GTI Value

I have a 86 GTI and pondering selling it for a newer 4 door Golf (95-99).

What I dislike most is the GTI trans ratio where your already at 3k rpm by the time your at 55mph in 5th. I was thinking I'd get a little better milage with a standard Golf trans plus the 4 door would cut my insurance costs a little with 2 teenage drivers in the house...

The car has 120k miles on it but the motor was replaced 19k ago with a 2.0aba block and a new (vw surplus) GTI head that I got from rapidparts.com . All professionally done.

Just about everything except the rear shocks have been replaced...

Front struts, wheel bearings, rotors, tires, shift linkage, radiator, waterpump, belts and hoses, hard brake lines, the soft brake lines were replaced with braided stainless lines. New clutch and shift linkage was installed by the local VW dealer. We did the Blaupunkt ourselves via crutchfield's wiring stuff.

What would you ask for the car?

If you have a car that's trustworthy, what do you do with it if you need a different car for a while... put it in storage? Can you store it and not plate or insure it? My son doesn't have enough $'s to insure it himself and I can't have more than 4 cars on my policy... and I'm not selling my Porsche...

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Chicago Paddling-Fishing
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Unfortunately it's probably not worth a whole lot of $$$ - I sold a real decent 16V GTI for about $1500 a couple years ago. Why not go ahead and swap in a Golf tranny and just keep the GTI trans on the shelf?

You can store a car if it's not plated or insured, but at least around here it can't be visible from the street (i.e. needs to be in your garage.)

nate

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Nate Nagel

I'd say anything dependable and running and looking decent is worth $1000 for sure. With a few other decent mods/maintenance items recently done, probably $1300-1500. Like maybe ask $1500-1600 but accept $1200-1300.

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Matt B.

Check prices for your model on Ebay

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Papa

Yes, thats a good idea. Also, keep it about 2 more years and then if it looks good you can sell it on ebay for more since cars are always worth more on there if they are more than 20 years old.

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Tom Levigne

Jim B.

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jimbehning

: Unfortunately it's probably not worth a whole lot of $$$ - I sold a real : decent 16V GTI for about $1500 a couple years ago. Why not go ahead and : swap in a Golf tranny and just keep the GTI trans on the shelf?

Yea, I figured I'd ask $1500 but was surprised by the dealer... I went in looking at new VW's and they said they could give me $1500 for the trade-in so I thought maybe it was worth more than I thought...

I have developed a attachment to it however...

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Chicago Paddling-Fishing

How hard is that to do? I think the clutch is getting a little weak in my 87 GTI. If I already had the tranny pulled to fix the clutch, it would be an opportune time to do something like this. Any further info would be great.

JW

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cyberzl1

Jim B.

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jimbehning

Where did you source the different gear from?

JW

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cyberzl1

Jim B.

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jimbehning

Thanks for the information.

Sorry about not proper quoting. I post through Google Groups. Sometimes it includes everything and sometimes it doesn't include anything.

You can change the 5th gear to drop the rpms and increase the mpg. Well at least that was true for my 84 GTI. I changed a .91 for .75 and gained about 3 mpg and few hundred rpm drop. I forget exactly what the drop was as I sold the car over a year ago.

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cyberzl1

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