No no no - the budget is 1000£ boys! That means you should make a SERIOUS attempt to fix it up for the last 600£. Fix the paint and rust for a few hundred quid, service the engine and breaks, buy a set of cheap (2nd hand?) tires/rims maybe, fix that interior (go to a scrapyard and spend 50£ on random stuff you think will fit - and bolt it on... Also you could probably find a half decent radio/speakers there too for next to no money). Give it all she's got as if you ACTUALLY wanted it to survive and go through another MOT - you know - as if you were a teen who had just borrowed 1000£ from mom to buy your first car - and you REALLY love it! Cmon make an effort - and I have a feeling you could take this one further than you would initially think! These cars were built pretty well - and you can fit A LOT of stuff on them which aren't even VW... Like most Skoda parts from around the same time will fit - and a lot of Vauxhall stuff too (etc.)... Frankenstein the hell out of it! 😀
@@Connor-s1k yeah - there are a lot of parts which can fit on it - so a trip to the junkyard is usually fruitful when messing with cars like this one 😀
@@adamcox13579 Yeah that could work as well as long as the make the prompt detailed enough. It needs to be made aware of the critical faults to give it any chance of being able to give a useful answer.
You need to convince them to do a wings west bodykit, candy White paint with robot riding a missile graphics and some lovely 19 inch Konig Tantrums. The only thing that could make the coolest example of a mk3 golf variant of the noughties better, is an estate back end 😎
It would be interesting to see if they could save it on a budget. They could probably get spare panels pretty easily. I had a purple 3 door as a first car and it was dead easy to work on.
Yeah, you just have to blind on one eye and squint with the other Jokes aside, it seems alright, but it would need a LOT of bodywork, rust repair, maintinance (oil, brakes...), mechanical attention and whatnot. At that point, you really have to ask yourself if its worth it.
Try to do all the beginner DIYs: - restore the faded black trims with a torch - restore the lights - some interior thingies The advanced: - rust repair - painting
100% agree the boys should use this as a "who gives a fuck we're learning" car if they want to, it's worth scrap, they can't make it worse, it's not like it isn't worth saving to some extent given they're like rocking horse shit so they might as well have a go Edit: And of course it'd make some banger content
Take it to Wolfsburg to find some parts! Or more: The whole of Europe collecting parts: tires from Michelin, engine parts from Germany, some body work in Bulgaria, some olive oil from Greece,…
DEFINITELY a resto series - but chuck a PD in it too so its a sleeper. Replace the doors, repair the sills, paint the bootlid, upgrade the brakes and shocks but keep the rusty steels
He's talking about the vag 1.9 tdi engine with the "PD" injection technology for those who wonder. Great idea though! I'd love to see a 1.9 tdi running on vegetable oil and I wonder if that would impact the max. power you could get with tuning it!
Volkswagen Golf Harlequin, Harlequin, the Volkswagen Golf Harlequin mixed and matched panels in four colors. 1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin. Special-edition, limited-run vehicles so year about right looks like this generation did have the Harlequin but it maybe not on estate so it could become the only one. all the paint needs doing why not go mad . this reg web says 1994-1995
I absolutely love these Golf 3 Variants, always been my favorite car. I've had one for 10 years now and selling it does not come into question. Please save this one, it'll be worth it as they're getting rarer and rarer nowadays, especially the 1995 pre-fl's.
If my experience with crappy cars has taught me anything, it's that you never EVER service it after you buy it. You don't change oil or coolant. You leave the original liquids in and simply add in some more IF needed. Same goes for belts and tensioners - you simply don't touch. The moment you do a complete service, the car will leave you at the side of the road. Leaks appear out of nowhere, horrible noises start lurking under the bonnet... all kinds of terrible things happen. So just leave it alone and it will endure the road trip.
Well done boys on the Mk3 golf estate ownership, I have one myself and my god is it lovely to drive, and rarer than you think aswell. There's under 200 Mk3 golf estates left in the UK at the moment with someone in Essex exporting them off to USA and mine being the 1.9d (1y) there's only 20 wagons on the road with my engine in. Looking forward to see if you do anything with scarlet the steed😊
This thing is great because literally anything you do will make it better. I'd love to see you try to fix the major rust spots then maybe a rattle can respray? Cheap headliner fix? Stuff that we could do on the cheap as an audience
Reminds me of my Dad's car. A diesel 2001 Volkswagen Jetta TDI (manual transmission) with almost 300,000km on the odometer. It's in much better condition though; not much rust, though a lot of grease over where the rust is developing, the vents blow foam at you when you turn the fan up but otherwise the car runs great; drove for over 750km on a single tank of diesel just a few weeks ago and the fuel light didn't even come on when I got home. Mind you, my dad does get the car serviced as needed, but really only the engine.
