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Yep, after 208046 miles and nearly 22 years of ownership, the Golf was taken away today to be scrapped. Too much rust around the cills and floor and a load of other things which needed replacing to get through this years MOT meant it was uneconomical to repair it. So off to scrap heap heaven it goes.

Due to WFH nowadays I was only doing about 3000 miles a year in it, so I'm going to see if I can get away with using the bikes instead and scrounging my dads Merc estate, when I very occasionally need something practical.

Final pic:



In a Herbie style protest, when I went to clear my belonging out from it, the boot refused to open and the alarm kept going off when it was unlocked. I had to crawl into the boot through the passenger compartment, like a racoon rummaging through a fallen over bin

Oh that’s really sad - I think you’d just got this when I joined the forum. And you’d just written off an Alfa 156 which I never knew the story of; your average time to scrap a car has improved now though

An icon of the forum

End of a (very long) era.

A forum constant gone!

That's a good innings and I can't recall you having any big issues either

duncs500 wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:48 pm End of a (very long) era.

Oh noe. Very much what Duncs said. Glad I got to see it though.

22 years and 200k - that's a proper shift.

RIP Golf.

Can we still use the diesel golf analogy alongside an F40?

scotta wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:09 pm Can we still use the diesel golf analogy alongside an F40?

I think it's only right that we perpetuate its memory in this way.

Farewell faithful friend (of the forum).

I never realised this was the source of the diesel Golf reference, I thought it was just a general cliché !

RIP little Golf.

There was actually a diesel Golf?
(I may have known about it many years ago)
Has someone got an F40 in their garage then, that they're hush hush about?

Sorry to see the faithful servant depart. It's off to a happy place, reaching for the scrap heap sky, standing on the shoulders of other long serving former glories. Or to be turned into a cube.

I’m not sure it was specifically that golf that sparked it off, I thought it was the general trend at the time for people buying diesel golfs.

People would post up “what car next?” Threads with wild ideas of Elises, Evos, boxsters or imprezas (remember, it was the early 00’s), then without fail, they’d come back on having bought a diesel Golf.

So then it just became the standard response, knowing full well they wouldn’t buy any of the cars suggested in the thread, the standard recommendation was an F40 or a diesel Golf.

RIP Marvs golf, that’s an impressively long time to have a car - did you buy it new?

Sundayjumper wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:09 am I never realised this was the source of the diesel Golf reference, I thought it was just a general cliché !

RIP little Golf.

I don't remember Marv always suggesting his car as the ideal purchase either - I think the whole F40 and diesel Golf thing was a reductio ad absurdum response to anyone asking for a car suggestion; cheap to run, practical and reliable=diesel Golf, fast=F40.

JonMad wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:34 am There was actually a diesel Golf?
(I may have known about it many years ago)
Has someone got an F40 in their garage then, that they're hush hush about?

Sorry to see the faithful servant depart. It's off to a happy place, reaching for the scrap heap sky, standing on the shoulders of other long serving former glories. Or to be turned into a cube.

Secret Supercar Owner has one.

Yep, owned since new. I wonder if the Alfa 156 would have lasted as long as 22 years, if I didn't write it off it after 6 months of ownership?

Only big-ish items with the Golf were the DMF needed replacing due to broken springs at about 110,000 miles. A load of the wiring for the aircon needed replacing as it corroded severely when it was about 10 years old. It like to shut down the Turbo due to over-booting towards the end too. And the classic window regulator clips failing.

Been driving my dads 2005 E220 Estate while he's been away, it's fairing a little better than the Golf and has now done 240,000 miles. The autobox is a bit too slow witted for my liking and considerably heavier and bigger than the Golf, so feels slow witted by comparison.

Glad I got to take it on a trip round the highlands before the end!

Rip golf.