Evening all!
So our Cooper S just wasn’t cutting it after only getting it 6/7 months ago. To be honest, I knew it wasn’t right about a month after getting it but seeing as I didn’t drive it everyday, I thought I’ll let it slide and worry about it in a year or so. It did everything well, took us to Dublin comfortably with a few suitcases and was a hoot to drive. Alas, when my wife said she wasn’t keen, that was like a green light to go car shopping!
I looked at many, some good, some not so good GTD’s. I love Carbon Grey and wanted to hold out for the right car. The first was in Ballyrobert on sunny Sunday afternoon with no salesman pestering us lol. For a car with 15k miles, I wasn’t impressed. Looked at others and they came and went, probably missed a few good ones including a DSG in Philips.
Fast forward to last Saturday, we viewed one in TJ Hamilton. Not exactly close (1.5hrs away!). However, the saleman has sent me a wee video on Friday and it looked good. Took it a decent spin on Saturday where he encouraged me to ‘drive’ it (within speed limits of course)
We went back to discuss figures, the not so good part. Anyway, after a lot of phone calls discussing what needed done to the car and price, we secured it on Thursday.
Hope to pick it up next Saturday, followed by a road trip up the North Coast after! Can’t wait!
Some specs
Nav model
Keyless entry/start
Heated seats
Better quality screen pixelation (is that a word?)
Tartan cloth (preferred this over leather)
All the other GTD stuff, sensors front and rear etc.
Here’s a few pictures from the day
No real plans as it sits as I want it. However, would like to maybe change the wheels to Santiago’s when the tyres wear down on this set. Means I can take them with me to a mk7.5!
A decent clean and just enjoy it really.
I’ll update when I get it next week
Michael
So our Cooper S just wasn’t cutting it after only getting it 6/7 months ago. To be honest, I knew it wasn’t right about a month after getting it but seeing as I didn’t drive it everyday, I thought I’ll let it slide and worry about it in a year or so. It did everything well, took us to Dublin comfortably with a few suitcases and was a hoot to drive. Alas, when my wife said she wasn’t keen, that was like a green light to go car shopping!
I looked at many, some good, some not so good GTD’s. I love Carbon Grey and wanted to hold out for the right car. The first was in Ballyrobert on sunny Sunday afternoon with no salesman pestering us lol. For a car with 15k miles, I wasn’t impressed. Looked at others and they came and went, probably missed a few good ones including a DSG in Philips.
Fast forward to last Saturday, we viewed one in TJ Hamilton. Not exactly close (1.5hrs away!). However, the saleman has sent me a wee video on Friday and it looked good. Took it a decent spin on Saturday where he encouraged me to ‘drive’ it (within speed limits of course)
We went back to discuss figures, the not so good part. Anyway, after a lot of phone calls discussing what needed done to the car and price, we secured it on Thursday.
Hope to pick it up next Saturday, followed by a road trip up the North Coast after! Can’t wait!
Some specs
Nav model
Keyless entry/start
Heated seats
Better quality screen pixelation (is that a word?)
Tartan cloth (preferred this over leather)
All the other GTD stuff, sensors front and rear etc.
Here’s a few pictures from the day
No real plans as it sits as I want it. However, would like to maybe change the wheels to Santiago’s when the tyres wear down on this set. Means I can take them with me to a mk7.5!
A decent clean and just enjoy it really.
I’ll update when I get it next week
Michael
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