A MK3 1.8 75hp was my first car. Not the wagon though, but it was red as well. It was a 93, so one of the earlier ones. I've had it for 5 years I believe. It was a sad day when I got rid of it. It had way more rust than yours, the engine was VERY unhappy. The whole time I've had it I got around 12-15L/100km for not that much performance at all. In the end it wouldn't run right, had electrical issues due to my various subwoofer, radio and speaker installs, was rusted to absolute hell and every bushing imaginable was worn out. Greatest car I ever had. I got it for 70€ and want one again. Sadly most of them fell victim to rust, and the ones that are not completely shit, are way expensive.
Loving this channel and the content you guys are creating. Top job. There was, of course, just one omission in this video....Ethan....you need to pull that cap and check it in the next one.... 😂
What a gem of a car, definitely needs some love but that’s why you guys have got it, would love to see the rest of the budget spent on tarting it up, great content 👌
Can you paint that white and put some stickers on it. I had a strange idea the other day of a certain movie car in an estate, and I can't be bothered to photophobia it. So if you could movie rep that it would save me time 😂
Judging from the square indicators on the wing / fender it is a early one 1994 or 1995 that’s almost 30 years old. Had a late 1996 2.0 GL facelift (bumpers fully in body color) with a bit of kit (AC, sunroof, electric windows, mirrors, 16 inch BBS alloys) drove it in 2005 as a cheap student car and had a lot of fun with it, time flies.
Oh yes, road trips with this would be great! Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if it made it as well. As your good friend Alex has a very good connection with Yorkshire car restoration I'm sure he can squeeze this one in before Phil is send there.😅 Would be great if it could be done as a restomod.
Watch out for Royal Mail trucks when Jack is driving! As others have said- let’s see where the rest of your budget goes to getting this rare wagon lightly restored and ready for a new home.
I remember someone near me had one of these and I used to think it was the absolute bomb. This one is more ‘engine-grenade-y’ than ‘bomb’ but I still love it! Take it on the NC500! Can’t be any worse than what the locals up here drive.
I had a diesel one of those a year younger until 2010 when the clutch ate the teeth from the flywheel, and push starting it was really difficult. The key switch failed and I had to install a big red button to start it with. Wasn't very powerful but good for moving stuff around.
FOR CONTEXT... I went froma Mk4 Ford Escort 1.4L to a same year VW Polo 1.3 Classic (2 door saloont - with proper boot), and Polo felt 🤔... More 'Solidly built', handled better, drove better, just... Better overall! I miss that car... 😔 😎🇬🇧
In Bulgaria we have a quite lot of these variants. I personally own one. GT special edition with ABT front end and absolutely love it. If you take good care of it is very relatable and can last you pretty much forever. Honestly as un enthusiast I would buy that car as a restoration project.
Am I horrible for preferring this to the Iceland trip? This is my kind of "Tele". As for the Golf; Stands on its four wheels quite healthily, seems to not be too wallowy, has some service history, engine runs sweet. Knackered brakes and an exhaust leak is all, really. I don't expect it to let you down at ALL.
Turn this one into a rat rod sleeper car. Like, engine swap it with something more powerful and replace the suspension/exhaust/... under the chassis, fix everything that needs fixing to make the chassis solid and then clear-coat the paint as it is. Fix the inside until it looks decent (the headlining...) and that's it.
It's a great car for a road trip. As in go on the one road trip and allow it to finish its' descent to iron oxide powder shortly after that trip. You should have asked for the best car for a road trip and then daily driving after the road trip. With specifics as to the nature of your usage and your preferences.
I reckon you need to spend the rest of the money making a true scarlet stallion, maybe a roof rack, some rally fog lights, mud flaps, chunky tyres, and have some fun painting the roof and bonnet with some DIY artwork or something?
Had a 1991 Jeep wrangler that (kind of) survived a hurricane in worse condition. It had lots of speed holes and had to wiggle wires under the dash to make it work. Your little vw will do just fine. It’ll make it on a road trip, no worries!!
