205GTiquest is ON

Well thats sorted then. Picking this up on Wednesday.










9 hours round trip. Have Hird a recovery truck for they day. I had no idea that was a thing but it's from my home town and a very reasonably £105 for a day (plus fuel and a long distance supplement) still better than a five hour trek in track car though!

That looks great.
Hope collection goes well and it’s all you are expecting.
James

Well that was a mission.

Hired a transporter locally for a very reasonable £105 for the day plus some excess milage. Swindon > Carlisle > Swindon in one long day.
Van munched up the miles and 4 and a half uneventful hours later I was pleased to discover the car was every bit as good as the pics made it look, if not better. It really is phenomenally clean and tidy.
Loaded car onto transporter and filled every spare space with wheels. Long 5 hour trip back and we are home.

car is a 1.6 GTi with a 1.9 transplant. Bilstein tarmac suspension all round and full cage and standard engine wise its standard 1.9

Came with the set of gold 1.6 alloys with gravel tyres
set of yellow 1.6 alloys
set of mint fresh 1.6 alloys with superb laquerin etc and four new tyres and
set of mint condition 1.9 alloys with four new tyres.

First thing will to be to decide if I'm going with the mint 1.6 alloys or the 1.9s. I love the look of the 1.9s. I cant remember if they fit onto the 1.6 car easily though. Any thoughts?

Nice, if you ever consider getting a new bonnet the auto version has a nice hump in the middle. Looks very clean (very jealous, if I didn't have the mk2 I would have one of these as I miss having a 205)

Put the 1.6 alloys with their gravel tyres in the shed and banged on the 1.9 alloys.
Noice! I think.

Savage car Congrats & well done theres a fella on the youtube who sold his 2016 Bmw 1 series and bought a 205 gti to run as a daily you can find him at Number27 this week hes driving a PUG OFF 205 195bhp check it out wicked car

I've owned a

-205 GTi
-306 GTi-6
-106 GTi

All were great fun. Maybe the 205 was the sweet spot, but the other two were great as well.

The engine and 'box are what I remember from the 306. Once you got the changes right, that car just flew! A great handler too and practical, albeit more grown up.

The 106 had a terrible driving position, but all was forgiven when you poked the loud pedal.

I can breakdown what goes wrong on them if you wish, but I'd consider another car if you can stretch to it. A 309 GTi16. They will always be worth more than 205 GTis. They are a factory mi16 converted car. Naturally, that does give you downsides

-They are rare and almost unheard of
-They are left hand drive only
-Spares as said will be tricky to get.
-I've almost never seen one for sale in the UK. They do occasionally pop up in France however.

EDIT : Just seen you've bought one. Nice!

looks a very presentable example, set up for road rally by the look of it, though not used int he lanes a lot if at all as its so clean!

does it have guards?

the 15" wheels whilst a little heavier does give much easier tyre choice these days, for road use stick to Michelin is my preference, stickier stuff there's loads about, Yokohama seem to outperform the likes of toyo though at a little extra for road legal stuff, competition tyres is a different world lol

I think the 1.9 was 7.8 0-60 when new so it's not fast in a straight line, it's all about the corners. Quiet roundabouts are a good place to find the edge of grip, make sure you have good tyres otherwise the grip will be limited by the tyres rather than the car.