fazza
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Registered: 7th Feb 08
Location: Plymouth
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Been quite tempted by a seat Leon cupra r recently, on a 2004/5 plate
Are they decent motors?
Anything in particular to look out for?
Seem to hold their money quite well
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thegsi
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Registered: 3rd Feb 07
Location: Kidderminster Drives: Evo (you can't afford one)
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Very good cars. Absolutely loved mine and always regretted selling up.
Standard things to look out for are water pump upgrade and cambelt at around 60k
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big eck
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Registered: 20th Apr 03
Location: Tullibody. Drives - Audi B8 S4 & Fiesta Zetec-S
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The are very prone to water leaking through the inner door seals, cheap easy fix tho. The rear washer hose can sometimes pop off as well and you'll only know when you go to wash the rear window lol. Coilpacks can go from time to time but at £30 each is another relatively cheap fix, piss easy to change as well. Having said that I only changed a set on mine once in the 70k miles I had it. One of the best lookin 5dr cars out the wrapper IMO and go very well.
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Corsa_Sport21
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Registered: 13th Apr 08
Location: Leven, Fife. Drives : 205 GTi
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IIRC, they are prone to leaking in a few places. Couple of mates have had them, 1 found the leak coming from the bulkhead, the other couldn't find it, and his had already been sealed up on the doors etc.
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K2 GTi
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Registered: 21st Oct 04
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Mine and my mates both had a leak, used to be a pool in the back everytime it rained. Couldn't find where it was coming in from either .
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big eck
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Registered: 20th Apr 03
Location: Tullibody. Drives - Audi B8 S4 & Fiesta Zetec-S
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The rear issue is deffo the door seals.
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Y869 SRA
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Registered: 22nd Jul 12
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I have a 2001 Leon Cupra, not the R.
Awesomes cars and I can only imagine the R's are even better (haven't been in or driven one).
Defo one of the best looking 5 door hatchbacks you can get.
[Edited on 21-06-2014 by Y869 SRA]
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marklawton
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Registered: 24th Apr 05
Location: Pensby, Wirral Drives:Golf mk4 GTI
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driven quite a few as my mate buys them to break lol. standard ones are ok but you need a stage 2 at about 280bhp for it to go well,
just check cambelt etc as lot get sold with snapped cambelts
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