I want you to take this car to the south of France for one last trip to the sea. This is one of the best cheap car purchase videos I’ve seen. So glad you guys started this channel
An M reg Golf Mk3 CL was the car that we owned for the shortest time. Bought brand new we px'd it for a Honda Civic Coupe after only 9 months. Although the engine was a mighty 1.8cc, it was no faster than the 1.3 Golf Mk2 it replaced.
PLEASE!! Can you go on a roadtrip out of the UK? like the Flemish region of Belgium or even the north of France. It is still "cheap" and close to your homeland. One of the best episodes ever for me, was when you two and Alex visited Belgium, that was the spirit I'd like to see more here. "Hopefully not just Scotland and the Nurburgring each week..." PS: The Humour...LOVE THIS!!
Rust spot on replaceable very common fenders and doors. It's fine. Bring a blow torch and light it near all plastic parts and you get them back to black again
For the faded plastics try Black Trim Wax (I think it is from Carplan and about £6-ish from B&Q). We have a plastic planter that was lighter in colour than your bumper so I tried thd black trim wax on it and it stained it black. That was about 4 years ago and it is still almost as black as it was when I first did it.
Somehow the engine noise reminds me of the noise of the great great grand father of the Golf: the original Type 1 Beetle... quite fitting, but maybe not really what you would want from a Golf🐞😅 - Very much looking forward to the roadtrip episode! Also - I don't remember when I last saw one of those - could be that they are all gone here in Sweden too - or maybe they are so anomymous that my brain simply does not register them... 😅 Thank you for making me remember that they (did) exist...
Long ago my parents had mark 3 estate but that was 1.9tdi that engine can run on cooking oil and won't see any problems ever. You can put a remap on it and ir feels faster 😀
As someone who loves Peep Show and says 'shit muncher' all the time, the casual dropping of the phrase while i was cutting my nails with this on in the backgrpund caught me off guard and I was weak with laughter.
I'd get it mechanically sound, service, brakes and a set of rubber as those tyres look sketchy as hell and run it on the road trip. The body is rough (that's a given) but having MOT checked it, there's no mention of looming structural problems so do a rat rod road trip in it and have some fun.
If you're going to do more of the AI series, it could be worth getting together with some of the other channels and training up your own AutomotiveAI. I don't mean use ChatGPT but get someone to code it for you, and it can use the manuals as well as magazines such as Max Power (Max was a great mag) to get the AI to learn real car stuff :-)
Im sentimental but I like it. I think you or TDC should fix the rust, don’t paint but maybe clear coat it? I like the patina. Maybe even upgrade it and make it a bit of a sleeper! I don’t know. I think it’s cool.
there is a p reg mk3 golf estate on marketplace for a grand as well it's in quite nice condition but very high mileage! Hope you end up saving this one!
Ah yes, faded red. One of the reasons my Civic got the Pinkey nickname :) Fix that thing up. I bet that would go forever with a bit.. okay, a lot of TLC. This could be your go to car if you have nothing else going on. A long, ongoing project that would slowly become the channel's mascot. Start collecting road trip stickers on the dash or back window :)
Boys, my father has a 1995 VW Vento (probably was called Jetta in your region) and it drove 1.2 million kilometers on a factory engine with zero engine rebuilds. The body needs work (it's very rusty), but still running! I wonder how much more will it drive until engine unalives itself
Hi Guys love your Videos. It would be a very unique idea for a Series: "The last Adventure". Where you guys buy old cars and make a last trip with it before it gets scraped (showing how the cars get scraped too). I thing people would love it. Best wishes from Austria (Vienna).
This was a good video idea, and a really fun video :) I'm excited to see more of the AI car! You guys love money-pits right? It'll go great with the porsche
i REALLY REALLY want those plastic door trims, the ones between the wheels, for my golf! i have a set but its missing a couple of bits and theyre super hard to find in the States
Great choice! Would buy one for sure, it just needs a little TLC :D At least you have more room than the Porsche. Not sure about the condensation issues though
I had a mint 1996 Golf Estate many years ago. It was firetruck red and had AC and a sunroof. I also had an awful white Golf with a 1,8 AAM-engine with 75 hp.
It reminds me the 200 quid Skoda from Epic car show. Both cars come from the same era (and the rust)! It would be even more epic to have a road trip with Scarlet and Felicia!
