Just bought a Golf at auction

[wheeler100]

:1zhelp:Just bought a Golf 1.9 GT TDi Mk 4 2002 from auction. Really nice car but needs a few bits done to it. BUT it came with absolutely nothing. No manuals at all, no locking wheel nut socket, just the keys! Bought a Haines workshop manual and have looked to see if there is an owners handbook to download but no luck so looking on ebay. Meanwhile can someone tell be how to zero the trip please - thought while I was waiting I would at least be able to check mileage against fuel! Thanks for any help.

[phil miller]

hi mate welcome to the site, thats a good car you have got, as for manuals they are avi from VW but cost about £45, you should be getting about 50 ish MPG depends how you drive it iirc to reset the trip you press one of the round nobs on the dials themselves, hope this helps mate

[Crasher]

Hold the right button down for a few seconds.

The main dealer can supply an owner’s manual and will be able to supply you with a new locking wheel bolt key.

[phil140]

Welcome to my world! It sounds like the car was in a 'Select' or finance company repo sale hence the lack of bits, they would of been left in the previous owners house as he/she watched their car drive away on the back of a truck. To be brutal i never bother with these cars (even though there are some real bargins) as i always think that if someone has not been paying the drip off on the car then they are hardly likely to spend any money on keeping the car serviced etc. Hence the Service light being on. The locking wheel keys often get pinched on the sale day as people often open the boot on VW/Audi to look at the engines HP (in KW) on the sticker in the wheel well. I know the wheel key is of no value but people cannot help themselves.
Ironically people often get all snooty about buying an ex-lease car but these are the cars that are serviced to death (and we market them that way) and usually at the main agents. One often gets a printout showing every bulb/tyre/windscreen etc. It is always a result to buy one that has just has it's cambelt or dual mass flywheel replaced in the last week.
I often have to do some detective work to get a spare key or service book from the previous keeper, all you can do is send a letter to the address (i always offer to send a cheque for £25 if they send the key/service book etc) and wait for your faith in human nature to be restored. I have had people that have traded a car into a main dealer which has a auction policy call me back really upset saying that they had that car from new and they handed every key/reciept/owners book to the sales person who obviously canned the lot!
As has already been tendered E bay is the last resort although the dealer can often supply a new handbook surprisingly cheaply. With the lack of service history use the numbers on the front of the V5c (logbook) to enter into the mot.gov search history box on the web and you can see all the MOT's from 2005 with the mileage (which should only go one way!) and all the failure reasons and advises etc.

Good Luck,

Phil