This BB doesn't get the traffic it used to and we all know why -fewer B6's on the road, many have moved on as the platform ages, mileage and age on cars increases and values drop. Most all questions and problems long ago addressed and solved.
My car is probably worth £1100. I consider that valuation to be nonsense. Through this calendar year I've spent money on refurbing the alloys, new front wings (which were supplied so well Dolphin-Grey colour matched this is is frankly amazing to consider their paint is a few months old whilst the panel next to it is nearly 20 years old). If I sat you inside the car, exception from the cassette player (!!!) and wind-down windows in the back, with the chrome trim carbon wrapped (as I have done), well if I told you this car had done 20k miles I think you'd believe me...
I've owned and waxed the car 16 years, it's been my one and only daily through the years of 1.5k business miles a month, to sat doing nothing during covid and everything in between. I paid £16.5k for it. I've grown with the car. I've looked after it instead of getting bored with it. The first car I've ever done any work to. Starting with servicing. Brakes. The gaskets and the sensors that drop out at around 90k miles. Basic stuff compared to many knowledgeable posters on here, though progress for me. This website has saved me so much money thanks to the contributions of others. The car looks as it does inside and out because I have insisted on it. My choice.
I still look back at it in the car park, every time. Still love driving it (with the Revo tune). I always tell my family: "I know what it is. It's a an 18 year old car with a cassette player, but I love it"! I've told them all I'm keeping it until at least 200k (odometer currently 184k) though I know a fresh target lies beyond. I suspect many of the remaining drivers of this platform do so out of choice. We could go out and throw another £Xk or £XXk at a new car, but for what? A load of additional liability and cost for a newer plate? New cars just don't do it for me. Their aesthetics. Design ID's. Screens instead of buttons and dials. Nah.
So, yeah. That's me. Long time B6 owner still feeling like I did in the first month of ownership. The guy driving a 2004 car. We usually log in here with our problems but, I hope that all of you are still enjoying the B6 as much as I do.
My car is probably worth £1100. I consider that valuation to be nonsense. Through this calendar year I've spent money on refurbing the alloys, new front wings (which were supplied so well Dolphin-Grey colour matched this is is frankly amazing to consider their paint is a few months old whilst the panel next to it is nearly 20 years old). If I sat you inside the car, exception from the cassette player (!!!) and wind-down windows in the back, with the chrome trim carbon wrapped (as I have done), well if I told you this car had done 20k miles I think you'd believe me...
I've owned and waxed the car 16 years, it's been my one and only daily through the years of 1.5k business miles a month, to sat doing nothing during covid and everything in between. I paid £16.5k for it. I've grown with the car. I've looked after it instead of getting bored with it. The first car I've ever done any work to. Starting with servicing. Brakes. The gaskets and the sensors that drop out at around 90k miles. Basic stuff compared to many knowledgeable posters on here, though progress for me. This website has saved me so much money thanks to the contributions of others. The car looks as it does inside and out because I have insisted on it. My choice.
I still look back at it in the car park, every time. Still love driving it (with the Revo tune). I always tell my family: "I know what it is. It's a an 18 year old car with a cassette player, but I love it"! I've told them all I'm keeping it until at least 200k (odometer currently 184k) though I know a fresh target lies beyond. I suspect many of the remaining drivers of this platform do so out of choice. We could go out and throw another £Xk or £XXk at a new car, but for what? A load of additional liability and cost for a newer plate? New cars just don't do it for me. Their aesthetics. Design ID's. Screens instead of buttons and dials. Nah.
So, yeah. That's me. Long time B6 owner still feeling like I did in the first month of ownership. The guy driving a 2004 car. We usually log in here with our problems but, I hope that all of you are still enjoying the B6 as much as I do.