Ah yes GPT, it likes steeds doesn't it? I will never forget the time when it suggest I write my thesis on the effects of authentic leadership on steed turnover intentions!
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Please make it a sleeper build ;)
OOH, road trip Scarlet Steve back to Mother for a full restoration!
... VW doesn't need a heads up, just drop it off. 😁
I like this shit but can jou make it faster than Phil from auto alix??
No no no - the budget is 1000£ boys! That means you should make a SERIOUS attempt to fix it up for the last 600£. Fix the paint and rust for a few hundred quid, service the engine and breaks, buy a set of cheap (2nd hand?) tires/rims maybe, fix that interior (go to a scrapyard and spend 50£ on random stuff you think will fit - and bolt it on... Also you could probably find a half decent radio/speakers there too for next to no money).
Give it all she's got as if you ACTUALLY wanted it to survive and go through another MOT - you know - as if you were a teen who had just borrowed 1000£ from mom to buy your first car - and you REALLY love it! Cmon make an effort - and I have a feeling you could take this one further than you would initially think! These cars were built pretty well - and you can fit A LOT of stuff on them which aren't even VW... Like most Skoda parts from around the same time will fit - and a lot of Vauxhall stuff too (etc.)... Frankenstein the hell out of it! 😀
Don't forget audi, half my car is skoda and vw parts by now
@@Connor-s1k yeah - there are a lot of parts which can fit on it - so a trip to the junkyard is usually fruitful when messing with cars like this one 😀
Given this was the car AI wanted surely it's only fair to ask AI what 'improvements' to make with the leftover money.
I 100% agree with this. £600 to get it as mint as possible.
@@adamcox13579 Yeah that could work as well as long as the make the prompt detailed enough. It needs to be made aware of the critical faults to give it any chance of being able to give a useful answer.
You won't 1.8T swap this and put it on some Autostrada Modenas. You just won't.
You need to convince them to do a wings west bodykit, candy White paint with robot riding a missile graphics and some lovely 19 inch Konig Tantrums. The only thing that could make the coolest example of a mk3 golf variant of the noughties better, is an estate back end 😎
@@Billybob09871MK3 Golf Variant with an estate back end? A MK3 Golf Variant is an estate though
Actually AI should decides the mods/upgrades 😁
I didn't actually know Golf Variant was a thing. By mk3 golf variant I meant a Jetta/Vento, specifically Jesse's Jetta
@@lagmonster7789an Octavia estate with a boot build that’s actually just a Bitcoin mining setup 😅
Definitely a Restoration series……. And a *cough *cough a VR6 conversion
He's onto something...
Haha, leave the outside as is, swap in a vr6 and smooth the engine bay. TheScarlet Steed is great.
yes! way more interesting than another mx5 or shite that we see everyday
I was thinking GTi engine swap but VR6 is definitely a better shout!
Oh yes, imagine the noises
The MK3 Estate needs to be saved! I've already become emotionally attached to it
Buy it off them lol
Might be worth a bit of resto just for the rarity
It would be interesting to see if they could save it on a budget. They could probably get spare panels pretty easily. I had a purple 3 door as a first car and it was dead easy to work on.
@@HendrickT-bi4iw there seems to be a lot more mk3 golf's being broken for parts than there are for sale
Mk3’s do that to you XD
Looks like FB Marketplace is out of a job 😂
'Here is your car' Thanks, I really wanted a G-Wiz thats been under a tree for a decade
Craigslist is better than Facebook marketplace😊
Well done for bringing all of this to life... We do not need Top Gear now. BTW never doubt yourself again!
You've definitely lost the the crown for 'King of shitboxes' now 😂
Ethan Smale the new King of the shitbox 😂
this genuinely looks savable
Also cool as fuck, always liked the mk3. I mean not compared to a mk2 or mk4 but... I like them
Yeah, you just have to blind on one eye and squint with the other
Jokes aside, it seems alright, but it would need a LOT of bodywork, rust repair, maintinance (oil, brakes...), mechanical attention and whatnot. At that point, you really have to ask yourself if its worth it.
More saveable than Taylors mini was 😂
@@bednar23I'm not sure about that and its a MK3 golf it's terrible. MK2 yes MK4 yes MK3 na bin it.
