(Background. I drive a '98 S plate MK4 golf TDI. I've been messing around with Golfs since I could drive so 10 years now and did 2 years in a Volkswagon specialist and I can pretty much do any job required on it)
my manager traded her T plate cougar in for a new Toyota IQ recently.
She said to me the other day I should do the same. I said, "whatever for? it's a diesel volkswagen with 1/4 mil on the clock it'll run forever" she said "yeah, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth now and soon you'll have to start spending loads of money to get it through the MOT's"
Since I have no labour bill and I get parts at trade prices I don't really see me spending loads to get it through any MOT anytime soon. And as far as I remember having known my car for 4 years now it's never needed anything doing to it to get it through the MOT and I've owned it for just over 2 years now. 1/4 million miles on it's 2nd gearbox and original engine with some of the lowest emissions the MOT tester had seen in a long time. I've never had to add any significant amount of coolant to it and apart from the blown gearbox it's never broken down which was partly my fault for driving with a knackered dual-mass flywheel which detonated my diff 60 miles later.
surely with this scheme coming to an end there's going to be a big gap in the 2nd hand car market were there are no cars between 99 and 2004 for example because they all got scrapped
