Going to look at this one Saturday... its in my budget, 2009 with just over 3k on the clock, will try and knock them down a bit but unless i see anything dodgy I will be buying it.

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Ooh that looks nice. Yellow mk3s are very rare....wasn't even sure if they sold yellow ones here at all, but perhaps they did for one year only.

Hi Funky, I hope it all stacks up mate.

As a matter of interest, what's the crack with yours?

Written off in the RTA, they wanted £1800 if I bought it back and repaired myself... their estimate for repair was £3700 so I decided it was not worth the hassle. If I get this one this weekend I'll have room to spare in the pay out to add a lighter exhaust etc.

That's a shame, I really liked the white scheme you'd done with it.

Well it only cost me £110ish to do that one and am factoring in a unique color change on the next one

I live in Leeds, near center kinda of, need a hand ?

MrGrumpy wrote:Ooh that looks nice. Yellow mk3s are very rare....wasn't even sure if they sold yellow ones here at all, but perhaps they did for one year only.

2009 model year I reckon.

I remember sitting on one at the NEC in December 2008.

SOLO wrote:I live in Leeds, near center kinda of, need a hand ?

Thanks SOLO, I'll see how this other one in Norwich goes at the weekend, if I don't end up buying it then I might take you up on the offer