This car and Betty could be best of friends because they both look like 💩 from the outside lol
Imagine turning that into a mark 3 gti wagon that would be sick
Supercharged mk3 Wagon would go hard, their Porsche 924 would have a ropey supercharged friend!
@@Simtatic I've heard you can fit a supercharger from an R53 Mini to one of these or at least the 2.0 8v engines with a small bit of fabrication
@@YegoYTPfrom what I've seen you can put that r53 supercharger on anything 😂
1.8T BAM.
Try to do all the beginner DIYs:
- restore the faded black trims with a torch
- restore the lights
- some interior thingies
The advanced:
- rust repair
- painting
All restoration advice must come from AI. Keep the theme going.
@@drunkenhobo8020 I think that the AI should decide what color the Golf should be painted 😂
100% agree the boys should use this as a "who gives a fuck we're learning" car if they want to, it's worth scrap, they can't make it worse, it's not like it isn't worth saving to some extent given they're like rocking horse shit so they might as well have a go
Edit: And of course it'd make some banger content
Some good plastic restoration products will bring those right back too
@@fridtjofriibe5961 Just linseed oil even will sort that right out
If Taylor managed to save the Mini and the wreck that was, Scarlett is very much saveable.
Scarlet rot more like with that rust
Have a crack at a resto on this, do the welding and stuff yourselves then painting 👀
Rattle can paintjob!
You have to give this car some love!!! Only two left on the road. It needs to be saved!
Not just any road trip. Take it to the mountains of Wales...
Take it to Wolfsburg to find some parts! Or more: The whole of Europe collecting parts: tires from Michelin, engine parts from Germany, some body work in Bulgaria, some olive oil from Greece,…
This car needs a restoration series!
@youtube2kwatcher nahh, way worse stuff was brought back to life
@@matasgr9991 Taylor's Mini, for example. The Mini is a fine car, but that one was more rust than metal.
DEFINITELY a resto series - but chuck a PD in it too so its a sleeper.
Replace the doors, repair the sills, paint the bootlid, upgrade the brakes and shocks but keep the rusty steels
He's talking about the vag 1.9 tdi engine with the "PD" injection technology for those who wonder.
Great idea though! I'd love to see a 1.9 tdi running on vegetable oil and I wonder if that would impact the max. power you could get with tuning it!
Throw the pd's in the bin.
Pre PD 1.9tdi's (AHU engine code) that came in this were just about the most reliable engines ever made.
Yeah but they were slower than a WW2 submarine 😂 PDs are pretty bombproof also, even at 250hp @mk2nathan
Pre PD so it can be run on veg oil and this will be a true cockroach car
@@TomoHawKzZPDs are over rated, a lot of issues with them.
Out of the triple UK group channel group thing majig. I feel like I'm on the same wave length as these two the most
Same! i love them all, but these guys really exude "goofball shtbox" vibes and I am here for it. 👍
Agreed, they’re very much the common British man
You’re both nailing this channel, interesting content and really entertaining - thriving!
I think that golf needs restoration and then painting in Royal Mail colours.
Errrm. I think that might give Jack some flashbacks.
Volkswagen Golf Harlequin, Harlequin, the Volkswagen Golf Harlequin mixed and matched panels in four colors. 1996 Volkswagen Golf Harlequin. Special-edition, limited-run vehicles so year about right looks like this generation did have the Harlequin but it maybe not on estate so it could become the only one. all the paint needs doing why not go mad . this reg web says 1994-1995
I absolutely love these Golf 3 Variants, always been my favorite car. I've had one for 10 years now and selling it does not come into question.
Please save this one, it'll be worth it as they're getting rarer and rarer nowadays, especially the 1995 pre-fl's.
If my experience with crappy cars has taught me anything, it's that you never EVER service it after you buy it. You don't change oil or coolant. You leave the original liquids in and simply add in some more IF needed. Same goes for belts and tensioners - you simply don't touch. The moment you do a complete service, the car will leave you at the side of the road. Leaks appear out of nowhere, horrible noises start lurking under the bonnet... all kinds of terrible things happen. So just leave it alone and it will endure the road trip.
