in 2001, then the MOMOs. I had the Motegis the longest.
As it sits today.
My plans:
Keep it going! It needs a windshield washer pump and a front lip.
I bought this car on January, 11, 2001 (I was 19y/o) in Santa Maria, CA for $5000 off a used car lot when I was stationed on Vandenburg AFB. Drove it up and down the CA coast line once and to LA numerous times. Drove it home to PA on leave. 3000mi in 3 days. Then to Minot, ND for my first duty station, then back and forth from ND to PA several times, beat it most of time. Threw the rivets out of the tranmission 4 times. Moved to AR with it, then moved to PA with it, then moved back to ND with it. I sold it to a friend for $1500 who wanted to mod it, he trashed it and it sat needing front brakes, I helped sell it to a diff friend who was down on his luck, he drove it until it needed rear pads. then a fellow bought it and it died on him. I found it on a local forum with a asking price of $1800 because the wheels were custom chrome wheels
. I offered him $400 and he could keep the wheels.Deal. He said it would crank but wont start. I got in it and it started right up. No issues other than it needing rear brakes and a power steering pump. Not sure why the no start issue. I replaced both and I have been daily driving it ever since. It not a show car, its a car that if gets scratched or dinged, then oh well. My dogs can be muddy and I dont freak out when they get in. Some pix of it over the years. I have a ton of them, but will only upload a few.
From 2001 to 2005 it had two different sets of of wheels. The Motegi MR-7 where the first wheels I bought for it in 2001, then the MOMOs. I had the Motegis the longest.
As it sits today.
My plans:
Keep it going! It needs a windshield washer pump and a front lip.