to buy or not to buy 150

Hi, I am looking to buy a 150 as the insurance for me is around £600, whereas the 180/225 is around £1200!

I have read the other link on here and most talk about the 225, which I've never drove before, I have had a TT150 before.

I was looking for less than 40k miles, spending between £11k & £14k. is there a change to the 2002 model for the 150 as with the 225?

As I really need to get the 150 for insurance, my search is tricky as I'm looking for a 150 with leather heated seats and upgraded alloys. it is quite hard to find! I have however found one I like, it's 2004, morro blue, cream leather heated seats, 17 in alloys, for £11990 but the mileage is 61k - does this sound reasonable? or would I be better off spending more for a lower mileage car? (it seems you can pay up to an extra £2k for the same car with lower mileage- although none have the cream leather)- is it worth it?

what would I need to do to this ie cambelt change? at 80k? anyone know how much this costs? anything else - would you say go for it and that the car can take the mileage, or go for an older much lower mileage car? but this is a lovely one and cream leather is rare especially in the 150.

I'm getting really frustrated with my search to be honest and don't have anyone to bounce ideas off who knows/likes cars, so some feedback here would be really appreciated.

i will have around £11-12k cash (so the blue one with 61k would be ideal), or I could borrow £1-4k if I needed to spend more.

really interested on the mileage question and the cost of running a TT (my last one was a company car), so tyres, services, cambelt changes etc - would really appreciate.

I would probably be adding around £12-15k a year, and own for at least two years or more (unless circumstances change).


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many thanks

Angie

Can't help on everything I am afraid but from experience of owning a TT180 for 3 years:

You don't necessarily need the upgraded alloys. It's easy to get them on ebay afterwards depending on what you want of course. I wanted to go from 16's to 17's and so many people were fitting the later 18's the choice of second hand 17's was huge.

If a car has been properly looked after 61k is nothing these days. Depends how much of the service history and ownership history you have. We had a 2001 model and took it from 42k to 50k.

How many miles do you do? Running costs of our TT were very low because it was my partners run around. Biggest issue we had was having to replace the quattro haldex drive control unit. £960 fortunately the supplying non franchised dealer paid for it!

i cant say officially that a 150 is bad, but when buing my 180 people constantly said to avoid the 150 like the plague! said it was a bit gutless.
for me (being only 20) the difference in insurance for 190/225 was about £50.

as i said, totally opinion not fact.

Hi I've just bought a 54 reg Moro Blue 180 Quattro Coupe with Anis yellow interior (looks much like your pictures) and amongst other things bought it for the colour and interior as most are black or grey. It also has 18" split rim BBS alloys. Absolutely love it.
Re 150 will it be harder to trade when you want to?
If you have more budget than the car, why not use it on the insurance which should come down- hopefully.
What warranty comes with it? I got mine from an Audi dealer and it has 12 months