I would like to see this thing restored I think is worth saving
Well done boys on the Mk3 golf estate ownership, I have one myself and my god is it lovely to drive, and rarer than you think aswell. There's under 200 Mk3 golf estates left in the UK at the moment with someone in Essex exporting them off to USA and mine being the 1.9d (1y) there's only 20 wagons on the road with my engine in. Looking forward to see if you do anything with scarlet the steed😊
I have a mk 3 1.9d CL in candy white I inherited from my dad. Hoping to get it back on the road
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This thing is great because literally anything you do will make it better. I'd love to see you try to fix the major rust spots then maybe a rattle can respray? Cheap headliner fix? Stuff that we could do on the cheap as an audience
Reminds me of my Dad's car. A diesel 2001 Volkswagen Jetta TDI (manual transmission) with almost 300,000km on the odometer. It's in much better condition though; not much rust, though a lot of grease over where the rust is developing, the vents blow foam at you when you turn the fan up but otherwise the car runs great; drove for over 750km on a single tank of diesel just a few weeks ago and the fuel light didn't even come on when I got home. Mind you, my dad does get the car serviced as needed, but really only the engine.
I cannot tell you both how much I'm enjoying this channel 😊
A MK3 1.8 75hp was my first car. Not the wagon though, but it was red as well. It was a 93, so one of the earlier ones.
I've had it for 5 years I believe. It was a sad day when I got rid of it.
It had way more rust than yours, the engine was VERY unhappy. The whole time I've had it I got around 12-15L/100km for not that much performance at all.
In the end it wouldn't run right, had electrical issues due to my various subwoofer, radio and speaker installs, was rusted to absolute hell and every bushing imaginable was worn out.
Greatest car I ever had. I got it for 70€ and want one again. Sadly most of them fell victim to rust, and the ones that are not completely shit, are way expensive.
Loving this channel and the content you guys are creating. Top job. There was, of course, just one omission in this video....Ethan....you need to pull that cap and check it in the next one.... 😂
What a gem of a car, definitely needs some love but that’s why you guys have got it, would love to see the rest of the budget spent on tarting it up, great content 👌
Can you paint that white and put some stickers on it. I had a strange idea the other day of a certain movie car in an estate, and I can't be bothered to photophobia it. So if you could movie rep that it would save me time 😂
Yeah, movie rep the shitbox, it's already knackered, whats to loose
Oh, yes please, Jesse would have loved a wagon
If he had a wagon he would have one that race 😂
I genuinely want that car, the more rust they showed the more I want it. There must be something wrong with me.
Judging from the square indicators on the wing / fender it is a early one 1994 or 1995 that’s almost 30 years old. Had a late 1996 2.0 GL facelift (bumpers fully in body color) with a bit of kit (AC, sunroof, electric windows, mirrors, 16 inch BBS alloys) drove it in 2005 as a cheap student car and had a lot of fun with it, time flies.
Oh yes, road trips with this would be great! Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if it made it as well.
As your good friend Alex has a very good connection with Yorkshire car restoration I'm sure he can squeeze this one in before Phil is send there.😅 Would be great if it could be done as a restomod.
Loved my mk3 golfs, yours is similar condition to my last one, gaffa tape to get it through the MOT. So comfortable to drive, really want another.
Watch out for Royal Mail trucks when Jack is driving!
As others have said- let’s see where the rest of your budget goes to getting this rare wagon lightly restored and ready for a new home.
I remember someone near me had one of these and I used to think it was the absolute bomb. This one is more ‘engine-grenade-y’ than ‘bomb’ but I still love it! Take it on the NC500! Can’t be any worse than what the locals up here drive.
Would like to see bringing this car up to shape before camping, this is completely savable
I had a diesel one of those a year younger until 2010 when the clutch ate the teeth from the flywheel, and push starting it was really difficult.
The key switch failed and I had to install a big red button to start it with.
Wasn't very powerful but good for moving stuff around.
I think The Scarlet Steed has to ride again
I had one of those in the same colour and also on an M plate. 😃 although it was the Oldskool TD (not TDI). Great workhorse!
A quick cheeky respray, some new exhaust gaskets+gun gum and an oil change, and this thing is sweet as a nut
FOR CONTEXT... I went froma Mk4 Ford Escort 1.4L to a same year VW Polo 1.3 Classic (2 door saloont - with proper boot), and Polo felt 🤔... More 'Solidly built', handled better, drove better, just... Better overall! I miss that car... 😔 😎🇬🇧
Oh my god yes! I miss my MK3 so much! I've had 12 of them! Please sell to me when you're done 🤣
In Bulgaria we have a quite lot of these variants. I personally own one. GT special edition with ABT front end and absolutely love it. If you take good care of it is very relatable and can last you pretty much forever. Honestly as un enthusiast I would buy that car as a restoration project.
I think doing a restoration on this would be really cool.
So happy to see this! I’ve got a mk3 gti anniversary and it’s so rare to see Mk3’s anymore! Good buy lads, please save her!
No way!!! I've recently bought a 3dr 16v anni myself. Absolutely love it and have big plans to turn it into a showcar ready for next years season.
Meaning of life is 42. We have that sorted.
Am I horrible for preferring this to the Iceland trip? This is my kind of "Tele".
As for the Golf; Stands on its four wheels quite healthily, seems to not be too wallowy, has some service history, engine runs sweet. Knackered brakes and an exhaust leak is all, really. I don't expect it to let you down at ALL.
Come on guys, save the estate! Call the guy that fixed Taylor's Mini!
they are my favourite, genuine and charming! Bless u guys!
Yesss new video let's gooo!
Turn this one into a rat rod sleeper car. Like, engine swap it with something more powerful and replace the suspension/exhaust/... under the chassis, fix everything that needs fixing to make the chassis solid and then clear-coat the paint as it is. Fix the inside until it looks decent (the headlining...) and that's it.
I love shitboxes like these, there’s a certain charm to them!
Liking the mix of car and travel related content, great job guys!
It would be a shame to scrap a rare long roof Goof whose one and only owner is now 83. It deserves to live
It's a great car for a road trip. As in go on the one road trip and allow it to finish its' descent to iron oxide powder shortly after that trip.
You should have asked for the best car for a road trip and then daily driving after the road trip. With specifics as to the nature of your usage and your preferences.
What is going on with the bumpers and paint 😂
Absolutely love this, didn't know estate mk 3 golfs existed lol. Hope to see more of this car. Would love to see it resprayed or wrapped and restored
I reckon you need to spend the rest of the money making a true scarlet stallion, maybe a roof rack, some rally fog lights, mud flaps, chunky tyres, and have some fun painting the roof and bonnet with some DIY artwork or something?
Great original video guys, love this channel really making its space in the market
Had a 1991 Jeep wrangler that (kind of) survived a hurricane in worse condition. It had lots of speed holes and had to wiggle wires under the dash to make it work. Your little vw will do just fine. It’ll make it on a road trip, no worries!!
I want you to take this car to the south of France for one last trip to the sea. This is one of the best cheap car purchase videos I’ve seen. So glad you guys started this channel
An M reg Golf Mk3 CL was the car that we owned for the shortest time. Bought brand new we px'd it for a Honda Civic Coupe after only 9 months. Although the engine was a mighty 1.8cc, it was no faster than the 1.3 Golf Mk2 it replaced.
PLEASE!! Can you go on a roadtrip out of the UK? like the Flemish region of Belgium or even the north of France. It is still "cheap" and close to your homeland.
One of the best episodes ever for me, was when you two and Alex visited Belgium, that was the spirit I'd like to see more here.
"Hopefully not just Scotland and the Nurburgring each week..."
PS: The Humour...LOVE THIS!!
Rust spot on replaceable very common fenders and doors. It's fine. Bring a blow torch and light it near all plastic parts and you get them back to black again
For the faded plastics try Black Trim Wax (I think it is from Carplan and about £6-ish from B&Q). We have a plastic planter that was lighter in colour than your bumper so I tried thd black trim wax on it and it stained it black. That was about 4 years ago and it is still almost as black as it was when I first did it.
ngl you can do some nutty things with these, the turbo and manifold of the diesel just straight up fits
I bought a used golf 3 in 2001 and it is still going strong. Easy to fix and parts are no problem to get. There is now 240,000 km on the clock.
Love the channel, all the way from NZ. You guys need to camp in this one!! AI would agree!
very entertaining watch - thanks, keep it coming guys!
Somehow the engine noise reminds me of the noise of the great great grand father of the Golf: the original Type 1 Beetle... quite fitting, but maybe not really what you would want from a Golf🐞😅 - Very much looking forward to the roadtrip episode! Also - I don't remember when I last saw one of those - could be that they are all gone here in Sweden too - or maybe they are so anomymous that my brain simply does not register them... 😅 Thank you for making me remember that they (did) exist...
Long ago my parents had mark 3 estate but that was 1.9tdi that engine can run on cooking oil and won't see any problems ever. You can put a remap on it and ir feels faster 😀
Reminds me of my first car, a '96 1.8 GL. I even tried the peanut butter trick on the faded bumper - didn't work 😅
Spray it with bed liner/Raptor.Really good canvas to try painting... No rust holes atleast. It looks savable.
As someone who loves Peep Show and says 'shit muncher' all the time, the casual dropping of the phrase while i was cutting my nails with this on in the backgrpund caught me off guard and I was weak with laughter.
Very happy to se you two with your mate, even tho he joined online. All 3 of you SHOULD AND MUST go for the road trip fellows !!!
I'd get it mechanically sound, service, brakes and a set of rubber as those tyres look sketchy as hell and run it on the road trip. The body is rough (that's a given) but having MOT checked it, there's no mention of looming structural problems so do a rat rod road trip in it and have some fun.
If you're going to do more of the AI series, it could be worth getting together with some of the other channels and training up your own AutomotiveAI. I don't mean use ChatGPT but get someone to code it for you, and it can use the manuals as well as magazines such as Max Power (Max was a great mag) to get the AI to learn real car stuff :-)
Im sentimental but I like it. I think you or TDC should fix the rust, don’t paint but maybe clear coat it? I like the patina. Maybe even upgrade it and make it a bit of a sleeper! I don’t know. I think it’s cool.
Love it. A service and it's good to go.
Maybe some rust patching with primer squares over it so it matches the boot.
This brings me so much joy as I own a B4 Passat (same generation as the MK3 Golf) and oh man, you're gonna have so much fun with it 😂
I love the mk3 golf estate and im so happy to see it in a video. They are lovely!
I used to have one of them (about 18 years ago) it was the diesel 1.9t version with roof bars and we referred to it as the Ferrari estate!
there is a p reg mk3 golf estate on marketplace for a grand as well it's in quite nice condition but very high mileage! Hope you end up saving this one!
Yes guys! What a beast, got to love a MK3 Golf... I need scarlet steed..
Ah yes, faded red. One of the reasons my Civic got the Pinkey nickname :)
Fix that thing up. I bet that would go forever with a bit.. okay, a lot of TLC. This could be your go to car if you have nothing else going on. A long, ongoing project that would slowly become the channel's mascot. Start collecting road trip stickers on the dash or back window :)
Brilliant video thank you both, no shouting unlike Alex really good
I absolutely love that little motor, hope to see you guys have some great adventures with it
Boys, my father has a 1995 VW Vento (probably was called Jetta in your region) and it drove 1.2 million kilometers on a factory engine with zero engine rebuilds. The body needs work (it's very rusty), but still running! I wonder how much more will it drive until engine unalives itself
I have similar mk3 same interior same rust dont use it nowdays but it still fires up no problem
Hi Guys love your Videos. It would be a very unique idea for a Series: "The last Adventure". Where you guys buy old cars and make a last trip with it before it gets scraped (showing how the cars get scraped too). I thing people would love it. Best wishes from Austria (Vienna).
This was a good video idea, and a really fun video :) I'm excited to see more of the AI car! You guys love money-pits right? It'll go great with the porsche
i REALLY REALLY want those plastic door trims, the ones between the wheels, for my golf! i have a set but its missing a couple of bits and theyre super hard to find in the States
Great choice! Would buy one for sure, it just needs a little TLC :D
At least you have more room than the Porsche. Not sure about the condensation issues though
I had a mint 1996 Golf Estate many years ago. It was firetruck red and had AC and a sunroof. I also had an awful white Golf with a 1,8 AAM-engine with 75 hp.
This is genuinely one of the best video ideas I’ve seen. Props to you guys. Amazing video 🤯
I'm loving this trio of car channels. So enjoy the ride boys and thank you.
Please save this! Jack's commentary is hilarious as usual
Grind back the rust, patch a few holes and a quick respray and you'll be in 3k with a badass rig. Some lowering springs and new wheels? Would be cool
It reminds me the 200 quid Skoda from Epic car show. Both cars come from the same era (and the rust)! It would be even more epic to have a road trip with Scarlet and Felicia!
Brilliant channel, keep up the good work guys.
Ah yes GPT, it likes steeds doesn't it? I will never forget the time when it suggest I write my thesis on the effects of authentic leadership on steed turnover intentions!